I’m assuming you mean pics of the party BTW. Images of me lounging around nude watching 30 Rock are probably best left to the imagination. For my sake as much as anyone’s.

I didn’t put on any clothes, nor go outdoors (fortunately, I suppose). Lying down and watching DVDs was as much as I could handle.

Saturday night, needless to say, was fantastic.

I watched part 2 of that “Intelligent Design On Trial” series on SBS tonight.</blockquote)

I missed part one but part 2 was revealing. The mendacity of the ID crowd is well documented but to see them condemn themselves via their own words was fascinating.

Oh and don’t play cricket on days of high heat and humidity. You’d think I’d learned that lesson by now. At least we one an exciting game in spite of players dropping like flies as the energy was drained from them.

But see a daughter run down pitch to embrace her dad when he scored a fifty was a lovely moment. Though the feeling of goodwill quickly subsided as we really needed their wickets (they were the opposition’s opening bats).

Class traitors or deluded anti-Communists?

Now that’s a party game for the whole family. Put your drinks down, turn out the lights, and let’s get denouncing.

I also got to see a bit of the Homeless World Cup, purely by chance. Nigeria v Philippines, a very one-sided game but the Philippines got a big cheer when they scored their only goal. I agree Fine, the Fed Square stadium was an excellent idea. Wish I’d seen more games!

Could there be a walk on role for a dog?

Re Manning Clark: His insight of the Protestant Ascendency, Irish Catholicism and Enlightenment values making up the core of White Australian history, esp. colonial European history, still has value, I think. (Though some of the Irish Catholics later went a bit mad and joined the Liberal Party. Class traitors or deluded anti-Communists?)

Enough.The week-end.On-line, off-line taking notes from Peter Oliver’s Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion. Also reading some of Higginbotham’s The War of American Independence (published 1971) Still considered one of the best military histories of the American War of Indepoendence, and, having read quite a few of them now, I can see why. Though I suspect the best might be John Ferling’s very recently published Almost A Miracle.
Evenings, watched TV. Quite enjoying Mountains on Sat. night now, it took me a while to take to it. The Bill. Sunday night, the Book show on ABC at 6pm, the doco on Romans in Africa at 7.30, the thriller on ABC. A Good Murder. Quite an uncompromising end. Amazing how these shows set us up to accept the murder of the baddies. That mother.
Over the weekend had the kids from next door in on the computer a bit. And their mother. We discussed Rudd’s economic stimulus package, how we’d spend it. Reckon my friend will get about $10,000 she’s got so many kids. She gave a bit of a smile and said, yeah, a lot of people have said that. Anyway, this isone Aboriginal moher I know is not going to piss it up oer gamble it away. Stuff Barnaby Joyce. Scratch a Lib or a Nat, and you’ll always find a racist somewhere. (Shut up, Paul.)

Patrick White in a minor role

As if.