NEWS JUST IN:
In an unprecedented press conference, the Prime Minister today revealed the secret clauses to the ’seditious intention’ provisions of the new anti-terrorism legislation.
It actually reads
“..seditious intention means an intention to effect any of the following purposes:
(a) to bring the Sovereign into hatred or contempt;
(b) to undermine the reputation of Kerry Packer and [...]

I’ve just found Kaiju Shakedown, one of those hybrid/fake blogs which are supported by news entitles – in this case, Variety. It covers Asian films.
He recounts a story which belongs in a short film. What does a village do when a mentally ill resident turns to murder? Surprisingly, the law says he is too [...]

Unlike Michael Caine’s agency in The Ipcress Files the US intelligence budget has risen to forty billion US dollars per year. We now know for sure that some of it is spent on extraordinary rendition.
In order to snatch suspects off the streets of European cities, a team of operatives moves in, and tracks their quarry, [...]

Once upon a time, a Methodist priest and missionary, lately relocated to Timberscombe in Somerset, entertained his growing children with silly stories, and then his grandchildren as well. Eventually, when everyone was grown up, he wrote them down, and his daughter Rosa spent twenty years trying to find a publisher.
When he was very [...]

Troppo Armadillo has metamorphosed into Club Armadillo, thus preserving the word which makes sense of the wondrous creature animation. With another round of changes, the armadillo could become a sort of tribute for the long time fans, who will meet one day in anoraks and refuse to tell the younger ones what the critter is, [...]

A certain Robert who probably now has reasons to be anonymous posted a selection of tart legal remarks made in WA courts over the last year.
I laffed and laffed.

I yam proud to be numbered among the 32,000 people (peeps) who receive Michael Quinion’s weekly email newsletter.
The latest one revealed a startling fact derived from a snippet about “non-coresidential”, which is demographers’ jargon for people who are intimately involved with each other but not living together. The sort of people who own [...]

Rema Petronio was being towed in her car by her former de facto on the Western Ring Road. Modern and all, it still gets my adrenalin going every time I take our car and its attendant circus onto it.
Apparently her four kids were with her. His car ran out of petrol. She got a drum [...]

You know how The Famous Five has been voted the best children’s books of all time at least according to the UK? YouGov – not online for this one – polled 2,688 adults about their favourite books for children. 759 respondents were 18 to 29 while 708 were (and presumably still are) over fifty.
This list [...]

Here’s a sweet story that belongs on Christmas Day.
Collins Booksellers went down in July, threatening Melbourne’s iconic Hill of Content Bookshop,and a string of rural franchisees. The sharks circled, looking to whack bits off it and leave the carcass floating in a sea of missed opportunities and public regret.
Instead, all 31 franchisees got [...]