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NEWS BRIEFLETS
* Look for the story of America’s secret nuclear tests in the Sudan to appear in an Alan Ramsey column next month.
* Do you own an old mobile phone? The type that was only mobile if you were capable of carrying something the approximate weight of an oven? They’re worth money.
* Kofi Annan is deeply concerned about nuclear terrorism. Which is interesting, coming from a guy who heads an organisation that can’t define terrorism
* Check the ad at the top of this Guardian promotion: “Many US citizens think the world backed the war in Iraq. Maybe it’s the papers they’re reading.” Of course, many US citizens think the President served plastic turkey to soldiers – what paper do we blame for that?
* Intellectuals everywhere! The Sydney Morning Herald has a list of them; many you wouldn’t trust with simple household tasks. Weirdly, I was among those invited to select these people, although I ain’t got no fancy schoolin’ and use books to prime barbeques. What’s with Hilary Charlesworth, Clive Hamilton, Michael Heyward, Gerard Henderson, Hugh Mackay, Kim Santow, and Jullianne Schultz refusing to reveal their brainiac choices?
* A neo-con on the Arab Street! Meet Jihad Pundit, a pro-liberation Australian Leblogger. Added at left.
Tho come to think on it, doesn’t that sound like the name for the crappiest SUB ever? The Daewoo Sudan…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 13 at 11:33 AM • permalinkHere’s the Guardian‘s next promotional slogan: “Many Britons thought Americans gave a rat’s ass who we wanted them to vote for. Maybe it’s the paper they’re reading…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 13 at 11:36 AM • permalinkSUB = SUV
So, what does that “preview” button thingy do, anyway?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 13 at 11:40 AM • permalinkKofi Annan is deeply concerned about nuclear terrorism. Which is interesting, coming from a guy who heads an organisation that can’t define terrorism
Calling all trolls. Homer Paxton, Bryla, Mr. Bingley. Here’s your chance to tell Kofi that his concerns are entirely too exaggerated and without any basis whatsover. Tell him that besides he squandered his chance to do something meaningful about it. That is, if “it” actually existed. Which it doesn’t. Kofi just made it up.
It is all a construct, a fiction, to allow him to wage war against the innocents of the world. Comparing him to Hitler, Genghis Khan, or better, Lucifer, the bringer of the coming, nay, impending Apocalype, will make your point clearly.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 03 13 at 11:43 AM • permalinkDo you own an old mobile phone? The type that was only mobile if you were capable of carrying something the approximate weight of an oven? They’re worth money.
During the 1970’s there used to be a TV detective series called Cannon. Cannon had a car phone in which he could call anywhere from, yes, his car. So cool. Of course, it was so big it was permanently attached and looked like it easily made up half of the weight of the car. But it was still cool.
I wonder if that has any value?
If one wanted a means of communication that could fit within a pocket, one had to travel to Stardate something-and-other (no, I don’t know what the star date was, I have friends that do, but I don’t and never will) and become a member of the USS Enterprise. Amazing how US technology beat that expectation by a few centuries.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 03 13 at 11:50 AM • permalinkwronwright — And of course we all remember the ST episode where the Federation was destroyed because Kirk flew through a tunnel and lost his signal…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 13 at 11:57 AM • permalinkDo you own an old mobile phone? The type that was only mobile if you were capable of carrying something the approximate weight of an oven? They’re worth money.
Woohoo! At last, some
suckercollector to pass my old AT&T monster to.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 03 13 at 11:59 AM • permalinkKofi Annan is deeply concerned about nuclear terrorism.
And I’m worried that when (not if) nuclear terrorism occurs, it will harm those of us who don’t deserve it.
Instead of harming the wussie UN appeasement weasels, who so richly do.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2005 03 13 at 01:55 PM • permalinkWell, that’s interesting.
Andrea, what makes the paragraph after the quoted text appear in smaller type, but not the quote itself?
