Austrolab republishes a post from ALS Blog that includes the following:
It is easy to sympathise with the social-democratic desire to protect the most vulnerable. But does anyone really believe that nearly one in five of Australians are vulnerable and can’t look after themselves? That is about 4 million people!
Now I have no argument with anyone [...]

There was another bumbling performance by the opposition tonight, with Brendan trying to explain the latest position on climate change. Don’t ask me what it is because I didn’t pay attention.
What I did notice was that Julie Bishop stood about 20 cm away from him and stared at him all through the interview with a [...]

I spent 10 weeks in the USA in 1991/92, taking a leisurely drive from Maine to California. I found many things to like about the place, only got robbed once, and decided the people were on the whole a hospitable albeit somewhat inward-looking bunch. There were a lot of things I didn’t have time to [...]

Straight shootin’ John McCain is asked a nice straightforward question: “If you’re president and Nouri al Maliki asks you to get the troops out of Iraq, what would you do?”
Apparently it’s too straightforward for maverick McCain, who refuses to answer. He just assures us all that he is so privy to Maliki’s secret thoughts, he [...]

Remember Guantanamo Bay? Yes, that’s right, the place from which the righteous left rescued Our David by walking across the bridge. Or was that how they saved the Aborigines? All that feelgood fervour in the Howard years is becoming a blur so quickly. It’s all in the past now of course … in fact the [...]

If your kids have trouble understanding what ‘ubiquitous’ means, just tell them “You know, that ‘Hallelujah’ song” and they’ll know exactly what you mean.
Is the same thing going to happen with all Leonard Cohen songs?

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I rather liked this:
Republicans think the United States is the salt of the earth and that American hegemony over the rest of the world is not only justified by our great virtue but necessary to our safety. People this full of hubris are incapable of judgment. People incapable of judgment should never be given power.
The [...]

Stephen in comments on my last post tried to defend the fitness of John McCain to be president and in the process, demonstrated that the tactics of smoke and mirrors which have marked the Bush presidency are being enthusiastically adopted by his wannabe successor and his supporters.
Stephen claimed that ‘McCain made several thousand pages of [...]

Yo readers, no one wants the Government to be the arbiter of artistic merit.  Except for politicians and certain borderline-deranged AM radio listeners, who want the Government to be the arbiter of absolutely everything.
NSW Community Services Minister, Kevin Greene:
“No one wants the Government to be the arbiter of artistic merit, but where there is a [...]

Is it politically incorrect in the USA to point out that a candidate for the presidency appears to have early signs of dementia? I mean how obvious do the signs have to be before it’s acceptable for serious commentators to mention them? Maybe the answer is “Never”; these days the crude rude blogosphere can be [...]