August 2006

Kim Beazley Junior would make a better Prime Minister than John Winston Howard. So, however, would the average blue-tongue lizard or, in Bill Hayden parlance, would the average drover's dog.

Bomber Beazley demonstrated yet again in Parliament yesterday his unsuitability to lead the Australian Labor Party back into government. Not only does he blindly accept the nonsensical concept of a "war on terror", but he actually says that Howard pulled Australian troops out of Afghanistan too soon!

World to end on August 22 (Brian Whitaker, The Guardian, 9.8.06)

If it's reported by the Wall Street Journal it must be true!

PS: The comments on this blog entry are actually entertaining. I must try out the recipe for blackcurrant jam before the Apocalypse cuts off the electricity.

Sexually charged music directly impacts teenage sexual habits, new study says - (BP)

Who else but the Rand Corporation could do a report on the impact of music on teenage sexuality?

And who better than the Southern Baptists' media arm for us to look to for reportage of the findings?

The full Randy press release can be found here.

Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

What happens when one of my favourite websites takes the piss out of another of my favourite websites?

And this week's Yo Blair Award for stupid things you say when you think no one's listening goes to: Dean Jones.

"...the terrorist has got another wicket..."

- DM Jones, commenting on Hashim Amla's catch of Kumar Sangakkara off the bowling of Shaun Pollock, TEN Sports, 7.8.06

Seen listed one after the other in the "World" section of today's smh.com.au home page:

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• Britons to stage 'masturbate-a-thon'
• Spiderman's grip closer

Badminton fanatic Dan Chien began noticing a change in his shuttlecocks a few months ago. The feathers seemed thinner and his shuttlecocks were falling apart at an alarming rate.

- opening paragraph of article by Jia Rui-Chong (LA Times), via Lexington Herald, 31.7.06