Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
I quit Twitter today
Yes, you get out when the punters start buying in, in droves. When the scam artists and product pimps join the party in massive numbers. When self appointed social media evangelists get shrill with their ‘I told you so’s’ – [...]
Toxic waste spreads across the land
Understandably the news of the Victorian fires has tended to suppress news of the floods in North Queensland. No-one is complaining about that. But apart from an inundation the size of South Australia that has lasted now for 8 weeks, [...]
Quibbling at the margins of the CPRS
Of all the supposed flaws in the proposed CPRS, the one that seems to have gained the most traction is the concern that, as Jeremy Sear puts it “the more you sacrifice at home – the more some corporate polluter [...]
Queensland Election: Day Four
It wouldn’t be a Queensland election without drama. Pauline Hanson redux, a slather of independents contesting LNP heartland seats, beatups about gaffes, the awful musical stylings of the Borg, billionnaire magnates suing pollies for defamation and cancelling press conferences, and [...]
The future of the Auto-Industrial Society and of manufacturing
It probably won’t have escaped anyone’s notice that the Obama administration’s very large to do list includes the future of General Motors and Ford and the closely linked issue of climate change and energy efficiency. Funding has been cobbled together [...]
More quality punditry from The Australian
Today’s wrong, irrelevant, reactionary bile column editorial calling for ‘more hot air’ on emissions trading: This is a complex issue that we cannot afford to rush, despite Senator Wong’s determination to push her plan through parliament by mid-year. Moving early [...]
Skipper, I have the conn…er…skipper?…able seaman?…work experience kid???
We haven’t had a warporn thread for a while, as the government’s Defence White Paper is still in limbo. But it seems that various bits and pieces are starting to emerge, so to speak. The ABC is reporting that the [...]
Queensland election 2009 – Day Three
Lots of reading – over at Pineapple Party Time – about the state campaign. Possum looks at the Borg’s economic gaffe and the solar panels the wrong way round that Mt Cootha LNP candidate John Pollard has installed on his [...]
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