And suddenly we have everyone coming from everywhere thrashing the Gillard education policy by giving their two bobs worth of crap... For example Mungo MacCallum tells us at the monthly:

So Julia Gillard has unveiled yet another grand plan, and this time on her chosen ground of education. And obviously the vast increases in spending on schools and students, and particularly the most disadvantaged, should be a vote winner. But as usual, the communication has been flawed, and in the process she has picked two new fights: one with the premiers and one with the universities.

WHO TO TRUST?

Well, in regard to the sorry saga - the reasons put forward to go to war in Iraq - no worries, no contest...

We were bullshitted first class by government propaganda, media laziness and greed, and some of us not only knew that, but also had the information in hand... But, like on many occasion of dissent or whistle-blowing, who wants to listen in, against the tide of orchestrated hysteria....

Pity western Sydney.

The Liberal (conservative) Party should be called the The Misogynist Conservative Party... 

When Menzies, the father of the "Liberal" Party chose the name for a conglomeration of ultra-conservative parties, his choice was a deliberate misnomer that has conned people ever since.

Map published in Le Monde — mischief by Gus leonisky...

They are often described as “The Unholy Trinity” – a trio of ferociously bright and pugilistic academics who use science to decimate what they believe to be the world’s greatest folly: religion.

Alain de Botton is starting to irk me...

 The news out there has different paces... You get the run of the crap-mill tabloid press at news.com.au and you get the literary essays at the Monthly... One always has a .22 riding shotgun by the side of the computer to shoot the strays.