ETS politics gets interesting again?
Just as a lot of folk are discarding the whole idea of an ETS in favour of a carbon tax, the politics of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is about to ramp up a notch, if this report is accurate: [...]
Bitchery in the blogosphere
At the risk of starting another meta-blog thread, the recent post about the new Bolt/Blair stoush site ‘Pure Poison‘ got me musing in the following fashion: 1) Why is it that, generally speaking, men are the bitchiest denizens of the [...]
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
The impending Queensland election and the state of the debt
Various newspapers described Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser’s budget outlook review on Friday as providing a “trigger” for an impending poll. That’s something of a misleading formulation. But the budget position does give state Labor – perhaps paradoxically – a political [...]
The Oscars and The Wrestler, The Reader and Milk
Having never been a fan of Mickey Rourke’s acting skills and finding his recent revelations about his personal demons a tad Oprah, I was hesitant to go see The Wrestler. However, I was swayed to view it by memories of [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Issues from the fires
It appears that the final death toll from the Victorian bushfires will not reach some of the the earlier estimates of around 300. Good news as this is, a loss of 208 lives and thousands of homes obviously justifies the [...]
CPRS – what's going on?
How weird. The government decided to ask the House of Representatives Economic Committee – which of course is controlled by the government – to look into the CPRS. For what purpose, it wasn’t at all clear. But, just as suddenly, [...]
I won't add my condemn to your condemn XXXIV
Well it’s been over a fortnight so it must be time again to condemn. Here’s a 34th open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat this year so far? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and other phenomena need [...]
Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt vs. Crikey: Upscaling the blog wars or big yawn?
Skepticlawyer reports on the incorporation of various interlinked Blair/Bolt watch blogs into Crikey’s blog network [Crikey story here]. Tim Blair seems to have taken the bait Pure Poison laid for him. Skepticlawyer comments: One entirely legitimate attack that the MSM [...]
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