Two resurrections in one week are hard to get your head around. In a stunning return from the wilderness, Kevin Rudd will open the batting for Australia in the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge next month. Shane Watson becomes prime minister again and will lead Labor to the election.

 

 

Kerry in the Mideast: Tilting at Windmills

By Mitchell Plitnick...

 

A Vatican official was arrested Friday by Italian police for allegedly trying to bring 20 million euros ($26 million) in cash into the country from Switzerland aboard an Italian government plane, his lawyer said.

TONY: Hey Ruddy, you've just robbed me of the most sadistic pleasure to knock her off her perch... Three bloody years on my arse I waited for this...

RUDDY: What 'bout me?... Three and a half years in purgatory, she put me in... Even after I stabbed her in the dark with the help of Laurie Oakie... and on many other occasions after that... I was trying to give you the gig!...

TONY: why would you do that?

RUDDY: So I could punch you in the gonads from behind...

This is a repeat of part three of the (unabridged unedited) introduction to the book "The Age of Deceit" by Gus, a work still in progress.... 

from our friend Dr. Vacy Vlazna … 

from the shovel ….

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he was well over half way into watching the latest Superman movie Man of Steel before he realised it was about a comic character and not his hero and mentor John Howard.

 

Julia Gillard says she has no regrets about calling the election so many months in advance and believes Labor can still win, despite repeated polls showing the party is set for an historic defeat.

Never before has Australia’s political coverage been so poorly regarded by the public; Tom Orren says this reputation is well-deserved — and here he explains why.

You will often hear uttered, from women who don’t subscribe to the whole feminism package but who nevertheless wish to add their voice to the gender equality debate, that well known phrase “I’m not a feminist, but…”