Entries from October 2006
Asking the Tough Questions
the question of whether the IAEA can be trusted to be “continuously objective and impartial”
Pfff-hahahahaha
Opinion Journal - Secretary of State ElBaradei The U.N. arms inspector goes soft on Iran, but hard on Congress.
I don’t know why I bother, but I feel like we’re due for a UN-Sanctioned-Mahdi-With-a-Missile Update.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
My Mecca
BBC - Food festival has peace on menu
One of the world’s most famous food festivals is celebrating its 10th anniversary by trying to promote not only good taste, but peace. The Salone del Gusto - the Exhibition of Taste - is the showcase of the Slow Food movement, which was [...]
Categories: Food
Somebody Get Me a Fainting Couch
Last night Bubblehead rode in as my knight in shining top-secret-submarine-coating to tell me that the Vegemite Ban is a hoax.
Categories: Food
Rove Strikes!
CNN - New Jersey court recognizes right to same-sex unions
Why do these things always happen two weeks before elections?
Categories: Politics
Herding Cats
Australian Sheikhs Feiz Muhammad and Taj Din al-Hilali hand women of the world a breakthrough in identifying the problem with the opposite sex!
Update (10.26):
Good gracious it got beyond just Tim Blair!
Times Online - Muslim cleric triggers outrage by blaming women for rape
(Yeah like it’s the first time)
Australia’s most senior Muslim cleric has triggered [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Adventures in Media Consumption
I’m sensing a trend. There’s a feeling, as if… as if… As if maybe people are getting a little fed up with the media. Not that they’d actually stop watching, or anything. No that would be too productive.
LGF - The Forced Conversion That the Media Forgot
I’ve noticed something very [...]
Categories: Business & Media
Jenin Kids
Brett McS sent me this last night:
YouTube - Australian in Palestine account of children suicide bombers
I haven’t seen it anywhere else (not even the MSM?!), not even the blogs. So, do watch it.
It’s a little difficult, when the kids are talking, listening to Arabic and trying to follow the subtitles in French, and then [...]
Categories: War and Peace
The Chancellor, the Black Watch, and the Edinburgh Fringe
The Times - The war for Gordon’s ear, by Magnus Linklater When the Black Watch marched past, heads held high, they had a message for the Chancellor
I WONDER WHAT was going through Gordon Brown’s mind as he watched the 3rd Battalion of the Black Watch swinging past him through the streets of Kirkcaldy on [...]
Categories: War and Peace
The Horse Says “That’s Okay Boss, I’m Not Thirsty.”
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The caption:
Oct 24: Lawrence Boyden scans his father’s book of racing tips, which includes the recipe for the tonic that my have killed Phar Lap.
…while his horse looks on warily.
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Whaddya Mean Our Legislators Don’t Like to Make Tough Calls
Wheat & Weeds - Reining In The Court
As is often the case when serious matters are at stake, the part of the story that hits the papers isn’t the most important or interesting. Here John Yoo argues that the military commission bill Bush signed recently was not a capitulation to the Supreme Court [...]
Categories: Politics
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXIV
The Wisdom of Henry Woodhouse
The Times - You can stuff your courgettes, from now on it’s chip butties to go LA Notebook by Chris Ayres
I REMEMBER vividly the first time I offended an American. I was living in New York at the time and feeling a bit homesick, so I dragged the US citizen in question to an [...]
Categories: Food
And Now For a Little More of the Hungarian Revolution
Opinion Journal - October 23, 1956 The Hungarian Revolution: impotent, poignant, personal. BY PETER NÁDAS
The Hungarian Revolution was the last European revolution. A bloody end of the romantic and idealist history of the long age of revolutions, an end painful and embarrassing for everyone. The age is over, and this is why the Hungarian [...]
Categories: History
For You Modern Art Fans Out There
I really must post the whole thing:
The Joy of Curmudgeonry - Silly Old Trout
In the opinion of Germaine Greer, the better kind of art is that which one cannot collect. Therefore, since one can collect the works of, say, Hogarth, Rembrandt, Turner, or Caravaggio, she must think them necessarily inferior to works such [...]
Categories: Art and Literature
But It Comes So Utterly Out of Left Field
LGF - Muslim Non-Victims
This is going to come as a shock to anyone who’s been taken in by CAIR’s deceptive, incessant victimhood routine, but crimes against Jews still outnumber crimes against Muslims by a ratio of seven to one: American Jews top hate-crime targets.
Categories: People and Current Events
