Category Archives: Politics

Turnbull, you goose…

From theage.com.au today: “The case that Mr Rudd misled the house about the communication is not sustained,” he told ABC Radio on Tuesday. An election before the end of the year is looking even more likely.

Andrew Bolt

Calling him a serial skeptic would be too kind. In fact, calling him a skeptic at all would be wrong — he’s just a shit stirrer. Nothing more, nothing less. I wonder what he actually believes? I know what he writes, but if I were to hazard a guess, I’d say that he just writes what […]

“Whatever It Takes”

Andrew Sullivan on the financial crisis: The truth is: we had this coming. We deserve it. And we deserve leaders who are able to tell us that. Yeah, no. I’d like to see any leader in charge of a government try and tell the people that we deserve this and that we should just sit […]

Proof, Pudding, Eating

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.  It’s easy to get carried away in the moment, to make gargantuan claims about the transformative qualities of a person, even before that person has had a chance to do anything other than get elected. Of course, being the humans, we can’t help ourselves — it seems only natural […]

KevinPM

KevinPM. Yep, that’s our PM — trying to be hip and cool, getting hooked up with Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, amongst other sites. One part great; one part cringingly awkward. I guess at least he is trying. I can’t imagine our last PM doing this. Of course, getting setup with all these newfangled social networking […]

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I can’t wait for the US Election to be over — regardless of who wins. It’s been an exciting ride, but it’s become a bit of an addiction. Following all the ups and downs of the campaigns on a daily basis is draining. I’ve stopped watching movies at night to relax; instead I read about the election, […]