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Ger­ard Henderson’s head is so far up his arse he thinks he’s above petty par­tisan polit­ics in this drip­pingly sar­castic ‘review’ of our talk­ing heads in 2005 Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle dvd . What would you expect from someone who’s the exec­ut­ive dir­ector of his own ‘insti­tute’? Yup, him and his wife. The Believer Forces […]

OK, there are a buck­et­load of elec­tions hap­pen­ing today-ish. My pre­dic­tions: Aus­tralia I expect that Labor will win com­fort­ably in all the by-elections hap­pen­ing today. Even with the whole brouhaha over the Lib­eral lead­er­ship, there will prob­ably be a small swing to the Lib­er­als in Macquarie Fields. Des­pite a con­cer­ted effort from the Greens, Sam Byrne will probably […]

a pulp fac­tion: Love in Action or Child Abuse? News from the States about a kid, Zach, who came out to his par­ents. Ordin­ar­ily, it would be under­stand­able for the par­ents to be shocked and sur­prised, and maybe even a little dis­ap­poin­ted. Being from the Deep South how­ever, these par­ents go a couple of steps fur­ther. In what is […]

Click to enlarge Des­per­ado hd The Mat­ing Habits of the Earth­bound Human down­load Mickey’s Christ­mas Carol rip A  —  The Best Case Scen­ario The Visual Bible: The Gos­pel of John dvd The ALP usu­ally only allows a con­science vote on moral issues, so they would be expec­ted to vote as a bloc in this con­text. Assum­ing the Inde­pend­ent members  —  Peter […]

The Lord’s hand in the law of the land Frailty The Terri Schiavo case is the latest where law and reli­gion are climb­ing over each other in the courts and the legis­lature to get to the highest moral ground. Dah­lia Lith­wick, one of the most inter­est­ing writers on jur­is­pru­dence in the US, said in Slate […]