I’ll be going overseas in a couple of days and probably won’t have the time or inclination to post, so all the best to Surfdomites and I’ll be back some time in mid-January.
Happy New Year!
BTW … how TF did Bobby Darin ever get to be a pop star?

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Have you ever seen a less impressive bunch of candidates for high office than the Republicans who hope to be the next President of the United States? I mean most of them make Bush look like Abraham Lincoln. The neo-cons were overcome with sadness when Da Man of Steel got the boot so maybe they […]

So as 2007 rolls to an end, George W Bush’s ‘War on Terror’ is a sad joke, noteworthy mainly for the millions of innocent lives that have been lost or shattered in the USA’s juvenile efforts to impose its will upon other people by force of arms. It’s reached the pathetic stage where the situation […]

Not much of a surprise that Al Qaeda would deny responsibility for the assassination, given that helping destabilise the Pakistani Government is surely much more useful to them than just snaring bragging rights. But what the spokesperson for the Al Qaeda militant Baitullah Mehsud, suspected of being behind the killing, said today is just unbelievable:
“I […]

And this is about as far from the original as any cover could be.

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Is it Christmas again already? Gosh, it comes around quicker every year.
Here’s Nellie McKay with a little seasonal song for y’all.

Our new Labor government has already brought rain to a lot of places that needed it badly. And they reckoned Kyoto was a useless piece of paper, HA!
Merry Christmas to everyone and I hope it’s […]

Every time an atrocity occurs that is linked with Islam, a cohort of nasty bigots in our community emits predictable shrieks and whines along the lines of “where are the moderate Muslims condemning this? Eh? Eh?” Frequently these bitter sneering remarks appear alongside quotes from prominent Muslims condemning whatever the latest incident is, but the […]

Are the extended Wainwright clan the most talented family on the planet? Oh wait, I forgot the Minogues.
Anyway here’s Rufus doing something a bit out of the ordinary. Sorry, I couldn’t find any decent carols.

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Peter Hendy, currently CEO of the bosses’ union the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, used to work for Peter Reith.
He’s just resigned from this position to become Brendan Nelson’s chief of staff.
This demonstrates once again how free and independent the Liberal Party is from influence by third parties … unlike those awful union puppets […]

Two stories about child abuse have been running for most of 2007. One concerned abuse of children in indigenous communities, with a special focus on sexual abuse. The other was about all forms of abuse in NSW, with no attention to any particular groups within the community (although the media attention was much greater and […]