Did you ever wonder if it was possible to take a really really bad song and make it even worse?
Turns out the answer is “Yes”.

Now we can only ask “Fall Out Boy … Why?”
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We’ve taken a lot from the USA over the years: Ronald Reagan, MySpace, George W Bush, that bloke who used to coach the Sydney Kings, Michael Jackson …
We’ve taken it all in good spirit and refused to bear a grudge.
But nothing in our previous relationship compares to this staggering insult to an Australian icon that […]

Didn’t you enjoy Julia Gillard’s parliamentary performance ridiculing all the material Howard’s mob had produced to promote WorkChoices? I thought it was great … and right in tune with the disgust many people felt at the extent to which Howard and company used taxpayer money for blatantly political advertising.
But just to confirm that at heart […]

Professor Ian Harper is the part-time chair of the Fair Pay Commission, the body which increased minimum wages by a derisory amount last year (a whole $5.32 a week for those privileged bastards on $700 a week).
It turns out he got a pay rise himself last year which was a bit more than the amounts […]

A large poll has found that the vast majority of Muslims don’t actually hate us for our freedoms after all.
… one of the book’s authors, John Esposito, says the survey’s results suggest Muslims - ironically even many of the 7% classing themselves as “radical” - in fact admire the West for its democracy and freedoms.
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The […]

Have the yanks decided to do a Diem on poor old Nouri al-Maliki? Because it’s sure starting to look like Bush’s mob have totally abandoned all those benchmarks that were supposed to be achieved during the short period of calm delivered by Teh Surge.
Instead of focusing on political progress in Baghdad, the latest Bush Administration […]

NSW premier Morris Iemma isn’t doing so well in the polls. In response, he’s promised to ‘work harder’.
Now where have we heard that before?
But Iemma’s case is different to that of the recently-deposed prime minister. Iemma would do us all a favour not so much by working harder, as by doing some useful work […]

A spokesperson for Australia, which attacked Iraq in an unprovoked war of aggression and continues to be part of an army of occupation, has condemned another nation for making a limited incursion in response to a series of terrorist attacks:
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith has told Channel Nine that now is the time for Turkish […]

Here’s a bit of private pleading. It won’t happen often. It’s a copy of a self-explanatory email I just sent to all my friends and colleagues.
Hello friends,
You know I’ve never been one to come bothering you to buy raffle tickets or sponsor me in a walkathon so please forgive a begging email.
For a long time […]

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry watching the scenes in Question time last night. Lord knows I don’t think the new PM or any of the other members of his front bench is any kind of Messiah (expect more posts on that subject shortly). But jesus christ on a cracker, look at the […]