I’ll put my hand up

John Cole asks:
Is there anyone dumber than right wing bloggers?
 

No.

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Deed Poll

I’m going through a pseudonym reassignment process. I’ve dropped the ‘P’ from the front of my name – it was an obscure reference to Terry Pratchett (while another such reference exists on the ‘About’ page for this blog), and people keep reading my name as ‘phobias’ instead.

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Meet the stupids

Andrew Bolt posts a story of a wrongful conviction as an argument against the death penalty. The comments from the Boltheads are where things get truly frightening. Apparently, not only does capital punishment have a strong deterrent effect (at least in the United States), but wrongful convictions are no longer possible because of DNA evidence [...]

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Supraliminal messages

Maybe Andrew Bolt organised this as payback for Leftist editing bias on Wikipedia?

[credit to tigtog for the picture]
I have trouble seeing a genuine sinister intent behind this. My best guesses would be fatigue-induced accident or temporary moronicism on the behalf of a News.com.au online staffer.
Darryl Mason reports a rumour that Malcolm Farr hit the roof.
Anyway, [...]

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Good Bloody Grief!

The Internets are melting! The GG says that the blogs say that the Coalition is making a comeback!
At least Samantha Maiden got one thing right:
The Australian’s analysis of the result is always wrong.

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New stuff

I have added some bits and pieces to the sidebar on the blog’s main page. These include some AddThis buttons for feed subscription and social bookmarking, as well as some external RSS feeds. I am drawing election news from Aunty’s web site, and I am also showing the conversations on other blogs I am tracking [...]

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The LP

For those who live in a cave on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Larvatus Prodeo is broken due to spam (perhaps a sophisticated high-tech anti-Left scheme engineered by Richard Alston?)
The counter-insurgency is hiding over here.

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Broadband – narrow and shallow coverage

Helen Coonan shouts, “hurrah!” – we’re ninth among OECD countries in broadband speeds. She is referring to this report.
Problems? Stephen Conroy sees some:
“These figures and this statement by the OECD that these figures are just based on departmental estimations demolish [Communications Minister] Helen Coonan’s claims that Australia has leap-frogged up the table,” he said.
“Helen Coonan [...]

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Talk about politicising the military

A sordid little soap opera is going on between Glenn Greenwald, the personal spokesman for General David Petraeus and (possibly) a skilled computer hacker who has managed to create perfect forgeries of US military e-mails. The latest installment of the saga begins here and then continues here. The uniformly stunning intellect of the Rightist blogosphere [...]

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Propaganda

Champagne Labor advertising:

Tip of the hat to Darryl Mason for finding this.

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