The world is small and filled with Costello’s conundrum: an extra baby girl - is that an increased in family size by of 25% or 33.33%? Bean counters everywhere welcome Dakota Carol ...
We, the irresponsible bunch, wonder--
What colours dance through Windsor moonlit dreams?
Babies are the poem
Boonah, Windsor, Nandah
we dreamed of writing
the masterpiece
we longed to paint.
As Peter Costello puts it:
One for the husband,
one for the wife
and one for the country
Fertile Minds: A man called Jeff
Eye on Politics & Law Lords: One for Miranda
How appropriate that it is Miranda Devine, recently profiled by The Bulletin magazine as ‘Ms Middle Australia’, who has finally exposed the hollowness at the heart of much of the fervently pro-‘Mr Middle Australia’ punditry we’ve copped over recent years.
Writing in the Herald today, Devine – with thudding predictability - attacked those of us who have apparently ‘hijacked’ the Rau (and Habib and Barton) stories in order to prosecute what she calls our ‘meta-story’: that Prime Minister Howard is inherently dishonest and even ‘evil’, and that everything can thus only be seen accurately through what she calls that ‘distorting’ prism.
• You're running out of elitists to blame, Miranda [In Tweed Shire, there's no problem with rich developers discussing their plans with the mayor in private, says the current office holde You're running out of elitists to blame, Miranda ; Taxpayers give $1m to right-to-life groups ]
• · Protesters stormed a Bali courtroom today to demand the execution of Australian Schapelle Corby as she faced trial on drug smuggling charges.Bali of Blood
• · · Police should review their driver training, the NSW coroner recommended after finding two officers had breached safe-driving guidelines when pursuing a man in the Royal National Park. A Herald investigation last year found that more people died in high-speed pursuits in NSW than any other state. Roadblocks or spikes could not be used
• · · · Odyssey of a lost soul: She was very intelligent and obviously very scared... she spoke very childlike and with an Eastern European accent There's nothing more fundamantal to our democracy than a citizen's right not to be incarcerated by the State without cause. The entire Parliament is now on trial.
• · · · · Bill Smith of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch used tax records to show that a foundation run by some of Missouri’s top police officials has raised millions of dollars on behalf of charity, but more than 80 percent of those contributions have gone to the foundation’s Texas-based fund-raiser Less than one percent of that amount was used for the charity’s stated purpose of helping children
• · · · · · Scott Dodd, Bruce Henderson and Heather Vogell of the Charlotte Observer examine railroad safety, finding that “in the Charlotte region, nearly 800,000 people live within a mile of a major rail line,”Danger On Board ; Much huffing and puffing in the Australian blogosphere about the politicisation of literature, all blamed on the left, of course, and their supposed penchant for postmodernism. Judgemental as anything