I picked James, age three-and-a-half, up after his first day at preschool in Massachusetts, where we had lately gone to live for a few years.

"Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic - our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens" 1

from politicoz ….

by my friend, Vacy Vlazna

Barnaby Joyce is building on his claim the carbon tax will push the price of a Sunday roast to $100 by saying a single cow or lamb could cost as much as a house.

The government derided his new claim of extravagantly expensive meals as deranged.

from politicoz ….

In recent years there has been no shortage of Labor Party figures decrying what has happened to the party.

Rupert Murdoch faces calls to hand police all his personal emails to senior News International executives amid claims his media empire paid a serving member of the US forces for a photo of Saddam Hussein.

Cronyism and corruption have lived so long amongst humans that it is fair to say they preceded The Bible, where many precedents are recorded.

a question of character ….

My mouth fell open when I heard Abbott’s final flourish in Thursday’s speech denouncing Gillard as unfit for office. I remembered, suddenly, vividly, Tony Abbott’s very own slush fund. Could he too have forgotten?

To discuss “free trade agreements” or the “free market,” we must first identify the theoretical versus the functional definitions of these terms – because theoretical definitions look at what those terms should mean, whereas functional definitions look at what the terms mean actually.

The Deputy Leader of the Opposition wanted to spend this week as a starring character in an investigative drama. She's ended up as the winning candidate on Red Faces,'' Julia Gillard said on Wednesday.

A supermassive black hole, 4,000 times larger than the one at the centre of the Milky Way, has been spotted by astronomers.

from Crikey ….

Julie Bishop on her own legal past: the interview with a partner