Posted in christianity, news on Aug 13th, 2008
Rick Warren, of Purpose Driven Life fame, has appeared in TIME this week.
It’s fascinating to observe some of the differences between evangelicalism in the US and in Australia. Being a much, much more secular country, it’s almost too hard for Aussie Christians to conceive of how an evangelical could have so much clout in [...]
Posted in news on Aug 12th, 2008
Posted in news on Aug 12th, 2008
From The Big Picture.
More links and information
Russia seizes Georgia base, opens second front - Boston.com 8/11
Georgia Fight Spreads, Moscow Issues Ultimatum - NYTimes.com 8/11
Georgia - NYTimes.com Topics Page
South Ossetia War - Wikipedia Entry
Georgia - Wikipedia Entry
Posted in news on Aug 11th, 2008
In the body of an email sent to customers advertising an internet pre-sale offer for The Dandy Warhols, Ticketek accidentally included a dump of its email database.
Honestly.
From the SMH.
There’s some sort of major sporting event kicking off tonight (Teak—write something acerbic, will you please),
Apparently, someone hacked the official Olympics site, although I haven’t found any screenshots of what they did (make headlines orange. Wow—don’t hold back, guys.)
Now it looks like the Chinese (or someone) has hacked the protest site associated with the [...]
Posted in news on Aug 5th, 2008
Bill Gates doesn’t think philanthropy can solve the world’s poverty problems — but capitalism can.
This is Creative Capitalism.
Catchy.
Posted in anglicanism, news on Jul 2nd, 2008
In all my years as a journalist, first working on large city dailies, then Christian magazines, a brief stint as an Episcopal Diocesan Managing Editor and now as an Internet Online news writer, whose website annually draws more than 4 million readers from 172 countries, I have never encountered such appalling spin, outrageous lies, pure [...]
The first, front page article in the June edition of the South Sydney Herald:
Anti-homophobia rally closes Gloria Jeans
Despite the Rudd Government promising to remove all forms of anti-gay discrimination, about 100 people turned up for the International Day Against Homophobia rally in Newtown on Friday May 16.
The rally started outside Gloria Jeans, in response to [...]
Posted in news on Jun 13th, 2008
Thank God for this.
Posted in news on Jun 11th, 2008
I’ve never been much of a fan of Richard Glover, but he’s totally won me over. In Saturday’s Herald, he wrote the most commonsense article I’ve read on the the ‘crisis’ so far.
Basic message: it’s not going to be pleasant, but the market will adjust. And we’ll live through it.
Posted in anglicanism, news on Jun 10th, 2008
Read this interview with Patricia Brennan, president of the Movement for the Ordination of Women, and tell me it’s not libelous.
Someone on a forum cited part of the interview as a way of arguing that she’s not doing the MOW any favours by misrepresenting Sydney, but when I read the transcript myself, it sounds even [...]
Obama finally sinks it.
