Guest Post by dk.au
With Mark’s blessing, I thought I’d check the view from on top too. Two weeks out from the provision of the Palmer Inquiry to Minister Vanstone — which is set to uncover, amongst other things, that Cornelia Rau didn’t receive [...]
Gay for a day
Well its official, Bill C-38 has passed and all Canadians will have the opportunity to marry someone of the same sex. Yep, from now on (as the marriage monopolists like to say) it won’t only be Adam and Eve, but [...]
Paid in Bourbon
…isn’t every apprentice’s dream: Seventeen-year-old Mark McGrath didn’t know what he was signing – only that if he didn’t sign it he would lose his apprenticeship. Next thing he knew his host employer refused him days off and paid his [...]
when I'm 64
On Meet the Press last Sunday [link to document file]: PAUL BONGIORNO: IPSOS McKay also polled nationwide on who voters would prefer to replace John Howard if he retired at the next election. 27% Peter Costello, 29% Kim Beazley and [...]
She walks in beauty, like the night
‘With the first lighting of a cottage candle a man becomes an entirely new being, and moves in a totally different world to that of daytime. He is now born into a world whose god is a rushlight, and a [...]
Lancing the Labor boil
It will be the longest lancing of a boil ever. The slow release of a series of Mark Latham diaries, biographies, remembrances, commemorative plates, T-shirts, coffee mugs and show bags is set to do Kim Beazley and the Labor Party [...]
One Rule…
Shanahan on Saturday: But old-fashioned appeals to man the barricades are not the answer for a modern Labor Party… Yet Labor has continued with Latham’s class-envy rhetoric over private schools and tax cuts. Class envy, class war bad. Shanahan on [...]
Good Science, Bad Science
Third in a series of an unknown number of essays on the politicization of science. If new, please read An Intercourse on Orgasm and Postmodern Critical Thinking for background. Rene Blondlot’s life ended in 1930 amidst shame and despair. In [...]
Teen Sex Uncut
I’ve just been watching Big Brother Uncut. We had a very vigorous debate here last week about the ethics of BB this year, and the sexual ethics of BB. Some commenters rightly argued that Hotdogs’ actions in particular constituted sexual [...]
Posts I Should Write, But Never Will
Apologies to my fellow LP guestbloggers for my absence, I had intended to post during my brief sojourn to Sydney but I was waylaid by various things; work, family, friends. I was glad to go back to the place I [...]
This Looks Like A Job For Jamie Oliver, USN
From the Sydney Morning Herald, a story which morbidly recalls Jamie Oliver’s recent ‘School Dinners’ series: Several hundred recipes prepared for the inmates at the camp [Guantanamo Bay] are to be published next month in The Gitmo Cookbook, including such [...]
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