Still Life With Cat

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I hate crying. Not only am I one of those people unable to cry prettily (red-eyed, blotchy etc) but it doesn't even help, as it is popul...

What, offhand, would you say was the subliminal message behind this conjunction of text, image and caption? I want to know who chose that...

Memo to Premier Mike Rann and the Labor Party of South Australia: 1) If you want things to change, you have to change things. 2) Slightl...

A few posts back I got taken to task by a commenter for questioning the meaning of pronouncements by a Frenchwoman in full niqab. This comme...

This is a brief, spontaneous and miscellaneous post written only because I have just noticed that the number of posts here is currently 666,...

And this is what he has to say. Observe the precision of his judgement, and the exquisite subtlety of his timing.

Longtime readers might remember this post of four years ago, in which Papa Cat turned 80 and said, having blown out his candles, 'Right...

Julie Bishop was on the radio last night blithering about how the government, which has chartered a special Qantas flight out of Cairo for s...

Sometimes if you're lucky there's a moment, when you're working on a first draft, trying to turn it into a second draft, that co...

From today's Crikey: 'Iran's cover up. Baroness Ashton, the EU Foreign Minister, has been given a more modest neckline in Ira...

This is Crikey's Video of the Day today. As one of the many feminists around the world bedevilled by the question of Islamic dress c...

I just followed a link someone had put up on Facebook to watch the original trailer of Antonioni's The Passenger , a movie I've alwa...

are all I'm good for at the moment. * Am up sharp pointy end of Adelaide book, lurching from one paragraph to the next as deadline loo...

In a disaster situation involving both chaos and shortages, which is worse: looting, or charging ten bucks for a loaf of bread? Why?

I'm just starting to recover from a very nasty little episode a few hours ago that could have been any one of the following: (a) food po...

In the wake of assorted local, national and international natural disasters last summer, I was sufficiently freaked out to pack a small emer...

You've got to hand it to him though; he's 100% consistent. One relied upon him to make some response of this calilbre , and one has ...

Don't listen to this at work unless it's all right for you to be LOLing at your desk.

Today the national broadcaster makes its contribution to the ever-growing pile of human ignorance and stupidity by encouraging the populace ...