Didn’t look that way in preview. :-(
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2005 03 13 at 01:59 PM • permalinkConsidering the fact that most Americans think the Guardian is a super hero and if they know otherwise would probably use this particular paper to line the cat box with…perhaps the Guardian should leave what US citizens think alone. The last time they tried to influence the thinking of American people they helped Kerry lose Ohio.
Jesus, Tim! No problems with all of your choices for the top egg-heads bar one - Barry Fucking Humphries!?!??
Michael Visontay (the writer of the article) also reckons that “a cross-dressing satirist (Barrie Humphries) remains our most incisive cultural critic”.
Humpries is about as incisive as a butternut pumpkin up the arse. The man is so out of touch with the reality of Australia that he cuts a sad figure these days and is incomprehensible to most modern Australians. When I try hard to remember growing up in the 50s in very waspy Australia, I can see what he is mocking - but the satire is tired, outdated and irrelevant. We don’t live in that country any more and haven’t for a long time.
All I can see these days is a sad old foppish queen with a desperate need to feel culturally superior.
TFK
PS: The first 4 of the Herald’s 10 are all fools. I don’t know why Gerard Henderson did not contibute but he should have been on the list. He is worth 100 Robert Manns in his erudition, perceptiveness and genuine morality - and his outstanding contribution to our national political and cultural debates.
Right, you see, the papers I was reading talked about how we had not just the support of the governments of Britain, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Poland, Italy, Spain and many, many others—even Tonga. Backed by actual troop committments.
Now, it may be we didn’t have the support of public opinion in all those countries. But since the European Union sees no need to have its decisions actually have the support of public opinion in even its member countries, I see no reason I should give a damn about what European public thinks, either.
Posted by Warmongering Lunatic on 2005 03 13 at 09:39 PM • permalinkAdam B - Thanks for the link. No doubt the Guardian is searching for a respected institution that has proof Tony Blair eats his young.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2005 03 13 at 10:01 PM • permalink“Wow. Thanks for the link to Jihad Pundit. Neocon views aside, Khalil is hot.”
Yay! Someone thinks I’m hot! Red-letter day.
Posted by Jihad Pundit on 2005 03 13 at 10:13 PM • permalinkBarbara: you have to put a paragraph line (hit the enter key twice) after you close your blockquote. I’m not sure why not doing so screws up the formatting; it might be the convert-line-break settings.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 03 14 at 12:49 AM • permalinkGoldsmith, don’t let the picture fool you. I’m mostly harmless.
Posted by Jihad Pundit on 2005 03 14 at 01:53 AM • permalinkRe: Intellectuals everywhere!
Fairfax film critic Paul Byrnes thinks that Margo Kingston is one of Australia’s leading intellectuals!.
Here is my list (for what its worth)
Keith Windschuttle
Geoffrey Blainey
Paddy McGuinness
Hal Colebatch
George Pell
John Stone
Greg Lindsay
Gerard Henderson
Dyson Heydon
Clive JamesI think the following Australians leave the Herald’s list for dead as far as genuine intellectual excellence and actual achievement go:
Harvey Norman
Bon Scott
Kevin Sheedy
Mr Squiggle
Rolf Harris
Merv Hughes
Bruce Ruxton
Wilson Tuckey
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Ayer’s RockPosted by Jim Geones on 2005 03 14 at 07:49 AM • permalinkHarvey Norman gets a guernsey and Norman Gunston doesn’t?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2005 03 14 at 09:40 PM • permalinkMy list (not in any particular order of merit)
Peter Coleman
John Hyde
Frank Devine
Miranda Devine
Greg Sheridan
Barry Humphries
Tony Abbott
Hal Colebatch
Piers Akerman
Tim BlairPosted by Susan Norton on 2005 03 14 at 10:23 PM • permalink
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Driving the Sudan Sedan… Well, thank God for the professional journalists and all their editors and fact-checkers, sez I.