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Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-54941232916228822912008-11-15T10:12:00.000+10:002008-11-15T10:17:15.007+10:00'Housing Affordability Crisis' Hits HomeOn the whole, 2008 has been a pretty good year for me. I enrolled in a post-graduate course at Melbourne Uni - if I keep it up I'll be a licensed Master of Publishing and Communications. Hell, I might even go do the mortarboard and gown thing for the first time when I finish this one. By dint of not so persistent practice and application my drawing steadily improved to the point where I felt up Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-61820572151687297632008-11-13T07:32:00.000+10:002008-11-13T07:42:52.525+10:00Enter at Your Own RiskA couple of my real-life friends decided to go ex-pat last year; they're now in London, doing what ex-pats do. In this case, getting sucked into a Movieum of London short film contest, where entrants had 48 hours to produce a slasher horror film for screening on Halloween. You can read a bit about the making of here, or you can just take a look at the finished entry. An extended version with moreGummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-71496663438578871552008-10-22T07:26:00.000+10:002008-10-22T07:32:41.439+10:00300 JournalistsI noticed a couple of new posters advertising The National Rupert at a couple of tram stops the other day. I didn't have a camera handy, so when I got home I drew a copy from memory, for anybody out there who hasn't seen them yet.Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-44614233266839733812008-10-17T17:32:00.001+10:002008-10-17T17:39:14.954+10:00Almost, But Not Quite, A RetractionOn September 10, reluctant culture warrior Kevin Donnelly declared, in the National Rupert, that his worst fears for the future of education had been realised:LEADING up to the federal election, I welcomed the ALP's policy calling for a national curriculum based, as it was, on a conservative agenda very much like the Howard government's approach to reshaping the teaching of history and Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-57805900557440213342008-10-15T12:44:00.000+10:002008-10-15T12:51:38.921+10:00'Age of Bastardry Over' - BastardHERE is the latest, shocking fashion news: nasty is out and nice is in. Bastardry is suddenly so last season - just like Big Brother - that all the best stars must now switch their sneers to smiles.The sooner this trend spreads from TV and radio to those newspapers, the better.Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-74585091378161484112008-09-17T13:44:00.000+10:002008-09-17T13:50:34.801+10:00Word of the Day: ThingoWith nothing significant to report from Canberra, the front page of today's Hun is devoted to the dastardly 'West Gate Bomb Plot' of recently convicted terrorist wannabe Abdul Benbrika. According to The Hun's Keith Moor:One of the most chilling conversations taped by police was between Benbrika terror network member Fadi Sayadi and an associate as they discussed destroying the West Gate Bridge...Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-46915451429025125672008-09-10T18:49:00.000+10:002008-09-10T18:50:46.922+10:00Anti-PC Beat Up of the WeekCulture Warriors Demand an End to Culture WarsTwo new appointments to the National Curriculum Board have angered the journos and pundits at The National Rupert Daily. According to Justine Ferrari, 'Education writer' at the National Rupert, the appointments of Stuart MacIntyre and Peter Freebody to prepare draft curriculum outlines for history and literacy have re-opened the history wars and the Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-7855300754964578102008-09-10T09:37:00.000+10:002008-09-10T09:41:04.888+10:00Another Day, Another FurphyDr Jennifer Marohasy, whose work at the IPA involves examining and critiquing the scientific claims of others, produced an amusing piece on glaciers yesterday. She claimed that:A study of sea level rise from ice melt in Greenland and western Antarctica has just been published in Science and concludes that a rise of 0.8 metres is possible by 2100, but even 2 metres “physically untenable”.If, like Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-36405239042435351722008-09-05T08:56:00.001+10:002008-09-05T11:41:16.613+10:00Own Goal of the WeekHarperCollins has announced that it will remove a chapter on how to play the didgeridoo from the Australian edition of The Daring Book for Girls. The company has also issued a statement apologising for the inclusion of the chapter.The chapter's removal follows accusations from Dr Mark Rose, general manager of the Victorian Aboriginal Education Association, that the inclusion of the chapter was Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-6850471265251902052008-09-03T14:02:00.000+10:002008-09-03T14:04:49.702+10:00Gutless Bolt Has a Bob Each Way on Freedom of Expression...... and he's not the only one.Emily Mapfuwa, a devout Christian, has launched a private prosecution against an art gallery for displaying a statue of Jesus Christ with a beef bugle. According to the good Emily's lawyers, the Baltic Centre for Conteporary Art committed an ‘act of a lewd and a disgusting nature and outraged public decency contrary to Common Law’ by displaying the statue.The privateGummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-15892665809494672302008-08-28T09:20:00.001+10:002008-08-28T09:30:37.648+10:00Recalcitrant Ice Finally Gets Its Arse Into GearThe Arctic Ice that only a couple of weeks ago was refusing to melt seems to have woken up to itself and its obligations to the 'AGW supporters', 'hysterics' etc. It now looks set to beat last year's record low easily - as long as its stamina holds up between now and mid-September.I wonder what keen ice watcher, Andrew Bolt, will make of this? In any case, if you need images of the arctic ice capGummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-48798809182875115812008-08-22T22:38:00.000+10:002008-08-22T22:40:35.472+10:00Over the TopI got sucked into reading this piece in yesterday's Age by the first paragraph:EVEN though it was just a skeleton, there was still something that said Australian larrikin about the soldier's remains that lay as he fell on a shell-blasted Belgian battlefield 91 years ago.I just had to know what it was about this skeleton that alerted its finders to its nationality. Was it the cheeky, devil may Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-37521428153791228572008-08-22T09:53:00.001+10:002008-08-22T11:53:42.508+10:00Plimer Throws Debate, Wins PlauditsIan Plimer took to the hustings in Sydney on Tuesday, to defend religion against the charge that we'd be better off without it. As third speaker for the negative team, Plimer used the occasion to denounce the 'new religion' of environmentalism. Plimer's speech has been reproduced at Andrew Bolt's blog and at Jennifer Marohasy's blog of socratic irony.I suspect Plimer's team-mates were a lot less Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-4117110692054987422008-08-20T13:18:00.002+10:002008-08-21T09:31:42.784+10:00ROFLMAO AgainThis time from Andy Bolt, giving a bit of stick to another irresponsible journalist creating another 'wild warming scare':CLIMATE change could threaten the safety of blood used for life-saving transfusions, Australian experts have warned.A report by West Australian researchers has raised concern that rising temperatures will increase the prevalence of viruses, like dengue and Ross River, already Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-60496144108362482512008-08-20T08:15:00.002+10:002008-08-21T09:29:41.814+10:00Sound Bite Snake OilIt seems that since two global warming 'sceptics' appeared on Sunday's Sixty Minutes, mainstream opinion on global warming has shifted back to the 'it ain't happening and even if it is, it's not man made' position. Maybe - no-one's done the polling yet.The Sixty Minutes report 'Crunch Time', included this sound bite from Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-15713592272597883772008-08-20T07:28:00.000+10:002008-08-20T07:32:33.049+10:00Qu(ot)e?It's time for an Australian Enlightenment, where once again reason and facts prevail over mysticism and ignorance...An Australian Enlightenment would restore ideas to the place they have occupied over the last 5cm of the football field...Craig Emerson, Minister for Small Business, in The National Rupert Daily.Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-2492381322129212502008-08-18T10:11:00.003+10:002008-08-18T11:47:45.707+10:00Mor LOL Denylists"Dunno muj thrmodynamix but I no wut I like!"Global average energy budget of the EarthAs a follow up to Alan Siddons's refutation of the quaint nineteenth century notion of 'radiative equilibrium' - a theory now as thoroughly passe as Pythagoras's quaint idea that the Earth is spherical* - Jennifer Marohasy has posted this 'proof' from Bill Kininmonth that greenhouse gasses actually cool the Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-49692205544398725752008-08-17T10:54:00.000+10:002008-08-17T11:00:31.627+10:00But Would You Buy a Used Car From This Man?A FORMER male model who ran an illegal steroid and human growth hormone business now realised he could make more money as a legitimate Gold Coast real estate agent, a court was told yesterday.Brendan James Brophy, 28, pleaded guilty to 13 offences including importing and trafficking a variety of banned substances from his Ashmore home base from July, 2006, to March, 2007. He was sentenced to two Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-10512206436402780032008-08-16T14:02:00.001+10:002008-08-17T10:22:05.084+10:00If I Hadn't Been ROFLMAO, I Might Have Got Angry About ThisThere's one thing I've learnt to like about global warming obstructionists like Dr Jennifer Marohasy: their intellectual clowning on the subject is sometimes hilariously funny. Today (Saturday, August 16) excels herself by reproducing this argument from Alan Siddons of Holden, Massachusetts:Radiative equilibrium is one of the foundation stones of radiative forcing theory. But it is not a law of Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-10173575145459726782008-08-16T09:28:00.000+10:002008-08-16T09:46:26.747+10:00Of (Hairless) Mice, Men & MoisturisersSometimes it's what the reporters and editors leave out of news stories that makes them interesting - and alarming.Yesterday's Age included this story by Nick Miller:Mice moisturiser link to skin cancer criticisedCOMMON moisturiser creams including one sold in Australia have been shown to double the risk of skin cancer, in new US research. (original punctuation)The Age wasn't the only news outletGummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-12057906738443954812008-08-15T14:00:00.000+10:002008-08-15T14:05:11.050+10:00Who Needs State Controlled News Media?When your morning newspaper devotes the top half of every front page to the latest "Gold! Gold, gold, gold for Austraya!" moment and every television news broadcast begins the same?Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-36051684637053589242008-08-15T11:17:00.001+10:002008-08-15T11:54:31.932+10:00Anti-PC Beat Up of the WeekIn today's Age, Bridie Smith reports:VICTORIA'S curriculum is left-wing and is pressuring students to conform to the politically correct views held in school texts and by teachers to enhance their chance of academic success, a Melbourne tutor has warned...Why isn't the main clause of this sentence up the front where it belongs? Because that would make it too obvious that Smith is passing on an Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-46305221615198711372008-08-14T20:21:00.001+10:002008-08-14T22:36:51.142+10:00Greer Nails ItLast night's Lateline included a report on Germaine Greer's latest essay on Aboriginal men, and an interview with Greer herself. Greer was on song throughout the interview - interviewer Leigh Sales wasn't, right from the start:LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: And with me in the studio now is Professor Germaine Greer. Thank you for coming in. What I would like to do is take you through points raised in [Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879765.post-25348729067916733452008-08-13T13:05:00.001+10:002008-08-13T13:14:25.656+10:00Milli Vanilli to Stage Comeback in 2012?Sources inside the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games revealed today that 1980s lip-synch wonders Milli-Vanilli have been booked to perform at the opening ceremony of the London Olypics in 2012.It is also rumoured that the London opening ceremony will feature 2012 Boy Scouts and Girl Guides recreating the Blue Screen of Death displayed at the Beijing opening ceremony with flash Gummo Trotskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13793212800261216868noreply@blogger.com0