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Thbbbpt!

(Go Ahnuld!)

Update:

Nice try, Phib, but I still beat you.

The Commander brings up the whole, you know, suckiness of politics, which I suppose I should comment on. I know some people want to stay home to “teach the Republicans a lesson” or vote for Democrats because the Dems in reddish states are more conservative than [...]

Categories: Politics

Wheat & Weeds - Have Your Limes & Mint Handy

It’s never past the season for Mojitos.

Categories: Politics

Telegraph - Home front By Philip Johnston: A policeman’s blog is not a happy one

I spent part of the weekend reading David Copperfield. Not the novel, mind you. This David Copperfield is the pen name of a serving police officer who has just published a very revealing book called Wasting Police Time, based [...]

Categories: Politics

Broadcasting & Cable - Women Scarcer On Evening News

When former Today host Katie Couric arrived at the anchor chair of the CBS Evening News just six weeks ago, much was made of the fact that she—unlike Barbara Walters, Connie Chung and Elizabeth Vargas before her—was the first solo female nightly-news anchor. But that [...]

Categories: Business & Media

The other day we were having a conversation about some of these people:

BBC - How Borat hoaxed America

I think it would be better “Who Borat hoaxed in America” since he’s done his share of hoaxing in the UK.

Categories: Entertainment

SMH - Wraps off Phar Lap mystery

Scientists have confirmed the legendary Phar Lap was poisoned with arsenic, but say there’s no way of tracing who was responsible. In a groundbreaking study made public today, scientists at the Australian Synchrotron Research Program examined Phar Lap’s hair and concluded the champion racehorse [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

The Australian - Pacific split over Canberra campaign

Yeah I bet they are.

DIVISIONS have emerged among Pacific nations over how to deal with Australia’s hardline push to stamp out corruption in island states.

Err, it’s “hardline” to be against corruption? And child rape…?

Fiji and the grouping of small island states attending this [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

ABC (Oz) The Shallow End - Model mum?

Oh dear! Hot on the heels of reports of their pending nuptials, Pete Doherty’s uncle says supermodel Kate Moss is pregnant.

Oh dear.

Oh well, I’m happy for her. It’s just… him.

Categories: Entertainment

Telegraph - Prince champions apprenticeship for master craftsmen

It is an age when everyone seems to know a cheap Polish builder whose skills are not necessarily all they might be. This week, however, the Prince of Wales will buck the trend by launching a new scheme that champions traditional building crafts. [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

The Western Standard - Altered States In Michael Ignatieff’s Canada, you, too, can create your own nation, by Mark Steyn

So Ignatieff [who despite apparently spending his adult life in Britain and the US is number one to succeed Paul Martin and who recommended that 'Quebecers say it 'with pride,' 'Le Quebec est ma nation, [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Since killing the rest of the cable, the TiVo’s finally started to record Jay Leno most nights, which we’ve been watching a lot of. One of his better lines from this week was:

“This isn’t an election; it’s an intervention!“

The Chicago Sun-Times - An election Foley-equipped with frivolity, BY MARK STEYN

“WASHINGTON [...]

Categories: Politics

LGF - BBC Stars Admit Insanely Obvious Bias

As if we didn’t already know. As if it weren’t as obvious as a smack in the eye. We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News. It was the day that a host of BBC [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Courier Mail - US bans Vegemite

THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging Australian expatriates there.

Screw the Australian expatriates here. What about the rest of us.

The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate, which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.

Yet another thing [...]

Categories: Food

AP - Atheist [because that's all she deserves to be remembered as, like any other peculiar old lady with a funny will] gifts pontifical school in will

ROME - An Italian journalist and self-described atheist who died last month has left most of her books and notes to a pontifical university in Rome because [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

I’ve been wiling away a few hours this weekend reading all the Mark Steyns I’ve fallen behind on in my erratic blogging. So there might be a bit of a rush of them today.

National Post - The man who likes to poke the world in the eye: Journalist Mark Steyn says being offensive has [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs