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DELICATE-FEATURED BOY WANTS BOMBING, SHAVE

Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:50:02 GMT

An Anarcho-Stupidist makes his point during George W. Bush's inauguration: Check the wan, sensitive, ethereal expression ... you cannot possibly know of my inner torment, you oil-minded Republican brutes! I exist on a higher plane! Oh, and let's bomb Texas! The guy in...

GOVERNMENT IS PRETTY

Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:31:48 GMT

The Age's Guy Rundle slams ugly Melbourne architecture, and asks:

How, in what was once one of the greatest of all 19th century cities, did we get to this point? The short answer, of course, is capitalism ...

That's Rundle's answer to every question that asks why something...

THE NIGHT THE SOLDIERS CAME

Mon, 24 Jan 2005 03:53:46 GMT

The Washington Post's Jackie Spinner meets a calm and reasonable Baghdad resident who turned against the US after ... well, you'll find out soon enough. The sequence of extracts below is altered from the original to more closely describe events as they are alleged to have occurred:

By all accounts, Imaad, 32, was a typical, mild-mannered college...

COMMENCE THE SWEEPING OF THE MILITANTS

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:10:53 GMT
Via LGF, news that Germany is getting serious:
German officials are drawing up lists of hundreds of Islamic militants to be deported from the country under a new law making expulsions easier, the German...

MARCHING, CHANTING COMMEMORATED

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:26:03 GMT
John Pilger -- one of the Australians who matter, according to a newspaper that doesn't -- will next month open a photographic exhibition to celebrate the peace movement's magnificent triumphs:...

ROTTEN PHENOMENON CONFRONTED

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:52:22 GMT
Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, whose previous remarks placed him firmly within Islam's "ridiculous maniac" wing, seems to have joined a more moderate faction:
As millions of faithful marked Eid Al-Adha yesterday, Muslims were warned against...

LAND OF SAD

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 07:48:04 GMT
The French are a nation of depressed pessimists, wracked with self-doubt and unable to see a positive future. Who says so? The French:
This gloomy portrait of the current state of Gallic morale - or rather the lack of it - was made public yesterday in a damning report by France's prefects, the country's top administrators. "The French...

BLAME THE DANES

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 07:41:52 GMT
Oh no! Iraqi prisoners are being mistreated. Americans aren't involved, however, so there's no need for any leftoid outrage:
A Danish army intelligence officer and four military police sergeants have been charged with mistreating Iraqi prisoners in southern Iraq last year. Captain Annemette Hommel was charged with four counts of negligence while on duty...

NEWS BRIEFLETS

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:07:38 GMT
* Italy's Joy of Knitting reports: "In the opening shots for the electoral campaign (there will be regional elections in April) Silvio Berlusconi, whose specialty is to get into trouble for stating the obvious, said that communism brought nothing but poverty and death. As was to be imagined, all hell broke loose." * Gordon King is...