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Pigeons on Ice
Get the Flock Out of Here ears ago (in 2009) Sir Roger reached out to his readers about the standard, weaselly, platitudes politicians drag out in response to catastrophes. Now you and Sir Roger both know that he didn't "reach out" at all....
Ordinary Australians Lose Automatic Citizenship
Ordinary Australians are terrified by a new test the Australian Government is planning to introduce.
Happy Birthday
Today was a dual anniversary – the 221st anniversary of the birth of (European) Australia and the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robbie Burns. The two are related. Burns was a fierce advocate of Enlightenment principles and the fight for the rights of citizens...
Such Is Life
"Unemployed at last!" e think this is the best Australian novel ever written. Yes, we know there are many contenders and perhaps The Tree of Man comes a close second. But to us, at least, Such Is Life by “Tom Collins” (Joseph Furphy),...
Denying Gay Marriage for Power’s Sake
Sir Roger does not wish to marry a man but . . . o put it another way, while Sir Roger and Dorothy have many good friends in common, Dorothy and Sir Roger are not Facebook buddies. And Sir Roger does not think that his personal preference...
The Undertaker’s Tally
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...
Even Worse Than Terrorism
“The supreme international crime” efinitions of terrorism in western countries are remarkably similar. According to Chomsky, writing in 2006, official definitions include that terrorism is the calculated use of violence or...
Is Labor Finished?
"A Realm of Despicably Effortless Incompetence" ir Roger Migently is not angry. He is over it.According to Friday’s ABC 7.30 Report: The Government is pushing ahead with its demand that dozens of dentists repay...
Cronnultural Promotion
Sydney Cultural Promotion Takes Off With a Bang 16 October, 2006 16 October, 2006 – The Promotional Campaign for this year’s annual Cultural Respect Classes has taken off with a bang in Sydney, beginning at Manly and Maroubra beaches. 13 people were allegedly...
Howard ‘Fundamentally Evil’~MP
Throwing people into the abyss “spat” occurred this week when the Groveller General broke with longstanding international convention to meddle in the domestic politics of another country, saying that if he ran Al Qaeda, he would “put...
Black Breath of the Nazgûl
AKA Phillip Ruddock AKA 'Dock Vader How dare ordinary 'people' have "views!" sked on Southern Cross radio whether the case was a mess, he replied: "No, what I think has happened is that people who have views about the nature of the law are...
Oliver Sacks and “Soul Murder”
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...
Wikileaks Cablegate and Hunter S. Thompson
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...
The Courtier’s Reply
The Emperor's New Clothes he King is in the altogether, The altogether, the altogether, He’s altogether as naked as the day that he was born. ~ Danny Kaye/HC Andersen One of the constant “arguments” – actually not so much an argument as a...
Let Them Eat Yellowcake
Carlo Bonini STATE OF THE UNION 2003: " Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of Uranium from Africa." Or not ... Well, as Bill Moyers reminds us, it wasn’t true. It was all a forgery, perpetrated in Rome. And Carlo Bonini, the Italian...
Guantánamo Career Suicide
Guantánamo Policy Chief Pulls Plug on Career: Spills Government Beans in Radio Interview eputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Guantánamo Policy, Charles “Cully” Stimson, resigned following uproar over a 12 January interview on...
It’s Time, Mick
after Mr FishIt's Time t’s time for Mick Keelty to resign. Or be sacked. Either way, he has to go: A senior counter-terrorism officer with the Australian Federal Police has testified that police were directed to charge “as many...
Migently Mountain Manifesto: 1
S ir Roger is returned from the Mountain with the Migently Mountain Manifesto.Here are Tablets One to Five: 1. Do what is right. 2. You are safe. Now, at this instant, you are safe.You are safe, right here, right now. This might allow you to...
Is Labor Finished?
"A Realm of Despicably Effortless Incompetence" ir Roger Migently is not angry. He is over it.According to Friday’s ABC 7.30 Report: The Government is pushing ahead with its demand that dozens of dentists repay...
Review of recent DIC Waving
A slightly different audience ... ome time ago, Bob Correll, the Deputy Secretary of DIC¹ , contacted us to complain that the Values Australia website “may seriously damage Australia’s reputation overseas” before going on to threaten...
Lex Australia
ame across an old post at Gavin Putland’s Leges Dubiae blog which coincides with what we tried to say way back when Haneef was the name on everyone’s lips. Given the change of government and all, it seems timely to question this preposterous...
‘Compassionate’ Costello Reach-around
Costello reaches out to the downtrodden ... [Drawing by Tony King, 1969] ... The electorate merely retches. r Costello said that in the election campaign he would talk about what Australia needs for its future, in particular drawing the...
The Meaning of Life
Sunday Sacrilege nsights from the great Joseph Campbell, Mythologist, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion, author of The Power of Myth, The Inner Secrets of Outer Space, and The Hero with a Thousand Faces...
Haneef “Not Uninnocent”
The materials available to me While there are inferences that are available from the material I have, I am of the view that they are not sufficiently strong to exclude reasonable hypotheses consistent with innocence.” – Damien Bugg, DPP Did...
The Nation That Hangs Together
The Nation that Hangs Together Hangs Together The glorious lynching of Saddam was not meant to be “unprofessional", and "disgusting". No, no! According to Iraq’s National Security Adviser, the noted humanitarian, Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie: “This was supposed to be a...
Clive of Kogarah
Clive James with Bill Moyers ill Moyers recently hosted Clive James on his show to talk about his new book, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts (not the 80s punk band). Publishers Weekly says:...
Anzac Day 2011
Carnage incomparable, and human squander On this Anzac Day: f there is one thing that can be said of war it is that it is a massive betrayal of Humanity. It is a monstrous failure of human imagination, vision, ingenuity and intelligence....
Keelty Must Go At Last
Howard’s last ditch: a failure called Keelty e wish to note the news this week that: ASIO has revealed it “consistently” advised the Howard government it had no evidence connecting Mohamed Haneef to a British...
Comfortably Numb
Shit! Shit shit shit shit shit! ir Roger on his way home tonight happened to catch a little Pink Floyd on his mobile-wireless-machine-that-plugs-directly-into-the-ears, what used to be called a “tranny” before that term, too, was hijacked by some...
Why NOT Benny Condoms?
Okay, it can’t be avoided. ir Roger wrote this in a fit a few weeks ago and he was in a variety of minds as to whether he ought to publish it. Was it intemperate? Of course. It was Sir Roger. Anything else? Was it wrong? Sir Roger, on...
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