August 13, 2003

COLUMN TIME

Mentioned in this week’s Continuing Crisis column for The Bulletin: gentlemen's beaver hats, George W. Bush, Amrozi, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marie Trintignant, Bertrand Cantat, Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Ayrat Vakhitov, Andrei Bakhitov, crazy screaming ABC people, and Indira Naidoo.

UPDATE. Excellent letter in this edition from Timothy P. Jones:

Tim Blair was skating on thin ice with his comments about the deaths of Saddam's sons. The issues raised as a result of the war against Iraq are so contentious, it is virtually impossible to have a consistent argument. Witness the following.

Did Saddam and his pricks of sons have the right to terrorise their own people as they apparently did? No.

Did I agree with the protest against the US and its allies for planning to start the war against Iraq on, what now appears to have been, false pretences? Yes.

Am I satisfied that it is right to murder Saddam and his sons? No.

Is the world a better place without regimes such as that under Saddam and his sons? Yes.

Do I agree with everything that Tim Blair wrote in his column? No.

Do I admire Tim Blair for having the courage to write his opinion with such passion and conviction? Yes.

Life is simple; there is the known and the unknown. Keep the blades sharp, Timbo, and continue skating. But watch out for the ice-holes!

Posted by Tim Blair at August 13, 2003 03:30 AM
Comments

The least the ABC could do would be to put a PayPal button on their Web Site......

Posted by: James Dudek at August 13, 2003 at 04:56 AM

Tim, you rule. You're my favorite foreign blogger and if weren't for Denbeste, you'd be tops overall. Looking forward to hearing what you think of the mini, though imo, it's too tiny for US traffic jams (wouldn't intimidate a moped).

Posted by: Phillip at August 13, 2003 at 09:33 AM

Here in the states, we measure temperature by the old Farenheit formula. Therefore 100 degrees Fareinheit = 37.7 degrees Celsius (if the conversion formula I remember from grade school is accurate). Still a bit more than 34.8 degrees, but not much.

Sorry Tim, but I suspect you’d rather have this pointed out by a fan than a troll.

Posted by: Sean at August 13, 2003 at 09:59 AM

Yes, Sean, but I didn't write that. The 34.8 figure refers to the temperature in England. The 100 mark refers to Crawford, Texas.

Posted by: tim at August 13, 2003 at 11:34 AM

Can someone please redesign The Bulletin's website.

I mean design it.

Posted by: pooh at August 13, 2003 at 12:15 PM

"Did I agree with the protest against the US and its allies for planning to start the war against Iraq on, what now appears to have been, false pretences? Yes."

Since the allegation of false pretences is itself false does Mr. Jones oppose the Iraq Campaign because anything done by Bush's America must be opposed? Yes.

"Am I satisfied that it is right to murder Saddam and his sons? No."

Do American soldiers have the right to kill people shooting at (and wounding) them? No, not if the shooters turn out to be Saddam's spawn.

Oh, and "murder?" Monkey manure.

Posted by: Michael Lonie at August 13, 2003 at 04:27 PM

Wow. Indira costing 86 grand a year for that feedback program - unbelievable. And you can a flght from Adelaide to Sydney cost $1000? She taking the nearest lear jet or something?

Posted by: Tom at August 13, 2003 at 08:36 PM