Tag Archive for 'Liberal Party'

Moncktified!

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I call the process Moncktification, and it can be applied to any picture that is wanting of eye-googliness. So, Lord Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, is visiting Australia to give talks on climate change, and also presumably to have his desiccated penis massaged by his staunchest allies in Australia. Alan Jones – who, in [...]

Political Silliness on the Increase!

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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Forget Andrew Bolt – graphs on climate change are so 2009. Tony Abbott’s recent attempt to soften his public image with lewd and nigh-incestuous photographs has triggered a flurry of research into the alarming trend of skyrocketing silliness on the conservative side of politics. The findings of this [...]

Free Tractors for All!

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The appointment of Barnaby Joyce to the Shadow Finance portfolio may well be Tony Abbott’s biggest mistake for the coming election year. Regardless of how many times the guy reminds us all that he’s an accountant, Joyce has the heart of a market interventionist. He has proven, time and again, that his loyalties lie only [...]

A Puckette of Tools, a Parliament of Fools

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Uh… Some kind of a pun there. On Miller Puckette, whose achievements warrant more than the measly Wikipedia entry about him. Perhaps it is appropriate, for its humility mirrors that of the man himself, who named the Max programming environment after yet another amazing pioneer of computer music, Max Mathews. Max for Live came out [...]

Not quite tough enough, somewhat tougher than expected

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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The post title is a loose reference to one of my favourite Penny Arcade comics. So it is with the Australian Government and their divisive stance on asylum seekers. I only caught up with the day’s unfurling chaos later at night, with Lateline, having spent the day both [...]

Here We Go Again

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So, I guess the last (woefully empty) post was meant to be some sort of enlightened piece about contemporary South Korean director Park Chan-wook. It’s not that I ended up having nothing to say, I just couldn’t be bothered saying it… I’ll get around to writing the piece – I’ve wanted to write an essay [...]