I missed The Gruen Transfer night. The two ads on ‘The Pitch’ segment this week were commissioned to put a positive spin on a the effects of a massive oil spill by a hypothetical fuel company ‘Petroleum Brilliance’. The first of the two ads traverses familiar ground, but the second is very, very clever. ABC …
Australia’s most famous public intellectual, leftist and atheist, Phillip Adams, has not renewed his membership in the Labor Party. He outlines his reasons for doing so (not doing so) here. Lest the link disappear in days to come: Removing a PM from office is a job that properly belongs to the electorate. It’s what elections …
Article from The Australian newspaper about the impending cancer treatment of Christopher Hitchens, celebrity journalist, atheist and curmudgeon. Treatment for this form of cancer is pretty awful (as are they all, really). The radiation therapy leaves the throat pretty incapable of swallowing food. This link is included here for news. Any sort of comment linking …
Bettina Arndt was part of the vanguard of sexual permissiveness during the 1970s. Her thoughts on the sexual revolution have matured in a most interesting direction. Here she writes for the Sydney Morning Herald: Shacking up is hard to do: why Gillard may be leery of the Lodge Arndt’s reasons for her reservations about cohabitation …
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