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Sunday, December 31, 2006

On the death of Saddam

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Long time readers would know that I agree with Roger Simon's point . Captain's Quarters ' take on the execution is fair enough...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

Waiting for the apology

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A few weeks ago the Fairfax press , and indeed the Murdoch press , both ran with a story that that John Howard and Alexander Downer had ...
Friday, December 29, 2006

Speaking of the weather...

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Maybe it is just that by mid-life, really hot weather starts to annoy everyone much more than it did when they were younger. Whatever the r...

What you may have missed in my absence

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Here's a list of some interesting stories from the last week: Let me do the panicking for you : If the Large Hadron Collider or an aste...

Hitchens goes to Iraq

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There's a short Slate piece by Hitchens about a recent trip to Iraq. Good reading, as always.

What I got for Christmas

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They're boxer shorts, if you can't quite tell.
Saturday, December 23, 2006

That Letterman Christmas song

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I don't know if I have missed the 2006 edition yet, but David Letterman has had Darlene Love singing this song every Christmas for a dec...
Friday, December 22, 2006

The Guardian greens your Christmas

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It's hard to find the right word to describe this article in The Guardian about how to have a green Christmas. Seeing it's from En...

The incredible shrinking country

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Japan's population to fall 30% by 2055, study finds The story is from the Japan Times. The longer term projection is more surprising (...
Thursday, December 21, 2006

Comparative religion

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For a provocative take on the differences between the great religions, you can't get much better and more succinct than this paragraph f...

The Libyan HIV case

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There is one thing the recent reporting about the Libyan conviction of Bulgarian nurses (and a Palestinian doctor) for infecting children ...

Bound for the "odd news" columns

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From the LA Times : A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intend...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Hanukkah wars

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A pretty funny column in the LA Times about the "war on Hanukkah". An extract: These should be good times for Hanukkah and the J...

Escape via niqab

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A pretty remarkable story in The Times about how a British man wanted for murder was apparently able to leave the country by wearing the ni...

The polonium lesson: don't trust the BBC and ABC

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This time last year, Radio National's Science Show (run by the rather Left leaning Robyn Williams) had a show in which the risks of a ...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

A Loewenstein low

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Glamour anti-Zionist boy Antony Loewenstein got a short segment on Radio National breakfast this morning, and a transcript of what he said i...

Back to a favourite theme - toilets in Japan

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This article in the Japan Times deals with that fascinating issue: why men's toilets in Japan are "open door" in a way Wester...

Bryan Appleyard interviews Michael Crichton

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There's a good interview of Crichton by Bryan Appleyard in the Sunday Times . I also recommend again Bryan Appleyard's blog .

Hitchens' latest on Iraq

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From Slate, Hitchens' latest column sounds a sensible analysis. His short columns manage to add much more usefully to the debate than ...

A Christmas related post

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I thought this article from The Times was interesting and relevant to the season. It's about buying real estate in Finnish Lapland, in...
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