Internets saved?

Poor Conroy – it looks like someone convinced Xenophon that kiddie pr0n is great.

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Thought for the day

It’s nearly a week since John Howard entered the political fray with two op-eds about the Howard legacy. Yet there’s barely been a stirt – from what I have seen, only Janet Albrechtsen has said much about it, and John Hewson’s writing has been getting more attention.
What is it with teh Left and not being [...]

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That science segment

… you know, the one I talked about doing regularly ages ago?
Well, it’s over here instead.
While some of your more low-brow blogs are busy down in the gutter with Tim Blair and The Australian, we’ll do our bit to get on with the task of writing about scientific evidence and the honest exchange of ideas.
UPDATE: [...]

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Quinella

After Whitlamesque comes “the worst since McMahon“.
Which analogical cliche will the Opposition pull out next?

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Honeymoon over

Having been out of action while the last few polls rolled through doesn’t seem to have mattered. The latest Newspoll shows the 2PP at 58-42 [PDF of results]. Rudd’s popularity is up; Turnbull’s is down. Turnbull’s net satisfaction is now down to +5, so he is approaching the point where just as many people are [...]

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Song for a Sunday

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Freebie Freeze

I’ve been too busy, between the Pure Poison launch and some work commitments, to plan a freebie for this week. Scheduled programming to resume next week.

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Non-running commentary

John Winston Howard: Australia’s most reserved former Prime Minister.
To his credit, he shows good academic nous – getting two publications out of the one set of ideas by writing one about the past and one about the present.
To his discredit, he’s left the legacy project a little later than one typically would – but I [...]

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Humongous Green and Red Satan

A new blog joins the Crikey stable. Four of us – plus you, I hope – against the “writing class”.
Visit. Read. Join in!

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Bushfires and climate data

RealClimate has a guest post by David Karoly looking at the climate factors that contributed to the severity of the recent bushfires, and examining the evidence (or lack thereof) that global warming is a contributing factor in producing such conditions. Data, evidence, argument – the way an examination of causal mechanisms should be done.
On the [...]

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