Two examples today of politicians refusing to acknowledge the blatantly obvious … for no apparent reason, except apparently an instinctive reluctance to deal with issues that might turn out to be a bit tricky from a, you know, values perspective.
The first example (reported in Crikey) was Peter Garrett’s coy response to questions that asked if […]

Dumped NSW Liberal Party candidate Brenton Pavier has decided not to run against his successor as an independent in next month’s state election.
Mr Pavier was disendorsed as the Liberal candidate for the Labor-held Central Coast seat of Wyong last week after party leader Peter Debnam learnt of a smutty text message joke Mr Pavier sent […]

I’d like to join the PM is expressing condolences about the death of Billy Thorpe:
Mr Howard said Thorpe, who died of a heart attack overnight aged 60, started his music career as a Brisbane teen idol but would be best remembered as a towering figure of Australian rock and roll.
“He earned his great success with […]

Although I’m a bit reluctant to get too caught up in the debate about whether or not Iran is providing arms and other assistance to various groups in Iraq, Rob Farley has a nice compilation of links to stories that chase down some of the emerging details surrounding the IED (and EFP) saga.  More at TPM.
Many claims demonstrated by […]

It’s now official - the majority of US voters want to cut and run. Ignoring the argument expounded so elegantly and so often by J Winston Howard and his supporters in the White House, they want to set a timetable to withdraw troops from Iraq.
A narrow majority of Americans now favor setting a deadline for […]

According to American neo-con pundit Hugh Hewitt, there’s this new book out:
British historian Andrew Roberts has a magnificent new book out … It really is extraordinary, and deserves a wide audience.
Then again we read on the site of a company that presumably would like you to buy the book, a review that includes:
[Roberts’] rambling, disjointed […]

There’s been a vigorous discussion about performance-based pay over at Larvatus Prodeo which got me thinking some more about it. Predictably a lot of the comments reflected the ideological biases that I referred to in my first post, including a bit of good old-fashioned union bashing. Since unions oppose performance-based pay and we hate unions, therefore […]

The Shorter Glenn Milne: 
Alternative PM acts like alternative PM. The cheek!
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There’s nothing wrong with performance-based pay in principle. Real estate agents have employed sales people on performance-based pay since forever. It’s called commission. Sell one house a week and you can eat, sell two and buy a BMW, sell none and raise the kids’ board. The beauty of performance-based pay is that it aligns the […]

Office of the Prime Minister
To: Tony Nutt
Pre-election check list:

Do something about water √X?
Make sure El Nino is weakening √√
Come up with global warming solution √  
Get Hicks charged √X?
Bury AWB fiasco √
Set up lots of dog-whistling opportunities …

Perth native title case √
Firebrand Muslim clerics √
Flag bans at BDO √
Geoff Clarke √
Abolish ‘multiculturalism’ √
Anthony Mundine √
Sudanese […]