What about the waste? This doesn’t matter. Keynes said that burying stuff in the ground and digging it up again would be good for the economy. As crazy as that sounds, his modern-day disciples are faithful to the script.
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Analysts at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have some explaining to do. In the last two years some 900 mm of rainfall have been removed from the rainfall record of the Murray-Darling Basin.
Klu Klux UQ or how the University of Queensland is making universities and schools less “white”.
Every writer knows the moment when a vague story idea starts thickening into something much more real. For me, that often happens when I start getting the names of my main characters.
Andrew Marr: “A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother’s basements and ranting. They are very angry people.”
Gavin Atkins on Julia Gillard’s first 100 days: “Like all good disasters, there are always clues, and my bet says that this one is going to unravel in spectacular fashion.”
In using her Afghan visit to score cheap political points, Julia Gillard has gone too far.
Rodney Hide: “It’s a very significant book. It will save countless lives. These would be the lives lost should the world’s poor be condemned to the grinding poverty implicit in the now world-wide political goal of dramatically curtailing the use of fossil fuels.”
Hal Lewis: “My former pride at being an American Physical Society Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.”
Did you true-believers really imagine that the top priorities of the new 2010 parliament would be, in this order; Euthanasia, Gay Marriage, Poker Machines, upping the GST and a look at various schemes to increase the cost of electricity by 100%? Silly you!
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