Since Ratty’s demise that grant has been reduced to $30,000 p.a.

The very dungeon stones weep for these victims of reduced largess. I don’t know how flesh and blood can endure such treatment.

But perhaps that funding reduction formula was based on the proportional decrease in the number of murders of Aborigines, as counted in Windschuttle’s oeuvre.

If so, then Windy may be under some pressure to revise his numbers upwards.

What a moral dilemma!

Whatever it is, I’d like to see it increased. Either that or the ABC could offer them their own show, called of course The Outsiders.

“The abuse, not uncommon at Larvatus Prodeo, is the price Australian dissidents pay for speaking out.”

A very, very, very, low price. What a cut-price commissariat we are.

I’m actually pretty boiled about the fact that this lot of fusty wormtongued fogeys (I’m not ageist, some of them are young fogeys) want to claim the title dissident.

Real dissidents in repressive regimes around the world have lost digits, lost limbs, lost years of their lives in political prisons, had family disappeared or tortured and raped in front of them; while this lot of puling bloated wretches want to use dissident as a vanity epitaph for their taxpayer-subsidised masturbation. Puke.

You hear that, Quadders? You don’t get to call yourselves dissidents. You haven’t earnt it. You are just common garden-variety whingers.

The CIA, the previous paymasters of Quadders, is no longer complaining about the poor quality of their literary offerings.

That has to count as progress, doesn’t it?