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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Not sure what is going on in Spain and Luxembourg

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Found it at Business Insider , which notes: The divorce rate is still high in the U.S. at 53%. But Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, the Cze...

About the Piketty claims

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A good commentary piece, I think, on Piketty is here in The Guardian .
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Fantasy crime and consequences

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Mob kills man for 'stealing genitals' in Burkina Faso | The FRANCE 24 Observers I had assumed that "penis stealing" was ...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Just too many guns

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Even in a State With Restrictive Laws, Gunman Amassed Weapons and Ammunition - NYTimes.com Mass murderer  Elliott Rodger was able to acqui...

Moby Dump

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Whale defecation good fertiliser for fisheries

Yet more on Frances

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Frances Abbott Chosen ‘On Merit’ To Help Lobby Fed Govt Regulators | newmatilda.com OK, so Frances may have given the same gushing review ...

Co-payments and their raison d'etre

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 If I have understood Henry Ergas in the Australian correctly this morning, the fact that the Abbott government's co-payment does not go...
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Fear of Piketty

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The fear of many Right wing, libertarian inclined economists and commentators that Piketty is right about how capitalism and the rise of ine...
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Sunday, May 25, 2014

Seems about right

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David Marr on the budget of a hidden man | The Saturday Paper David Marr can be annoying, but his general take on Tony Abbott as summed up...
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Paris envy

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Over the past couple of months, there seem to have been a multitude of cooking shows about Paris or France, and I'm getting sick of it b...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Northern beauty

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I was very taken with this photo of Alesund, Norway, which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald last week in a travel story about the incre...

Parts of Africa still pretty dark

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Witch doctors arrested after albino woman murdered 'for potions' in Tanzania - Africa - World - The Independent Police in the Simi...
Friday, May 23, 2014

New Matilda expands the Frances Abbott story yet again

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Some terrific journalism being done by New Matilda that shows exactly why Abbott should have disclosed the "scholarship" that his...

Go Tom

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Gee, when I recently complained the lack of promising (US) summer films this years, I had forgotten about the new Tom Cruise science fiction...
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No showers - but lots of bacteria

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I can't see it ever becoming popular, but it's interesting to read of this woman's account of her month long experiment of just...
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Aren't there any cranky critics who have just had enough with superhero movies?

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Is it just me, or a sign of old age, that I really, really care not a hoot how good an X Men movie is reviewed - I still won't be seeing...

As spotted on twitter:

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Tingle on the Budget

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Coalition gets a brutal lesson in policy on the run Interesting to note a few things from Laura Tingle's article: Who is responsible...

Sympathy misplaced

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Graham Richardson  this morning in the Oz: I should also make it clear that I am appalled that the media in this country should give publ...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Bacteria everywhere

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Yet another case of bacteria turning up somewhere rather unexpected in the body: The placenta, long thought to be sterile, is home to a ba...
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