http://timblair.spleenville.com/ “Australia's finest blogger” - The Wall Street Journal “America's best political commentator” - Niall Cook en-us trblair@ozemail.com.au 2004-12-13T02:12:35+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008169.php Please visit the new site here.... 8169@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-13T02:12:35+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008168.php Great line from Iraq the Model's Omar, currently in Washington with his brother Mohammed: Yesterday I came to your country. Today, I met the President. Jeff Jarvis, a tireless and incredibly generous promoter of Middle Eastern bloggers, has more on... 8168@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-12T17:55:04+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008167.php A thriving coalition of election denialists has emerged in the wake of George W. Bush's victory. Compare the paranoid howlings from these people to the calm reason of Michael Moore. If only all anti-Bush activists were as rational. (Via Rob... 8167@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-12T14:56:34+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008166.php Remember how Australia's international reputation was completely destroyed in 2001 by our no-messing-around response to illegal immigration? Here's a collection of typical views: Our reputation abroad has changed dramatically for the worst. Australia's track record in relation to asylum-seekers has... 8166@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-12T03:21:06+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008165.php The Guantanamo Bay nightmare gets worse and worse. Here's The Guardian's latest shocking report: Fresh allegations about a regime of torture and humiliation inflicted on detainees by their American captors atGuantánamoBayhave been made by a Briton still held there, according... 8165@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-12T03:10:21+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008164.php You bastards: Herbert M. Hazelkorn, of Glencoe, Illinois, left us on December 7, 2004, of a broken heart at the recent passing of his wife of 35 years, Bobby, exacerbated by a broken spirit arising from the results of the... 8164@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-11T20:57:12+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008163.php Want to send a Christmas card to Michael Moore? Of course you do!... 8163@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-11T17:38:33+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008162.php Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been cleared of corruption. I guess this qualifies him as an official James Wolcott Hero for our Time following Wolcott's celebration of George Galloway's legal win. About which lawyer Damian Penny writes: "Wolcott, by... 8162@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-11T15:57:13+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008161.php Margo Kingston calls for nominations in the prestigiuo ... pretstigi ... important 2004 Webdiary Awards: 1. The most courageous Australian in 2004 2. The most cowardly Australian of 2004 3. The biggest Australian risk taker in 2004 4. The Australian... 8161@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-11T14:20:20+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008160.php Jim Treacher, whose nation still believes in the outmoded and barbaric concept of "not allowing oneself to be killed by burglars", offers some useful advice to the besieged British: • Hit the intruder's fists, knees, elbows, and feet with your... 8160@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-11T12:11:35+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008158.php Phillip Adams thinks he's being clever: There has to be a day of reckoning on this wretched war. And in that reckoning we need more information than a rollcall of dead Americans. After all the disinformation on Iraq, the surviving... 8158@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-11T02:20:18+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008157.php Accused South Australian Taliban fighter David Hicks, currently in US custody, claims he was beaten, injected with drugs, and invited to have sex with prostitutes. Congratulations, Guantanamo Bay officials, for making our boy feel right at home.... 8157@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-11T01:37:11+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008156.php The same brilliant artist who gave us this now presents his latest work -- a celebration of Hamas: The privately funded exhibition, on the exterior of an office building off a busy Melbourne laneway, depicts the faces of four Palestinians... 8156@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-11T01:14:29+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008155.php Well, not quite. Antony Flew isn't suddenly a Christian; he has undergone something of a conversion, however: A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now... 8155@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-10T14:39:18+10:00 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/008154.php Andrew Sullivan reports: The bad news is that Omar and Ali, the intrepid Iraqi bloggers, couldn't make our coffee date this afternoon. The good news is that they blew me off for the president of the United States. I think... 8154@http://timblair.spleenville.com/ 2004-12-10T13:53:06+10:00