Philip Gomes is firing at the moment, with a new blog look and a post on Canadian politics which makes sense. More sense at least than our mainstream media seem to be bothered with, even though the Canadians are a sort of parallel universe to Australia. Similar problems but such different solutions.
Meanwhile, James Russell at [...]

The Australian today published the editorial which could possibly be the shabbiest of its entire history, and it can be very very shabby when Head Office cracks the whip.
“VIETNAM was a disaster. The war that ended 30 years ago today cost the lives of 4 million Vietnamese and nearly 60,000 Americans. For us in [...]

The Anzac Day meditation that spoke to me the most was written by Jellyfish.
A beautiful piece of work.

Your Barista is a terrible swimmer, just awesomely bad. While you are plunging happily around in the briny, I am obsessed with the fact that I am one mistake away from death. What if my arms get tired?
I rationalise it by comparing it to many peoples’ attitude to cycling in traffic. I just know I [...]

This is a Brazilian Wandering Spider. Intensely poisonous, horribly large, it stalks the forest floor fanging large insects, small mammals and torpid reptiles.
It likes to snuggle up in banana trees and dream of rodents screaming and thrashing as they die. It is not uncommon for them to wake up in the hold of [...]

There are some strange ephemeral art forms out there – sand sculpture and ice sculpture we know about, but watermelon sculpture?
Why this should be posted on a site dedicated to a mature age motorcycle rally somewhere in the North East of the United States escapes me. “Hey Hiram, I’ll go get my knitting from [...]

Up near the northern end of Manhattan Island, there is a mock-medieval museum called The Cloisters, full of reassembled bits of Olde Europe and delicious works of art.
Among them are the Unicorn Tapestries, which you can now play with at their very own website, a classy example of the type.
Click onto the photo [...]

Various punters are trying to talk up the Return of Your Friendly Nuclear Reactor. Misunderstood last time, it has stood patiently in the corner waiting for us to realise it is really the kindest of kind genies, which will save the planet from that nasty warming thing caused by carbon dioxide.
Those of us who believe [...]

Rosie O’Donnell is quite something – actor, standup comedian, talk show host, magazine editor, foster parent, fighter for gay and lesbian rights.
Her blog is called formerlyrosie. Raw. Insightful. Honest. Inspiring. Motherless. Loving. Pugnacious.
“IN 1998
I SPENT THE SUMMER IN MIAMI
RELAXING AFTER
WHAT SOME WOULD CALL
A BREAKDOWN
PANICKED & DESPERATE – SPIRITUALLY SEARCHING
THE DARKNESS HAD RETURNED
DONíT WATCH THE [...]