I have been perusing the pages of The New York Times so you don’t have to.
With great sound and fury, the NYT recently opened up an office in this Wide Brown Land and the results have been odd, to say the least.
It’s hard to know who the Australian articles are written for. Are they for Americans to glean a greater understanding of a land so far away they couldn’t care less about it, or are they written for the meagre number of Australian subscribers who signed up during the US presidential election, only to forget to unsubscribe after all the votes were counted?
Either way, the Times fails miserably.
Full column here.
We seem to have missed the labor strife at the Gray Lady: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/its-happening-again/news-story/d608efe772c406eee9172b54369c9b93
Bodhisattva….wherever U are..here ya go…your signature tune is 1st up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxAItw7dIa8&list=RDKxAItw7dIa8#t=772
Very cool Bassy!
Good friend of mine died last night. Complications with catching a bug whilst his immune system was knocked out undergoing stem cell transplant. Bummer. big time.
So I’m off to France again for a month in September. Life is for living – not watching politicians fxxxk the joint up. I cannot even watch the news anymore.
But I will be watching Tassie boy, Richie, in the TDF which starts tonight. 🙂
Sorry to hear of the death of your friend. You are right. Enjoy every minute.
Yeah, Jack. The sad thing was that the stem cell transplant kicked in – but pneumonia and systemic failure was lethal.
Sorry to hear about your friend Boa.
Sorry to hear that about your friend, lost a friend a few years ago who had a successful kidney transplant but same circumstances in regard to infection.
Richie had a dismal last night and I don’t know if BMC team are good enough to get him the big prize, he certainly had to fend for himself in the Criterium.
Haven’t given up hope yet Tracy – because he can blitz the field up the hills. But you don’t win big races by being ”cautious”
…….and as you say, the BMC team has to be there for him – which they haven’t been
A bloke I worked with last year has upped stumps and gone off to France via Dusseldorf to watch the whole thing live. The things you can do when you’re single!
PS Sorry, commiserations about your friend too. We lost one out of the blue a few months back and it’s a shock.
Bodhisattva….so sorry to hear that…a while back i was in Tispotal for 11 days. Nobody could find out what the bug was…I was lucky I fought it orrff after 24 bags of Timentin through my arm…still didn’t stop it! Keep in touch when in Frogland.
Always reckon one has more chance of leaving hospital sicker than when entering, Bassy. I guess it’s an extreme risk being in there when the immune system is shut down. Luck of the draw really. For me it was especially sad, seeing that the stem cell had worked.
Only going to France in Sept. So am here to annoy/stir up fellow bloggers for a while. Have to kick my heels while having to have both hands operated on for carpal tunnel One at a time. . Bloody frustrating. RSI they tell me. Bizarre thing.
Great band, Bassy, with a great name – William Burroughs has a lot to answer for.
One of my favourite albums ever is Can’t Buy a Thrill.
My favourite album their first with the fantastic David Palmer singing Dirty Work
Can’t Buy a Thrill, brilliant album.
Some Space History news with your indulgence, Mr Insider, and a fabulous story about Scientist Margaret Hamilton, now 80yo, who wrote the Computer Code for the Apollo 11 Moon Landing and the subsequent other 5 successful landings in the late 60’s early 70’s. The attached article quite a fascinating story and pics on this brilliant and remarkable lady, how it was all done etc. A good read imho.
http://tinyurl.com/yat27dw2
A big bang theory of capitalism by PJ O’Rourke: http://www.weeklystandard.com/make-progress-exciting-again/article/2008576
The tedious old fart has really run out of ideas, or do old toothless conservatives just feed off the same old rehashed clichés ad nauseum?
Just a journeyman these days.
Do old left wingers retain their teeth then, JB?
Only the ones who support Collingwood
Yep they need them if they don’t revert to living on baby food. The cons cant seem to get enough of it.
Chuckle! How yer going now?
Does anyone have a better turn of phrase and insight into Australian politics than this bloke?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/liberals-in-a-struggle-for-control-of-partys-soul/news-story/dc12f9b862d02d367156b56175258903
Wraith, by a country mile.
ah…soul !
a spiritual journey, Raz.
I love all the anecdotes on the other side (some probably apocryphal) about how ignorant Americans are. Yeah. Right.
“I’ve visited the US,” says an acquaintance.
Me: “Where did you go?”
“Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York.”
*facepalm*
Reverse it then: “Ah’ve been to Orstralia”
Really, where did you go?
“Vienna, Salzburg…”
I hit Lienz as well. Pretty! *laugh*
I have been asked about the language problem living here when in the US. There is one, but it’s not what they had in mind. I do speak a bit of German on a regular basis, but it’s to an elderly Swiss couple and an old German engineer.
Does anyone know what this is really about? Having a man not exactly known for his intelligence as your spokesman is a worry for a start!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/cricket/worst-crisis-since-1970s-world-series-cricket-split/news-story/ccbed638681322f90fb81bd34addb961
Complicated but Cricket Australia wants to change the revenue sharing agreement with the players that has been in place now for almost ten years. CA says it wants more money to fund the game at grassroots level. The players want the revenue sharing to remain not for their salary packages but for the players both male and female who come after them. Both positions are perfectly valid and unrelated to greedy cash grabs. A difficult situation made worse by te fact there are very few exoerienced high end mediators like say Bob Hawke in this country these days.
Many thanks JTI.
Nothing in the Friday NYT print edition. Swans are back in good order. Would have been a bloodbath if some of those behinds had found the mark. Bugg will be walking the dogs for a while.
Six weeks possibly more. He made some effort to express regret after the game but it was a nonsense really. He said he had no intention to harm Mills. That is palpably false. I don’t know if Bugg has much of a future in the AFL.
Only caught the last 1/4 but what a terrific game by Carlton. I tore up the ticket but I got an honest effort. Until Adelaide’s last goal I thought they would pull it off. Great scoreline – 11.5. The forwards knew where the big sticks were.
Turned the footy over a bit too often. Take six turnovers off Carlton and they would probably have won. These thigs will change as the group plays more footy together. By the way, Charlie Curnow is a ripper. Took 11 marks probably eight contested yesterday. Will have his big brother’s tank soon and then look out.
Paul Roos has again called for the send off rule Jack, with some good logic. Take any match, but especially a GF, a gun player is taken out, fails the concussion test and takes no further part in the game. It could well sway the result with restricted rotations. Roos idea of a “sqareup” makes sense. The AFL says umpires could make mistakes, now there’s a novel concept.
That’s the problem. The umps on the ground can make mistakes. Perhaps two members of the MRP in the stands watching video could make an assessment. In the case of the Bugg incident, I can’t see any problen sending him off. Absolute dog act.
give. the umpires a hand….like video footage
they could hand out a few more at the same time, way too much sniping, cheap shots etc
OT, this is not funny:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/bacon-attack-on-muslim-girl-uk-man-jailed/news-story/29cc79efcd386f6b838000850e2bd4f5
But it is.
It was only amusing in that the offender received a jail sentence, IMO.
overheu can ponder this
A ham-fisted effort from the offender, who probably told a few porkies along the way. The pen’s too good for him and he should be hog-tied as well.
It was one of the rasher acts I’ve come across recently.
Sorry Jack, but the concept amused me, not the act.
https://www.nytimes.com/section/world/australia. I’ve also had a peekaboo at the specific section in the Grey Lady and not found much to my outré tastes.
The coverage of Europe and Asia is much better.