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Archive for December, 2008

New Year’s Gypsy Punkin’ Eve

Posted in Music, tagged on Wednesday, 31 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Time to do some warm-ups for tonight:

I’m heading out of town for the evening, so a Happy New Year to all.

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Time passes

Posted in News, Science, tagged , on Tuesday, 30 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A popular denialist meme at the moment seems to be, “but it’s cold outside!” The Australian has printed an excerpt of a longer article by Christopher Booker, titled “2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved”. Booker suggests that it has been so cold lately that:
This winter, with the whole of Canada and half [...]

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Nobody hates like …

Posted in Science, tagged , , , on Monday, 29 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In exchange for reporting a CSIRO scientist’s observation that Christmas light displays waste electricity, Graham Readfearn of the Courier-Mail’s GreenBlog gets e-mails. And Al Gore is one fucking fat fucker.

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Modern American Dickens

Posted in Politics abroad, Television & Movies, tagged , , , on Sunday, 28 December, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I just finished watching my DVD set of The Wire. Even in the United States it received less attention from the public than it deserved; in Australia, it seems to have aired (very) late at night occasionally, but to my knowledge it hasn’t been shown regularly or marketed in any way. My discovery of the [...]

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Song for a Sunday

Posted in Music, tagged on Sunday, 28 December, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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The Friday Freebie – now with added trivia!

Posted in Policy analysis, Tech & Internets, tagged , , , on Friday, 26 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Friday Freebie is where I share an online, open-access resource that I think readers might find interesting and useful. Each week, I will introduce a free resource that I think will be useful to teh angry Leftists – books, podcasts, web sites, etc. The aim is to compile a toolkit for understanding and advancing [...]

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The Christmas Spirit

Posted in Australian politics, Politics abroad, Tech & Internets, tagged on Thursday, 25 December, 2008 | 10 Comments »

TrueSceptic posted this in a comment on my old thread, but it really deserves to be on the front page.
Christmas is about peace and tolerance. Few people set a better example of how to contradict those principles than Graeme Bird. In fact, Bird’s achievements in irrational ranting have been recognised by the American blogosphere – [...]

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Peace and Joy

Posted in Site updates, tagged on Wednesday, 24 December, 2008 | 5 Comments »

No matter whether you have celebrated Hanukkah or Midsummer in recent days, will celebrate Christmas tomorrow, or will just be having a quiet couple of days without any religious significance, my best wishes to all for a happy and restful holiday period. Be excellent to each other.
SUPER HOLIDAY BONUS UPDATE: Honeymoon over. Discussion at The [...]

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Bring back the Slatts

Posted in Random, tagged , on Wednesday, 24 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s time.

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Still not sorry

Posted in Australian politics, tagged , , on Wednesday, 24 December, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Phil of the Dead:
My view is that one should not apologise for seeking to ensure that matters that tragically occur that involve terrorist acts are thoroughly investigated to see whether or not there are any implications for Australia.

You know what? I agree with Phil.
But there’s just one problem with his argument about why an apology [...]

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