Saturday (Xmas) Salon
Oops – somebody forgot to set this up for midnight! Happy gatherings and feastings to you all, and please use this open thread, at your long-weekend leisure, to discuss anything you like.
A Christmas for the rest of us
Frank Costanza: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another [...]
On not doing Christmas shopping
Although there are signs of Christmas retail panic at JB Hi-Fi, you could play a game of cricket in a couple of department stores I’ve strolled through in the last couple of days. On cue, we’ve had very noisy calls [...]
All I want for Christmas
Your regretful online conduct in the Great Blog Stoush of 2005, and that purchase on your March 2007 credit card statement, might soon be not-even-a-digital-memory, thanks to new data privacy statues being cooked up by the EU, known as ‘the [...]
Saturday Salon (Christmas Edition)
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Happy Christmas from LP!
We hope you all have a wonderful, safe and enjoyable day! xo
’tis the season of secular consumerism
… and I’m a bit over all the red holly/green conifer/snow imagery. Here’s two songs that have a more sunburnt country feel to them: Eric Bogle’s Shelter gives tributes to our land “dressed in green and cold”, and here’s Tim Minchin’s White Wine in the Sun, about how it’s possible to enjoy Christmas traditions even when you’re not religious, because in the end it’s all about family:
Spend! Spend! Spend!
The telly news led with rhetoric suggesting the February retail figures showed that spending “dried up” after the December stimulus, and the opposition chimed in with their claim that “the money was saved” (which apparently is terrible, even though it [...]
Stimulated
Possum at Crikey: An interesting thing happened on the way to Christmas last year — the $10.4 billion Economic Security Package not only worked, but worked nearly exactly as Treasury had forecast it would. Peter Martin: “The bonus cheques had [...]
Lazy Sunday! (post Christmas edition)
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? And indeed since Christmas Eve? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all! The New Farm festivities kicked off with a [...]
I won’t add my condemn to your condemn XXXI (Christmas edition)
Well it’s the night before the night before the night before Christmas so it must be time again to condemn. Here’s a 31st open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat this week so far? Which evil political, cultural, social, [...]
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