Dubya’s greatest gift
A couple of years ago a reader sent me a marvellous little gadget that counted down to the end of the Bush administration.
Phillip Adams
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Remembering Barak
A BLACK man who saw total catastrophe overwhelm his people. A man of quiet dignity who became a leader.
Palin nee Pauline
AMONG my collection of antiquities are fragile fragments of papyrus that look every bit as old as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Add warming to list of failures
RUDD must crash through or crash on climate.
America the beautiful
THE monstrous crime of slavery. The near-genocidal onslaught on native Americans. The American Revolutionary War.
A job for road shepherd
A LOT of traffic on the 3km stretch from the Gundy store to Elmswood. First, a hare skitters over the road.
Authentic voice in a circus of lies
Why Barack Obama is such a breath of fresh air in the American body politic
The spin has run out of control
ANOTHER era of Republican triumphalism ends with Karl Rove moving out of the White House. “He’s goin’ down the road,” drawled his President in a Texan twang, failing to add to this country’n’western metaphor that Karl was being pursued by a Democratic posse intent on a public lynching.
Auteur unplugged
Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This: True Stories From a Life in the Screen Trade By Bruce Beresford Fourth Estate, 325pp, $39.99
Author of his own demise
One man is responsible for the PM’s decline and coming fall: John Winston Howard
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