I picked James, age three-and-a-half, up after his first day at preschool in Massachusetts, where we had lately gone to live for a few years.

The Sydneysiders on the North Shore are depressed... Business is slack, shops are deserted and going broke, street malls are empty, the summer weather so far has been crap... On top of this, most of the North Shore is the electorate of Tony Abbott. This by itself would be depressing... and more depressing still — for many of the North Shore Siders Tony is Jesus of Nazareth, walking on water and coming to save Australia from its Labor sins...

"Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic - our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens" 1

from politicoz ….

by my friend, Vacy Vlazna

The sharply divided US Congress has been able to agree on one thing at least - that the word "lunatic" should be banned.

Barnaby Joyce is building on his claim the carbon tax will push the price of a Sunday roast to $100 by saying a single cow or lamb could cost as much as a house.

The government derided his new claim of extravagantly expensive meals as deranged.

Dear Brittany...

from politicoz ….

In recent years there has been no shortage of Labor Party figures decrying what has happened to the party.

Rupert Murdoch faces calls to hand police all his personal emails to senior News International executives amid claims his media empire paid a serving member of the US forces for a photo of Saddam Hussein.

Cronyism and corruption have lived so long amongst humans that it is fair to say they preceded The Bible, where many precedents are recorded.

a question of character ….

My mouth fell open when I heard Abbott’s final flourish in Thursday’s speech denouncing Gillard as unfit for office. I remembered, suddenly, vividly, Tony Abbott’s very own slush fund. Could he too have forgotten?