fake news

It pains me to see the MMMMM (mediocre liberal media) at a loss (I was going to say wanking) about the "fake news" that sank Hillary — the Saint of Lybia and provider of good news of more wars for the patriotic press — the chances of getting elected as big Cheddar in chief.

Even the Saturday Paper gets on the act of shedding a few tears.

But "fake" news has been with us since the days of Adam and Eve, and many people still gobble that story about our two ancestral idiots. No wonder we're dumb.

no-class

The Federal Opposition is calling for Attorney-General George Brandis to be sacked over a "secret" deal struck with the West Australian Government to claw back nearly $1 billion from the collapse of Alan Bond's Bell Group.

from Crikey …

NSW anti-corruption commissioner Megan Latham resigned today, forced out by Premier Mike Baird’s newly passed legislation weakening the Independent Commission Against Corruption ’s powers.

doing the cancan

ambassadoring....

next frame

the persistence of war...

hairy...

Just over two years ago I was in New York working with Larry Summers and Ed Balls to prepare a report for the Center for American Progress on inclusive prosperity. One morning I had the opportunity to walk the High Line and on the side of an old brick building was a large advertisement which read “the French aristocracy never saw it coming either.”