There was a really lovely idea from the guest from Monday's show, Anand Giridharadas, author of "India Calling", that I thought I should pass on. I don't expect commentary, but I hope you all think about this - whether you are American or not ( Read more... )

After reading an article about Australia's immigration policies and how they're changing, I decided to take a practice Australian Citizenship Test at the government's website. You hear a lot of bullshit about citizenship tests, like you have to know about famous sportspeople and cultural things like that, but at least the practice test was fairly ( Read more... )

1) australia has no government! woo! first hung parliament in seventy years and PERSONALLY i blame the fact that everyone is getting too middle of the road. they can blame campaign advertising and mismanagement until they're blue in the face but honestly, labor and liberal were too close on a lot of things that there was very little setting them ( Read more... )