Hit for six
(Charles Purcell/Sydney Morning Herald, 3.6.05)

What is the connection between Ricky Ponting and legendary Kings Cross drag queen Carlotta? If, indeed, there is one?

Peter Costello is hazardous to your health! This from yesterday's House of Reps Hansard:

Ms BIRD (Cunningham) (3.14 p.m.)—Mr Speaker, are members of this House covered by occupational health and safety legislation? Does the volume of the microphone conform to these laws when the Treasurer is screaming at the dispatch box?

The SPEAKER —I thank the member for Cunningham for her question. I will seek further information and come back to her.

JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, is the deployment of 15 troops to Sudan a preliminary deployment? Are there going to be more?

PRIME MINISTER: Well I wouldn�t rule out more but equally by saying that I�m not concealing the fact that we have already decided to send more. You get my meaning? You�ve got to be careful with these things.

- Press conference, Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, 20.4.05

And you thought it was Hal Holbrook all these years!

Former understudy to J Edgar Hoover, 91 year-old W Mark Felt has been outed today as Deep Throat.

Obviously Schapelle Corby has a fight on her hands.

So too, I might add, has the Australian government because people are legitimately saying why are we giving a billion dollars in tsunami aid, and why have 9 of our helicopter pilots giving their lives for a country which so transparently cares little about the humanity of individuals.

- Alan Belford Jones, Today Show, Channel Nine, 30.5.05

C-Span has the full 45 minute testimony by George Galloway to the US Senate Committee online now. But it's worth revisiting the UK election night. First, the declaration of the poll in Bethnall Green and Bow and Galloway's victory speech, in which he goes on to tip the bucket on the competence of the electorate returning officer.

What a week for the Brits! If it wasn't enough for that rude George Galloway being so impolite to those nice gentlemen from the US senate, we had British troops defiling Iraqi soil by miming a video of a catchy but best-forgotten 1971 hit single.

I've moved. I'm back. I'm online again. More about the reasons why later.

The world is different.

I'll be offline for short period while I am moving house. During that time this site won't be updated by me, although all the dynamically-generated content will carry on regardless. See you hopefully no later than the 19th!