In The Beginning: The first Prequel?
Prequels. I love ‘em. Stories which post-date the publication of an original work, but which pre-date the events of that work in narrative time. I love the freedom that prequels afford an author to recontextualise a story and re-examine the [...]
Newspoll Monday: Labor 58-42
Newspoll’s out early today. Obviously the journos couldn’t wait to see how Malcolm Turnbull’s gambit of rejecting the stimulus package went. It may well be, as I suggested last night, that he had some similar private polling or a tip [...]
Bloggers journos derivative
In comments on the post here at LP about John Quiggin’s piece on the “picking up the phone” distinction some have made between journos and bloggers, Jack Strocchi asked: When have news journos derived their copy off bloggers? Some people [...]
Borg bombs in Brisbane
The Poll Bludger links to a report in The Australian about LNP polling that shows they’re in a huge mess in Brisbane. I’m not surprised by the report – I was hearing similar numbers back in January about their internal [...]
Malcolm off message or Malcolm in a muddle?
“Centre of attention” oppo leader Malcolm Turnbull wants to have his cake and eat it too. After making the Liberals feel all warm and fuzzy by declaring that the Coalition would oppose the stimulus package, now he’s offended that the [...]
How to spot bad science fiction (or fantasy)
The SFnal post of the year (so far) has to be Shannan Palma’s “How to know if you’re reading a bad book” at the Feminist SF Blog. Well worth reading! A couple of related posts – buying into the whole [...]
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!
"Picking up the phone"
Folks might recall the criticism from Jason Wilson bloggers were subjected to over the Windschuttle/Wilson hoax. John Quiggin has written an excellent post in response to the implicit claim that bloggers are “lazy amateurs”. In so doing, he also highlights [...]
Fires and flood
If you want up to date news coverage of the Victorian bushfires, or the Queensland floods, the ABC has excellent coverage. The short version: 35 people are confirmed to have died, with that number to rise, from the fire that’s [...]
Not so smart meters
It has been outrageously hot in Adelaide, for weeks and weeks and weeks. Well, maybe not that long, but we have had temperatures over 40 for six days in a row, as part of a 12 day heatwave. The nights [...]
Iraq provincial elections spin
A cursory inspection of the intertubes today suggests that the right-wing press across the “Anglosphere” is trumpeting the provincial election results in Iraq as variously “the end of the war”, “a model for the Middle East”, “a defeat for Shi’ite [...]
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