Tim Blair

I have personally said many things I didn't mean to make a serious point -- as have many others on this site. Sometimes I even use a pseudonym. Would Henry consider me a liar?

Lighten up. If it isn't OK for Franken to impersonate a "Chasity activist" for the purpose of embarrasing Ashcroft, then it isn't OK for Kevin & Bean to embarrass Jacques Chirac by impersonating Jerry Lewis, and I frankly wouldn't want to live in a world where Jacques Chirac couldn't be humiliated.

When I click on the p&c link, I get an unable to locate server error.

We're moving to moveable type- stay tuned for updates, but should be back in 24 hrs.

My mum's blog was the original.

It just never went on line.

After the compulsory conversion to leftdom in her sixties, she took to ripping out op-ed pages from The Age, furiously underlining in red pen the more censorious bits from Hugh Mackay, Pamela Bone, Shaun Carney, Michelle Grattan and Robert Manne, adding her own comments in the margins, and attaching the articles to the refrigerator alongside the Community Aid Abroad calendar and Peace March circulars. (Family photos were relegated to the top of the TV, now perpetually tuned to ABC and SBS.)

A limited blog (fridgelog?) audience of family and friends would then add their own smart-alec comments and drawings. The forest of yellowing articles and overload of 'fridge magnets meant that occasionally a clump of them would fall off, revealing an early-nineties Mabo, a '96 Hanson protest or a '98 no-mandate for Howard's 48%.

A month or so ago, the 'fridge broke. A new one arrived, and a few days later, a new article appeared.

Hugh Mackay's last article for The Age. Red pen underlines everywhere.

I love that story, Pooh.

I ought to print it out and stick it on my fridge.

lol

Thanks for the link ....
-- Chris