Bhutto's Assassination
I was shocked yesterday to hear of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, news of which stared up at me from the morning paper with 9/11-like gravitas. I haven’t followed Pakistani politics closely since I was studying in Edinburgh, but my suspicion — and that of most major news organisations, if not the rampaging Sindhi mobs — is...
The Whitehouse Effect
There’s an interesting article about climate change up now at the New Statesman that should set some environmentalist pulses racing. In the face of apparently ‘overwhelming’ evidence, British astrophysicist David Whitehouse claims that that global warming no longer exists — not as a matter of opinion, but as a statement of ‘observational fact’. Apparently it...
New Radiohead Tracks!
Radiohead’s In Rainbows discbox was finally released on Monday, and the new tracks from the bonus CD have now filtered through to teh internets, where they are available for download. The tracklist is as follows: 01 Mk 1 02 Down Is The New Up 03 Go Slowly 04 Mk 2 05 Last Flowers 06 Up...
Hare-Brained Utopianism
Karen Murphy may well be a talented journalist, but you wouldn’t know it from her screed on the ‘death’ of feminism in Tuesday’s Age. Her op-ed (you can read it here) is an embarrassing mish-mash of recycled platitudes, undergraduate sermonizing and hare-brained naiveté. According to Murphy, feminism is ‘dead’, and women are to blame: The...
Come back, Nate!
I arrived back from Lancefield on Sunday afternoon to learn the disturbing news that Nathan Ablett had walked out on the Geelong Football Club. The younger Ablett was always a reluctant AFL recruit, and it appears as if this year’s premiership medallion may have finally snuffed out his ambition to continue playing at the top...
