“AdSenseBoy”, you are such a fucking genius… not. Could anybody be so moronic as to send spambot comments to somebody’s genuine blog, where they are forced to expend valuable time deleting the illiterate rubbish people like you send out, inviting them to do the same? We’re the victims of your scamtastic activities, you complete douchebag.
Oh, [...]

A while back George Negus introduced a story with the following German-style joke:
What’s the difference between a communist and a capitalist?
The communists have admitted they were wrong.
ROFLMAO!! 
These days it’s getting a tad hard to deny that the “new right” has been wrong on just about everything, and with the American bank nationalisation package before the [...]

The fear of children is not a new thing I suppose.  Many myths, and early 70’s horror films, centre on our subconscious resentment of the fact that we have to get old, die and be replaced by our sprogs.
This is not one of our more noble traits, being irrational & unfair.  Just as we were once [...]

As someone with testicles, one sometimes feels that one’s gender is not treated particularly fairly by TV ads.   You know what I mean.  An 18 year old son incapable of communicating other than by grunts is tricked into eating bran by his little sister, who is dressed in a green and gold sporting outfit and reading [...]

While you guys are all having fun entertaining Peter I have to go overseas and do some work. Back second week in October. Be good.

I’m stunned by the nature of some of the commentary about the collapse of the US financial system, and specifically by suggestions that the pain people are enduring is comparable to that experienced in the Great Depression. It demonstrates how secure people feel in developed nations in the 21st century and how little they comprehend [...]

I sense a certain unease in comment threads about the future economic outlook. Friends, please unknit your brows and resume those cheerful smiles we know and love. The next president of the USA has the answers:
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said the nation’s financial system “needs some shakin’ up and some fixin’” at a [...]

The new leader of the opposition is ‘humble’.

Oh BTW from earlier:
Costello backs Nelson’s leadership
Way to go out of public life Pete … a loser ’til the end.

Hot on the heels of the government’s decision to reform (public) education comes this damning evidence of the CRISIS IN OUR SCHOOLS:
This year, for the first time, all Australian school students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 undertook the same assessment in reading, writing, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and numeracy. The results in this report [...]

Gosh, Australian politics is exciting. Did you watch the news tonight? Brendan is declaring the Liberal leadership open tomorrow (I heard that person who made the smartarse crack about not knowing it had ever been filled, I’ll deal with you later).
In the party meeting Brendan was angry. He was impassioned. He was angry and impassioned [...]