Blogging The Victorian Election Despite a Really Bad Case of Mondayitis
Bipartisanship Rules OK Well, no it doesnât actually. But if you ignore the rhetoric in the election campaign, and concentrate on the behaviour of the major parties, one thing looks pretty clear. Whoever wins in eighteen days time, itâs going [...]
US mid-terms basics
The Democrats require 15 seats in the House to gain the majority. Dems haven’t held a House majority since 1994. All 435 House seats are up for election. The Democrats require 6 seats in the Senate to gain the majority. [...]
Reviewing intellectual property in the UK
A UK thinktank, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), is calling “for outdated copyright laws to be rewritten to take account of new ways people listen to music, watch films and read books.” (BBC News [link] ) Intellectual property [...]
Sentenced to hang
Stage managed show trial ends. Predictable result. Nasty dictator found guilty. American Iraqi adventure a success. Invasion worth it. Shiia happy. Kurds happy. Sunni angry. Mid term election Tuesday. Co-incidence co-incidental. Iran wins. Partition last resort.
Rats, sinking ship etc III
Dick Cheney, stating that the administration’s Iraq policy is “full speed, ahead”: “We’ve got the basic strategy right” Richard Perle, leading Neocon hawk and former adviser to Rumsfeld and Bush: “The levels of brutality that we’ve seen are truly horrifying, [...]
More move on madness
I recently wrote a piece for Crikey on the idiocy and abuse of the Queensland government’s move on laws (reproduced here). Now it would appear that Yobbo has run into some trouble with similar provisions in WA – detailed at [...]
It’s all Bill Clinton’s fault
I can’t help wondering if the frequent Currency Lad Clinton blamin’ on sundry blog threads has inspired something over in America. Not just the GOP’s “don’t blame us for Iraq/terrorism/Al Qaeda, it’s all Bill’s fault” refrain, but now, a satirical [...]
Midterms polls (and other links)
There’s quite a neat aggregator of polls on closely contested races in the US midterms at Slate. The Senate numbers come with a graphic that is updated regularly to show how the individual polls translate to the composition of the [...]
“like press releases at ten paces”, apparently
It seems like my preferred option of going for a twilight bicycle ride was considerably more interesting than the televised leaders’ debate for the Victorian election. The general consensus was something between a “dull nil-all draw”, in the words of [...]
Pope Benedict Beer
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/benedictbeer.jpg" From the Curt Jester.
I won’t add my condemn to your condemn…
The quote is from Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. We’ve been mentioned in dispatches over at Catallaxy. rog writes: The problem is that whilst LP may on this occasion condemn Hilaly they have yet to condemn the Islamic fundamentalism of [...]
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