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I tipped the Newt to get the nomination way back, like before all his staff quit.

But seriously, how long ago was it that folks here told me I was wrong about the Newt, that Romney would romp home and his remaining challengers were Cain and Paul? Newt is a pro politician, his GOP rivals underestimated him to their detriment, Obama would be ill advised to do the same.

Most of the progressive reforms in this country have been driving by the the Labor unity faction actually, first by Keating and Richardson in the eighties/early nineties then by Rudd. Even this recent same sex marriage business, the Labor left officially endorsed it 1999 and have been pushing...

Yes thankyou but discussions about effective government is best left to those who believe there actually should be a government.

Re: The Official Cricket Thread I agree mostly, Pattinson and Cummins are showing excellent potential though beware of investing too much hope in players so green. Harris has as you said performed well at most opportunities. Siddle has been honest and consistent but really, he's the bowler you...

Re: The Official Cricket Thread Nah, in 2006 Cook was really bad at not moving his feet and prodding tentatively at balls outside off. He has improved out of sight now, a complete batsman but he had big problems early on.

Re: The Official Cricket Thread In Hughes defence his showing of late has been much like Alistair Cook's 2006/2007 Ashes performance, drawn into edging balls that were moving away by more experienced bowlers. He looks, as one might expect, like an inexperienced batsman not a talentless one...

Re: The Official Cricket Thread The mismatch in batting stature is extraordinary, Sehwag, Gambhir, Dravid, Tendulkar and Laxman all absolutely tower over the career achievements of all the aussies except Ponting and Hussey who are desperately out of form. The bowlers are sort of ok matched, and...

I said if someone goes down the "women just aren't funny" road, you didn't actually say that. You made me think of people who say it, but what you actually said didn't bother me.

I imagine so, and you think TJ is more indulgent than Trioli? TJ and Leigh Sales are virtually the only interviewers at auntie at the moment I can stand, Cassidy, Ulhman, Brockie, Trioli etc. I suppose TJ actually comes across like he knows his stuff well enough to be a smug know it all, Ulmhman...

So help me god if someone starts off on an "are women funny"? On of my favourite moments of schadenfreude was when I was watching a comedy night in Glebe this year and got talking to, as it turned out, one of the support acts at the bar before the act who went the whole "women just aren't...

Was the one I had in mind when I wrote it actually, just a kind of contagious misanthropy that starts with one character and just radiates through the whole cast. You like WH?

Kitty Flanagan, Bill Bailey, Nina Conti, Michael Workman, Tommy Dean, Judith Lucy. Seen some other pretty good stuff online but only prepared to make calls on people I've seen live, not to be a cliche but live is a completely different experience.

Just watch The Bolt Report

Do you normally watch Qanda? It's one thing to not always watch insight, it's another much more hypocritical thing to bitch about Qanda being lightweight when you don't try to watch the more meaty programs.

You're kidding right? One right wing nutjob ranting about the abc, a head in the clouds/I wish real life was the West Wing novellist pretending to be a journalist, a competent analyst who gets a word in every fifteen minutes, an interview too short and too broad to actually be anything...

Because contracts drawn up while parties are drunk so often carry the full force of the law?

You really hate women don't you?

Perchance anyone who was still alive at the beginning of the Cold War? Edit: Never mind, I don't speak for all feminists, they aren't a unified bloc, they come in all forms. I can't reconcile the view that Rape is a completely asexual act and anyone feminist or otherwise who believes it I...

Oh right, no idea, I'd need to do a lot more reading before I'd be ready to make a call on that.