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Both scathing and funny. As a snarky ancient history major, I approve!

I found this to be entertaining and clever commentary on the current WikiLeaks situation (which has, I admit, gotten my attention):

“In a free society we’re supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we’re in big trouble.” – Ron Paul

“What WikiLeaks is really exposing is the extent to which the western democratic system has been hollowed out. In the last decade its political elites have been shown to be incompetent (Ireland, the US and UK in not regulating banks); corrupt (all governments in relation to the arms trade); or recklessly militaristic (the US and Continue reading →

Well, Julia Gillard’s reshuffle didn’t remove Stephen Conroy from his position as Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. It’s my understanding that she wanted to keep things as stable as possible until the next federal election (which, I’m hearing, could be as early as August), and I get that. So what this means Continue reading →

Well, this is all over the news in Australia, of course, but I know that some of the people who follow this blog aren’t Australian, and, anyway, I sometimes write about Australian politics here, so I’m going to do that. We have a new Prime Minister, and it’s a woman, Julia Gillard. She was Deputy Continue reading →