OMG! His middle name is Hussein!
Fox doesn’t seem to like Senator Barack Obama (D-IL). While Hillary’s been on their diss list for many years, they’ve got a new boy on the Presidential nominations block to smear, and they’re off to a flying start. Nice balanced [...]
The tale of ice in the sky…
Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, something rather important happened. Maybe it was was the shock wave from an exploding giant star; maybe it was some other mechanism we don’t yet understand. But around that time, an enormous cloud of gas [...]
It seemed like a good idea at the time
Yesterday in Sydney, a fire just north of the city closed down the F3 Freeway, the Pacific Highway and the rail line to Newcastle for about 5 hours. Hence anyone living north of Hornsby (as I do) was going to [...]
Renters' nightmares
The government’s total lack of a housing policy and its inaction on affordability (housing in Sydney is now more unaffordable than in London and New York) might be coming home to roost electorally. Jane Nethercote writes at Crikey: Buying a [...]
Vanstone gone
The reshuffle has been announced, and Amanda Vanstone isn’t in the new ministry. Mr Howard thanked Senator Vanstone, who has had numerous problems in her immigration portfolio, for her service as a minister since the election of the coalition government [...]
Good to be with you, Max…
There was speculation last year that when Maxine McKew retired from her broadcasting career, she might be headed for an ALP seat. It now seems that she did have some political aspirations – having turned up as a consultant and [...]
Mathematics dying on the vine in Australian universities
Mathematics is a bedrock discipline of university teaching and research. If I was looking to start an all-in, I’d almost be tempted to assert that every useful academic discipline has mathematics at its core…but we’ll save that argument for a [...]
Blog for choice day
Feministing’s Jessica and Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon have posts on the Lynn Paltrow of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and her attempts to have people see reproductive rights through a wider lens. We’re living in a time where pregnant women [...]
When gallant Cook from Albion sail'd
No doubt we won’t be hearing the end of this story about the banning of the Australian flag at the Sydney Big Day Out for a while: Organisers of the Aussie rock festival at Homebush will confiscate any flag or [...]
Dibber Dobber Dolt
Prompted by the current water shortage, todayâs Sunday Age published two side by side articles on a ânew culture of dobbingâ? that is developing in the State of Victoria.One is by Kate Darian-Smith, a professor of history at Melbourne University. [...]
The Long Nights of Londo Mollari
What is the best evah science fiction TV series? The title is an obvious hint for my choice and I shall justify my choice over the fold and also mention a few worthy contenders. I’m sure that everyone will agree.
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