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Bertrand Russell’s grandmother’s favourite Bible verse was this: Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.” (Exodus 23:2) We can think of a lot of people we would like to see taking that to heart. The ones with special vests and...
Who ultimately pays? ir Roger is not an economist. He is (therefore) not a marxist. Nevertheless he has long been confused and at the same time fascinated by the doctrine of endless economic growth and has wondered from where and how,...
Like a Well-Fermented Fart Preamble to "A Moron in a Hurry" — Sir Roger v Gough's Gouls trangely enough this title could be, but isn’t, about the next election. It’s about Labor Icon Gruff Wiblam and his pale irritation Steel Rod....
For ANZAC Day Two poems about the madness of war: Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen Naming of Parts by Henry Reed and a poem for the truly great – in our case the diggers: I Think Continually by Stephen Spender. _______________________________ ...
“Women Are Too Emotional” P oor old dill-brain Barnaby Rubble comically suggested today on Insiders that perhaps he was a bit old-fashioned about women in uniform. “ I just couldn’t get my head around shooting a woman. Maybe that makes me a bit old-fashioned and I...
Do Australians have freedom of speech? o Australians have freedom of speech? And, if so, was that freedom of speech illegally curtailed by the Howard government and the NSW government during APEC? IANAL but it seems so. Freedom of speech is not a...
Son of Leo Strauss n his extraordinary article, The Undertaker’s Tally, Roger Morris1 chillingly, and deeply disturbingly, lifts the veil on the life, times and evil mind of the real Donald Rumsfeld. Morris begins with Rumsfeld’s...
The Murdoch interview with Max Walsh The way we were n Wednesday, February 12, 2003, Max Walsh conducted an exclusive interview with Rupert Murdoch. Max Walsh: Let’s start with Iraq and the war because that...
unter S. Thompson said it, and he wasn’t a traitor: America…just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to...
'F' is for Effed e are devastated to have to report that the Government - which instituted the Australian Values campaign - has failed its own test. A Government website, Values Education, has provided a list of the nine most important...
Sir Roger is despondent fter all the hard work of so many people Australian politics is looking like Howard Lite, iSuck 2.0 déjà vu all over again. Boat people – “Aaaaarrrggghh! Foreigners! Tough on Queue-jumpers [but not on the causes of...
Watch Time Disappear When Sir Roger was a young man (yes), his university offered a soft course for the scientifically inquisitive but mathematically challenged called The History and Philosophy of Science. Naturally this was universally and derogatorily referred to...
Paedophile Bishop of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe Pope Shocked. Shocked! wish I had written this, because I agree wholeheartedly with what she says. I wish I had written what she wrote but thank goodness she did. Joan Smith’s whole article in...
Or Worse – a Catholic Priest Previously on Moron in a Hurry : ir Roger, strapped to the rack by the Madam Intimidatrix of the Hooded Brethren of the Gruff Wiblam Edifice, shouted that “Freedom is a state of mind”, wondering...
What on earth is going on? Is it all over, after all? Have the barbarians claimed victory? First: Sir Roger listens to ABC Radio A LOT. One evening, or early morning, he was listening to an interview with an author by a respected ABC presenter....
Australian Values ustralian values have lately been enthusiastically asserted by some Australians and Sir Roger has been much impressed – in much the same way a washed-up prize fighter feels the repeated impressions of his opponents’ fists...
“We came for peace,” said the commando, one of the first Israeli soldiers to board the Mavi Marmara. ”They came for war.” ow you can tell "we came for peace" is that we came in the dark of night in warships and armed rigid-hulled inflatable boats,...
t wasn’t such a surprise, we suppose, but Benazir Bhutto’s reported assassination, while it saddens us as another display of humanity’s inability to grow up, confirms our contempt for religion in general and that one in particular. Let those who...
The Murdoch interview with Max Walsh The way we were n Wednesday, February 12, 2003, Max Walsh conducted an exclusive interview with Rupert Murdoch. Max Walsh: Let’s start with Iraq and the war because that...
Bertrand Russell’s grandmother’s favourite Bible verse was this: Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.” (Exodus 23:2) We can think of a lot of people we would like to see taking that to heart. The ones with special vests and...
Or Worse – a Catholic Priest Previously on Moron in a Hurry : ir Roger, strapped to the rack by the Madam Intimidatrix of the Hooded Brethren of the Gruff Wiblam Edifice, shouted that “Freedom is a state of mind”, wondering...
It wasn't about David Hicks: How Howard fucked himself whether Hicks came home or not. icks might go away out of the political limelight but the way Howard has treated him will be the reason Howard loses the next election. If he does, Howard...
Robert Burns statue in Writers Museum EdinburghWithin the first five seconds we were hooked e were on the way to work, tuned in to Radio National’s Book Show, a replay of the opening address by Andrew O’Hagan from last year’s Sydney Writers’...
We’re just a bit confused r Haneef has been charged with recklessly providing resources to a terrorist organisation (to wit, a sim card). The alleged recklessness occurred in the UK. It did not take place in Australia. There is no...
After: Oliver Sacks by Luigi Novi 9.13.09 . . . the arms that long for love ir Roger was listening to the ABC Science Show today. It was Robyn Williams’ homage to Oliver Sacks (Awakenings, The Man Who Thought His Wife Was a Hat, Seeing...
“We came for peace,” said the commando, one of the first Israeli soldiers to board the Mavi Marmara. ”They came for war.” ow you can tell "we came for peace" is that we came in the dark of night in warships and armed rigid-hulled inflatable boats,...
What is it With Toilet Paper? When age can, uninvited, link the distant poppy past of The Knack with the all too adjacent Present and come up with a pun, Sir Roger is delighted that there are others still living who appreciate the troubling incongruity...
Wha..!? I woun’t not of never of dun nuffink so bad like wot you say! ederal agent Bruce Pegg, who interviewed Mr Ul-Haque in prison, told NSW Supreme Court judge Michael Adams he had done nothing improper by questioning Mr Ul-Haque...
…and yet proud… o have some of our work considered worthy of inclusion amongst the writings of the doyens of the ozblogosphere in the Top 40 collection at OnlineOpinion. The piece the judges have chosen is “The Nation That Hangs Together”. We have...
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