Very occasionally I find some internet piece about government policy which makes me want to lean over and just puke into the wastepaper basket. This is one of them.
The US government (our allies, remember?) has been indulging in “extraordinary rendition”. Because they have laws to prevent torture, they are simply exporting suspected terrorists to [...]

Time To Go, John is going well itself, with packed screenings in Canberrra, Sydney and Melbourne, audiences that laughed like drains, and DVD’s selling steadily from the site.
The SMH took the trouble to publish a review, which had its friendly moments – “There are good bits”, says Alexa Moses, the 2001 graduate of the AFTRS [...]

Who has the world’s stretchiest skin? According to the Guinness Book of Records, Gary Turner from Lincolnshire does, although I am sure there are Patagonian tribes who use their excess leathery bits to float from tree to tree in sub-antarctic wintry blasts.
Found by Geisha Asobi Blog, it is all publicised by The Mirror, busy [...]

Shauney’s What’s New Pussycat is an Australian travel blog which has sustained a sense of humour for a full eighteen months of Scottish food and excursions to high glamour joints like Latvia.
Without trying too hard, it is a small classic. Particularly this post about designs of toilet.
And yes, the Germans do like to [...]

..well, within a thousand kilometres anyway.
Compendium film fun Time to Go John launches itself tomorrow night (sept 29th), at The Lumiere, 108 Lonsdale St in Melbourne, at 8.45pm. Then it runs as follows:
CARLTON Trades Hall 8.00pm, Thursday September 30th – 54 Victoria Street, Carlton
WAURN PONDS Readings Theatre 7.00pm, Friday October 1st, Cnr Pioneer Rd [...]

CBS has made another huge journalistic error. I wonder why..
“CBS News said yesterday that it had postponed a “60 Minutes” segment that questioned Bush administration rationales for going to war in Iraq…
..CBS said last night that the report on the war would not run before Nov. 2….
…”We now believe it would be inappropriate to air [...]

The Europeans are awed by the discovery of a honey mushroom – Armillaria ostoyae – living in a Swiss national park which covers 35 hectares and is 1000 years old.
However, the equivalent giant in the US covers overs 890 hectares, so it is the largest living organism every discovered. The size of 1,665 American [...]

Hippies of course turned into computer geeks. Well, the ones that didn’t have green thumbs so they realised they would have to buy drugs rather than grow them so they had better find a way into the economy. Then they could also own the hillside over the ocean where once upon a time they would [...]

Just picture yourself organising a kid’s birthday party. You are living in Florida.
Something materialises in the room, sounding very unlike a tiny tot. It is a “6-foot-tall, 275-pound bearded man”. You have never met him.
“Who are you?”, the newspaper will say you ask. Probably you find a more startled and aggressive way of putting [...]

For us Dylan listeners, MSNBC is leading the publicity charge for his new biography. It whets my appetite – as it is supposed to do.
“Dylan listeners”, of course, is code for desperate junkie devotees who would crawl across cut glass to just get a hint as to what he means by about fifty thousands [...]