Temptation

The Dendrobium Margaret Thatcher:





Must really add Singapore to that new itinerary..

Still in the sticks is Hicks

From the latest

Bulletin

:

On Wednesday, the US Defense Department announced that three more former "enemy combatants" - an Algerian, an Egyptian and an Uzbeki - had been released and sent to Albania. The three men, now classified "No Longer Enemy Combatants", were sent to Albania because the US could not guarantee their safety if they were returned to their countries of origin.

This seems rather akin to getting Rodney King-ed by the filth and then them gently protect your forehead as they place you into their Black Mariah.

After years in illegal detention enjoying hospitable sleep deprivation and other non-torture interrogation methods now we object to them possibly being deprived of their rights if we returned them? Marvellous.

They are now "No Longer Enemy Combatants"; this was just a phase.
"Insurgent Until Graduation" if you will......

Impending Doom

Grey hair number three.

Call in the marines/Dr Freud/Vidal Sassoon etc.

Please advise.

The hidden humour of economics

cvm: I'm drunk on power/economic liberalism .

I can't believe i just wrote this:
"Aid is approached as something which has a genuinely benevolent thrust "

Coming soon to a videostore near you: Jeff Stryker vs. The World Bank.


rheiner: JE LOVE IT.

'thrust'

"My that's an impressive austerity package"

Defining leisure

The 80s gave so many wonderful things but the best of these was windsurfing. When will this brave new century find it's leisure activity of choice?


Please do not say:
1. Croquet : Not ironic thank you very much. It never was. Not even in Heathers.

2. Lawn bowls : those poor old dears who their whole lives have wanted some qt on the greens are now faced with hilariously intoxicated young adults. Puhlease.

3. Tenpin bowling : i want this to be the answer but it never is.

Cynicism

These SMH pictures of the possible effects of water level rises from global warming
present an interesting opportunity.


Bear with me.



If we figure out where the water levels will get to (assuming high/long term increases in sea levels as a result of the melting of the polar caps) we can commence buyingproperties on the soon-to-be-seaside et voila! A waterfront property on the new Sydney Harbour for the price of a Penrith terrace...

My Last North Korea Rant

Before we respond to North Korea, let's look hard at humanitarian implications of sanctions against one of the most impoverished regimes in our area.

Regardless of what we might think about Kim Jong-il having nuclear weapons, surely we should go to the bargaining table without economic crimes hanging over our heads. This test only destabilises the region if we let it.


* I promise to stop talking about lil' Kim and his big bombs now.