In the Full of Crap Report this week, Laurence Simon is simply too pissed off about the Palestinians sending a bunch of kiddies they equipped with toy guns off towards an Israeli military position to speak. So he doesn’t. If he did, there would be calls to regulate podcasts as a result.
Meryl Yourish, in "On Second Thought" weighs into the UK whackademics who have launched a boycott of Israel which even by their own record with South Africa is doomed to fail.Canadian blogger Damian Penny has more on the way the dreaded Mohammed cartoons of death are still causing booksellers to cower under their desks in fear.
This week’s feature interview is with Johno and Monica from Doublethink, who went where few rational people have gone before, the Cindy Sheehan anti-war rally in Melbourne, and lived to blog about it. Did you know that John Lennon’s song “Imagine” was banned in the United States after 9/11? True story, apparently…
In Blog News, Canada gets it’s very own home-grown terror suspects, fortunately unlike the 7/7 bombers in London it looks like they managed to nab them before they actually did anything. The papers are all desperately trying to avoid using any words which might identify the arrested suspects by religion or ethnicity, but I guess you won’t be shocked to discover that their supporters have already demanded they be given Korans, which is probably something of a giveaway.
Tim Blair points to a great column by Australian commentator Andrew Bolt, who wants to know why East Timor and Iraq, which would seem to share so many similarities, are treated so differently by the media. Oh, and TV news is caught out trying to improve on reality yet again.Batwoman returns! And she’s a lesbian! Yeah, it may masquerade as brave, transgressive and an act of social commentary, but as the blog “Well-heeled Lesbian” points out, it may have more to do with the teenaged boys who buy comics being just a little more interested in getting some hot girl-on-girl action to go with the tight leather costumes and knee-high boots.
See the Engyptian Sandmonkey write a peice for the mainstream US media calling for an international boycott of his own country because of the government’s arrest of several prominent bloggers! Watch as he starts to regret it almost instantly!
John Kerry still has the magic CIA hat he mentioned during the 2004 election campaign. Just thought I’d mention it. You know, FYI. Not that Kerry is obsessed or anything. In possibly related other-failed-Democratic-nominees news, I have the perfect Democrat candidate for 2008.
Attention tinfoil hat brigade! Turns out they are nothing but another Karl Rove trick! Or are they? Perhaps this news is itself designed to get you to take them off. You can never tell with Rove. Wheels within wheels my friend. Wheels within wheels….
A woman in New Zealand has been found guilty and sentenced to 180 hours of community service for cutting down her own tree in her own backyard. How surprised would you be to discover a pointy-headed bureaucrat was involved in the proceedings?
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