Beatles’ ode to John Howard 27 Nov 2007 This is kicking a man when he’s down, but the iPod popped this up to me last night, and I thought how appropriate it is to the election outcome: I’m looking through you Where did you go I thought I knew you What did I know You don’t look different But you have changed I’m looking through you You’re not the same Your lips are moving I cannot hear You voice is soothing But the words aren’t clear You don’t sound different I’ve learned the game I’m looking through you You’re not the same Why, tell me why Did you not treat me right Love has a nasty habit Of disappearing overnight You’re thinking of me The same old way You were above me But not today The only difference Is you’re down there I’m looking though you And you’re nowhere Why, tell me why Did you not treat me right Love has a nasty habit Of disappearing overnight I’m looking through you Where did you go I thought I knew you What did I know You don’t look different But you have changed I’m looking through you You’re not the same Yeah, Oh, baby you’ve changed Aah, I’m looking through you Yeah, I’m looking through you You’ve changed, you’ve changed You’ve changed, you’ve changed Politics
Administrative A new comment policy? 6 May 2011 From Barry Ritholz’s blog Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you… Read More
Politics Taking the veil [away] 6 May 2010 I am profoundly conflicted about European attempts to ban the burqa, that form of dress that covers all of a woman and leaves only a gauze strip for her eyes. On the one hand I think it is dehumanising, enslaving and deeply sexist. On the other, I do not think… Read More
Politics Did Jeb Bartlett win? 5 Nov 2008 Or rather, Jimmy Smits’ character, Matt Santos? I am rather taken by how much like the presidential race involving Smits and Alda the recent election was. Obama is an intelligent Santos. I wonder how much credit for the sea change in American politics must go to Sorkin’s portrayal of a… Read More
You wanna hear something weird? Because of the Chasers, your post makes perfect sense to me even though I’m from Israel. I think by now I know more about aussie politics than most aussies. How freakish is that?
That election should have been Howard’s to lose. a decade and a half of steady economic growth but all I ever heard about was John Howard’s chain of dubious stupidities. I know more about Aussie politics than I do about Vermont politics, but probably only because my governor blunders less.