Blah. Too much to do. Stupid work.

In other news:
Economic inequality, from The New York Times:
"The Census Bureau has tracked the economic fortunes of affluent, middle-class and poor American families for six decades. According to my analysis, these tabulations reveal a wide partisan disparity in income growth. The real incomes of middle-class ( Read more... )

"Former Australian prime minister John Howard appears to have missed out on joining a prestigious British order of knights."
*relief*  (although would like them to be rather more certain about it).

"FINAL confirmation that George Bush has too much time on his hands came in prime time. Well into the lame-duck stage of his presidency, with his White ( Read more... )

Wow, it's like he's given up any hope of ever again appearing like a rational being:
'Tony Abbott accusing Labor of behaving in a "disgusting way" in its tardy embrace of an indigenous welfare crackdown in the Kimberley.'

He just keeps having outburst after angry outburst, each dripping with hypocrisy. I can barely summon more than slight irritation ( Read more... )

Yes, was lovely to brunch and beer with K on Sunday.
And Saturday night it was good to catch up with friends and have a rather indulgent night.

But what I really want to post about is to ask if anyone has seen any good muck-raking email forwards or web-pages about the Republican candidates.

I was just accidentally forwarded a rather partisan email ( Read more... )

I haven't really been following it, but I'm still a bit surprised that Edwards has pulled out...

So I'm back from a lovely week in Sunny Perth.
Highlights:

1. Mum's surprise party went very very well (and surprisingly).
2. The election news (thanks
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Dammit, I saw an amusing comparison (on a blog i think) of the Libbos claim that the ALP is 70% unionists, with the Libbos being 70% lawyers...but I can't find it now :-(

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/abbott-given-moral-lessons/2007/10/11/1191696082655.html

[Tony Abbott] said in comments to the Institute of Public Affairs that were reported by the ABC: "I do think that if church men spent more time encouraging virtue in people and less time demanding virtue from governments we would have ultimately a better ( Read more... )

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/managers-strip-worker-rights/2007/09/12/1189276809758.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
"A landmark study has examined every new collective agreement in those ( Read more... )

Nice :-)

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/public-servants-win-protest-case/2007/09/06/1188783415733.html:

THE Howard Government's industrial relations department broke its own laws when it ordered public servants not to go to an ACTU protest rally in November 2005.

Federal Court judge Catherine Branson ruled yesterday a written order issued by ( Read more... )