Drugs are in the news, what with Andrew Johns and all, so here’s a feelgood song about drugs … just for you Friday night clubbers.

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The next section of the book I’ll talk about, still fairly early in the piece, has been one of my favourite parts. I must admit to getting a bit lost as to what was going on in the ward, mainly in regard to how many blind internees were present, but the author thoughtfully clears […]

Not long after Howard wrote a threatening letter to the Iraqi prime minister, Brendan Nelson’s decided to get in on the act. They must get some sort of satisfaction from shaking their metaphoricals fist at somebody knowing full well they’ll probably never even read the letter, let alone take a blind bit of notice of […]

If there was a God, when Paul Lennon - the premier of Tasmania at the centre of the rotten-to-the-core relationship between the State government and Gunns Ltd - pronounced piously that the Federal Government was corrupting the approval process for the Tamar Valley pulp mill, he’d have been struck by lightning and reduced to a […]

Lots of discussion online about Labor’s IR policy, most of it framed in terms of whether it’s a good product to take to the next election. Some of it, however, indirectly raises an important question, which is this: how should employment conditions be fixed in a society like Australia’s?
This question goes to the heart […]

Over at Passport, Mike Boyer quotes from Jane Loeffler’s new piece (subscription required) on the US Embassy being built in Baghdad. While some of the dimensions and features of this Embassy complex have already been discussed widely (its prodigious size for one), Loeffler is something of an expert on embassy architecture and she provides […]

There’s this US senator, see, and he gets arrested for making mild sexual overtures to another bloke in an airport, except the other bloke turns out to be an undercover copper. Apparently even hinting that you’d like to have sex with another adult male is still a crime in the Land of the Free. Next […]

Kevin Rudd announced Labor’s new, improved IR policy today. It allowed John Howard to issue a media release headed ‘Labor’s IR Policy - By the Union Bosses for the Union Bosses’ and proceed to mention ‘union bosses’ eight times in 14 lines. It also provided the space for Rudd and Julia Gillard to use the […]

One of the best and brightest in the right-o-sphere concedes to reality:
Yes, it is time to start coming home, not in a wild panic, but with purposeful deliberativeness. After all, we have other tools in our quiver, apart from bleeding American lives in seeming perpetuity in Iraq, to prevent a full-scale genocide there, or the […]

The Corpse Who Walks isn’t worried about the polls. He thinks Australians are ‘polled out’ … so does that mean the Libs have cancelled Textor Crosby’s contract?
Anyway he’s offered this sage observation:
What you’re seeing, I think, is continual polling by different organisations producing different results.
Sure, there are the results that say Labor’s gunna win, and […]