''Great hatred, little room/Maimed us at the start," wrote W B Yeats in 1939s
Boris on Safe Cycling with Mobile The Tory intention, therefore, is to impose equality of misery on both groups
[Note to the playwriter in Prague: Not even kommunists - bullying, bossy, hysterical, nannying communists - saw the need to be petty about risks in relation to climbing. I should have known better. I should have been wiser ... I failed to see the wood for the trees]
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Insiders Insider
Sauer Thompson enters the mind of the parliamentary press galery the Orwell or not so Well Group Think and Love!
Politics may be a game of swings and merry-go-rounds but at the moment Mark Latham must feel that it is mainly about slippery slides.Only a few months ago, key members of the Canberra press gallery -- the self-appointed judge and jury of Australian politics -- were among his biggest backers, some even proclaiming the race all but over and consigning John Howard to the scrapheap of history. Now the only real division in the gallery is between those who think Latham's leadership is in serious trouble and those who think he is, to use Michael Costello's phrase, a 'dead parrot' ...
Parties need tough love. Yet friendly media live off hope. Rather than unsentimental assessments, we get sly assertions of faith. If the faith is questioned, the price is excommunication....That's the problem with media bias. If only your friends write you up, you'll always be a shining knight - until you crash and burn. What are required are lots of contrary devil's advocates to test whether you have the right stuff.
• Speakers and Canaries [Specter of Backpages is looming before this definitive blogosphere actions captured by Troppoarmadillos ]
• · I could not fail to disagree with you less Boris Johnson Foot in Mouth; [ I first saw this quote in a letter written by Diedre Grusovin, former MP of NSW Parliament: Words attributed to Burke - "It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph" - topped a poll to coincide with the new Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Diedre's quotation does nothing but triumph ]
• · · "Why Read? More than just a touch of irony is involved. That question is what the program's host, Brian Lamb, has been addressing weekly for 15 years. After Many Million Pages, 'Booknotes' Ends Its Run
• · · · New AdSense for search languages
My mates at Google have expanded the language support for AdSense for search. Users can now search in 21 languages, including Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, Russian, and traditional Chinese Channel Surfing
• · · · · Webdiary - Shuffle of the Wind Australia's first peoples: stalemate over? ; [Blogosphere Unbalanced History and How Tim Blair Mirrors Hysterical Tenor ]
• · · · · · Sree Sreenivasan The Web Tips team continues a tradition: a year-end roundup of our favorite tips