Ahh bugger that, first the f-word and now the c-word…
The C-Word Ain’t What It Used to Be – Arts & Living News Briefs | Newser.
What would Eric think?
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Kenneth Davidson sums its up rather nicely…“policy is developed between key ministers and industry lobbyists representing mining, private heath insurance, religious and independent schools and employer groups….It is clear that the Rudd Government is not prepared to undertake reforms to reverse the Howard government’s policies, which created two-tier health and education systems where access is [...] LIFEembedDrawGallery(29912); Ted Kennedy: His Life and Times – Photo Gallery, 26 Pictures – LIFE. My first temptation is to delete the BBC classification of Business in the headline since this is much more than a business matter but I’ll just make this observation instead. Murdoch jnr sums up his address with these lines – “for a better society…the only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit” – [...] Ok let’s try this idea. You have a business, its core activity consists of people stringing a few words together based on information received. They, the stringers-of-words, do this stringing thing regularly and they also spend more than the average amount of time reading other stringers-of-words. Then there is a certain accumulated body of knowledge [...] According to Uncle Fatty (I know insensitive language alert) – “It is important to bear linguistic history in mind when one attempts to nail down what irony is, as it clears up why the word means specifically things phrased to bury connotation behind denotation. Irony has nothing to do with something coming back to haunt [...] Peter Costello please stay in Politics, you have such an honest and unbiased view of the world and it is very selfish of you to deprive the wider community of your obvious talents. Of course the ABC is a warren of left wing bunnies which is why your former colleague and culture warrior Little Johnny [...] No sooner is the LA Times talking up collusion in the US newspaper scene and we see the same sentiments expressed here in Oz. Fairfax probably has one of the better news site in Oz but who will pay for it? Especially when the ABC will probably be obliged to continue providing their content for [...] Apparently “what’s required for serious — which is to say expensive-to-produce — journalism to survive is that all the quality English-language papers and news sites agree to charge for Web access and then mercilessly sue anyone who makes more than fair use of their work without paying a fee.” That’s according to the Tim Rutten on [...] Bill Leak from the Oz Very witty. But why is it funny? The Stern Review examines the evidence on the economic impacts of climate change itself, and explores the economics of stabilising greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Stern Hu is currently facing a very uncertain future. Meanwhile, Martin Furgeson’s future is looking bigger and brighter. Labor is certainly [...] |
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