Politics

from the Melbourne Herald Sun The Greens manifesto backs official supply of the dangerous drug ecstasy as well as state-sanctioned heroin and marijuana sales at what it calls appropriate venues. The ecstasy policy suggests distributing the drug to users while providing official information detailing the dangers of the drug. About 15 people have died from [...]

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SMH’s Margo Kingston publishes an interesting letter from a journalistic colleague staying in the US which sheds light on the experiences of an Australian observing the 2004 Presidential elections first-hand. It’s good to see that, contrary to the nagging of my own self-deprecative skepticism, it appears that a hemispheric buffer zone hasn’t affected my own [...]

Continue Reading I wonder ’bout his insides. It’s like his thoughts are too big for his size

There is for all practical purposes no real difference in the stated objectives of Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry. It’s tweedle dee or tweedle dumb. Why waste your vote on one or the other when the effective end result would be the same? Yeah, but why Mel Gibson? If you’re pleased with the way things [...]

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I’ve always viewed American politics from the role of bemused outsider watching a trashy reality tv show, sort of half-heartedly willing on the more leftist political elements purely for the sake of fuzzy trans-Pacific ideological affinity, but I’ve just today come to the conclusion that taking a closer and more involved analytical stance would be [...]

Continue Reading Woo Demmycrats! Woo!

There’s this strange cover of grey smoke-like matter covering the sky and partially obscuring the sun. And it seems to be depositing a strange, viscous liquid. Experimental sampling by direct touch and taste has determined the liquid to be non-poisonous, non-corrosive and pH neutral; most likely water. Water falling from the sky. How odd. Is [...]

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America once again felt good about itself – except the poor who hunted game for food on payday, writes Tony Horwitz. In this week of eulogies for Ronald Reagan, we often hear that he made America “feel good about itself”. No one asks whether boosting the nation’s self-esteem was a good thing. Reagan’s unashamed wielding [...]

Continue Reading Let’s bury Reaganomics with its founder

I’ve mentioned a few times that Prime Minister John Howard was passionately against the idea of the notion of gay marriage. Here’s what he actually said. “You’re talking here about the survival of the species,” An adult said this. An adult in charge of a democracy of 20 million persons. Who thinks that granting equal [...]

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The ABC’s Media Watch does a good job (as usual) at debunking the bullshit surrounding Opposition Leader Mark Latham’s alleged raunchy alleged bucks night alleged video sprung onto a voracious press by Howard’s cadre of muckrakers. As expected, the pious drivel came thick and fast from a wide range of media sources (the Murdoch News [...]

Continue Reading The smoking booby-tassel

I just watched what must have been a 2-minute loop of footage of John Kerry making a brief toking gesture on Fox News, shown with ultra zoom-in and repeated at varying speeds. You Yanks are a riot.

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from Sydney Morning Herald A 10-year federal ban on assault weapons expires today in the United States, allowing Americans to buy AK-47s and Uzis at their local gun stores. “George Bush gave police officers his word that he would keep the ban,” Kerry said, “but when it came time to extend it, Bush’s powerful friends [...]

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