Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
What's (still) wrong with the Ernies
The Ernie Awards for 2009 were awarded last nght, with the Gold Ernie being awarded to religious wingnut Danny Nalliah for his comments blaming the Black Saturday bushfires on the Victorian Parliament’s decriminalisation of abortion in that State. Why are [...]
Iran's new hole in the ground
Iran, Germany, and the five permanent security council members have sent delegations to a a villa outside Geneva to discuss developments in Iran’s nuclear program. Given the weather’s going to be nice, I suppose there’s likely to be worse ways [...]
Disasters
There appears to be no particular link between the earthquake on Sumatra and the earthquake-induced tsunami that devastated Samoa and surrounding Pacific islands, except the death and destruction both caused. The Sumatran quake is reported to have killed 1100 people, [...]
Fair go?
From The Australia Institute’s ‘Between the Lines’: The Australia Institute has recommended that the unemployment benefit be increased in line with community standards, which basically means providing for the unemployed as we do our pensioners and disabled. Another way of [...]
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