marx and marzipan

Not totally unexpected news in the paper this morning:

But last year Mr Howard said ID cards were back on the agenda because the world was now a very different place.
Concern about individual rights had to be balanced against protecting people from terrorism, he said.
“You have to put that against the right all of us have […]

I’ve been to quite a few big outdoor musical events in the last couple of years, but none of them even came close to The Great Escape on Saturday. Newington Armory was a great venue (if a little cool in the evening, but there’s nothing like freezing your ass off to give you a good […]

This expression was one of my parents’ favourite admonitions of my teenage years. Not that it ever had any positive effect then or now, as evidenced by the fact I have spent the whole weekend hanging out and having a good time, and posting flickr photos of course, rather than dealing with my looming and […]

Down at Jed’s just then, over my coffee, I was browsing the pages of the Wentworth Courier, hardly a last redoubt of bleeding heart liberalism in the Eastern Suburbs. Nestled amongst the adverts for Ferraris, million dollar shoe box apartments in Ben Buckler and hideous plastic surgey disasters of the social pages, was an article […]