Science survey

Following on from my recently-announced plans to establish some regular features on this site – which I have begun to unveil with my inaugural posting of (hopefully) useful free stuff – I want to ask for some input about what you’d like to see.
In particular, I want to start writing some regular posts that make [...]

Read Full Post »

Song for a Sunday

Read Full Post »

People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw winged monkeys

tim describing A-Loew:
for an audience eager to skim shallow views on fashionable issues.

Read Full Post »

Dying for a bargain

And then, amongst all the horrific news of deaths due to terrorism and disease, there are these deaths.

Read Full Post »

Counting the cost – numbers, not nations

The horror of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai is still not over. There has been a lot of excellent reporting, both professional and amateur, about the situation on the ground as well as the people and issues driving the attacks. But there are a couple of threads of reductionist reporting that disappoint me:

The filtering of [...]

Read Full Post »

Vote early, vote often

It’s Victorian council election day. The Poll Bludger had a preview a couple of weeks back; no sign of coverage yet on the ABC Elections page; official info should come through on the VEC site.
UPDATE: Ben Raue at The Tally Room will be tracking the results.

Read Full Post »

MessiahWatch

Apparently, he can sit on the shelf for a few more years.
P.S. It’s good that we have Peter van Onselen around – both to read the mind of the electorate (“MOST Australians would be feeling more comfortable right now if Peter Costello were still running the economy”), and to counterbalance the evil horde of socialist [...]

Read Full Post »

Birthday Boy

Happy 46th to Jon Stewart – here’s one of his finest moments:

UPDATE: I feel the need to include another one:

Read Full Post »

Honeymoon over

The fortnightly Morgan poll shows the 2PP at 59.5-40.5, with the ALP’s primary vote breaking the 50% barrier. Discussion at The Poll Bludger.

Read Full Post »

Operation Iraqi Freedom

It is pleasing that the 1,000th post on this blog is about political progress in Iraq (although it’s a dreadful shame that the news is overshadowed by events in India). While today’s achievement is not quite a match for this fictional New York Times headline, it’s still a step in the right direction:
With a substantial [...]

Read Full Post »