Iraq’s former deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, has faced court on charges of genocide.
An Austrian dad has been arrested and charged with keeping his own daughter in the cellar for twenty-four years and repeatedly raping her, fathering seven children, three of whom were also incarcerated.
The controversy continues over John Yoo and his involvement in torture […]

After more than seven years in office, George W Bush is determined to prove to the world that rumours of his impenetrable stupidity are false.
After months of intensive coaching in economics by a team of academics from Yale, Harvard and MIT, the president was finally encouraged to go public and demonstrate his new expertise:
WASHINGTON […]

On the one hand, the economy is like a finely-tuned Ferrari. Or at least that was Tip ‘go away I’m still sulking’ Costello’s metaphor; and needless to say he was the only one capable of driving it.
This is borne out by Tony Abbott’s belief that Wayne Swan can creat inflation just by talking about it.
On […]

The possible next president of the United States once again displays either his astonishing ignorance or stunning mendacity, albeit this time through the mouth of an adviser:
McCain adviser Steve Schmidt told CNN’s Dana Bash that the Hamas view was “a fair issue for the American people to ponder should he be the Democratic nominee for […]

Curious to know what those bastards in Iran are getting up to? Well here’s an update: they’ve got ‘training camps, safe houses and weapons storehouses inside Iran that intelligence reports say are being used by the Quds Force to train fighters’. *Cue scary music* oooooo the Quds Force … they’re even more evil than […]

Thanks to the people skills for which he is well known, Tony Abbott is the shadow minister for family and community services. But it appears he thinks he has a treasurer’s baton in his knapsack and keeps making public statements about things that are not quite within his portfolio.
For example:
Swan to blame for rates […]

…. sitting on the wall
And if one al Qaeda boss
Should accidentally fall
There’ll be just as many al Qaeda bosses
Sitting on the wall.
(I make that 84,459 they’ve taken out now, but I might have missed a few. It’s become like the way the Germans announced they’d sunk the Ark Royal about 54 times in WW2 … […]

It takes a brave band to try to cover Led Zep, but O.A.R. & Robert Randolph almost pull it off, mainly by sounding as much like the original as they can … even down to not knowing when to stop (does anybody still listen to those appalling live Led Zep albums? They gave new meaning […]

I wrote a few days ago about the Roman Catholic church’s attempt to inspire the youth of the world by digging up a corpse and transporting it to Randwick racecourse. I have to say I was impressed with the maturity of commenters and glad I hadn’t written some of the things I was tempted to, […]

The Olympic torch relay has provided so much innocent fun for students of the irony of modern life that it’s difficult to know how to describe it all.
First and foremost of course are the Olympics themselves: bloated, commercialised, irrevocably tainted by the endless stories of drug use and super swim suits and all the […]