Sunday, January 23, 2005
NEWS BRIEFLETS
* Italy’s Joy of Knitting reports: “In the opening shots for the electoral campaign (there will be regional elections in April) Silvio Berlusconi, whose specialty is to get into trouble for stating the obvious, said that communism brought nothing but poverty and death. As was to be imagined, all hell broke loose.”
* Gordon King is concerned about his daughter: “For example, when playing Zoo Tycoon 2 she devises the most elaborate methods to muster then trap crowds of park visitors, after which she releases various combinations of predators to attack and kill them.”
* No matter where on earth you live, there’s still time for you to make it to the Hole in the Wall Huckfest Weekend.
* Who will the new ALP leader be? Nobody cares, but Quentin George has all bases covered just in case. (Kevin Rudd is doomed, incidentally, since he’s just won the endorsement of Mark Latham/Wes Clark/John Kerry teenage fanclub member Chris Sheil.)
* You will enjoy Mohammed’s reply to New York Times credibility drain Sarah Boxer.
* Outstanding Britisher Harry Hutton: “In my opinion it is better that thirty innocent men go to jail than that a single villain gets away with something. As luck would have it, the last five or six Home Secretaries have all enthusiastically agreed with me.”
* I once spent a year studying at the University of New England and several subsequent years trying to figure out why. Looks like I dodged a bullet.
* Goodyear is now manufacturing replicas of the company’s old competition tyres:
