Tim Blair

I thought Margo was taking a month off. It's been barely 2 weeks. Are her math skills on the same level as her spelling ang grammar?

Jeez, I must channeling Margo! "ang"! I meant "and". Away, vile spirits!

Awwww, Hamish Alcorn: Margo's bruvver. Here he is (scroll down about a quarter of the way) warmly recommending Chomsky. I guess some things do run in families.

Nice red eye in Mr. Loewenstein's picture. These folks must be too cool for modern photo editing techniques as well as proofreading.

Hamish's bio states a preference for "libidinal bolognovism." He's turned on by bologna?

I thought they were New Balance sneakers, not Nikes...

Nope, you're right. Nikes.

I was happy to waste that time Googling to verify the sneaker brand - that's time better spent than reading the nothappyjohn site.

While I'm at it, does anyone else think "nothappyjohn.com" would serve more suitably as the URL for a site for unhappy customers of prostitutes? Like a Better Business Bureau, but with gonorrhea.

So they're gonna do another version of the DemocraticUnderground or Air America? Oughtta accomplish nothing while keeping 'em off the streets for awhile.

Burnout is a serious issue for activists

Especially when they blow themselves up on school buses.

Tell you what, Tim, if Australia really wants an "Australian version of moveon.org," why don't you just take ours. (I understand many of their supporters are planning on emigrating after November 2nd, so there should be plenty of moonba^H^H^H^H^H^H staff available.)

Put 'em somewhere in the middle of the outback with a 28K dialup connection. We'd all benefit.

So did they have to pay for their castrations out-of-pocket, or did the Australian health care system pick up the tab?

Reading about those jesters of journalism over at "Hot Nappy John" always makes my day. So a few layabouts with a second rate website are now 'activists', and are 'burntout'ha!

So, they are still fighting for democracy? Not the sort of of democracy we have just had though the democracy where everyone agrees with their agendas.

So finally an Australian 'lefty' admits that they get their ideas from US groups like moveon.

Along with their methods and even most of the words they write. Slavish blind followers. Poodles.

Do they want to be the moveon sherrifs downunder?

Antony Loewenstein reckons “it's not always easy being an Australian trapped in a universalist's body, especially when you've got a penchant for dissent.”

Would someone tell me precisely what he means by this? A literal reading suggests that while his bodily form may very well give the impression that he’s a debonair Citizen of the Universe (universalist), deep down inside he’s an unwashed provincial like the rest of us (Australian). Surely he wants to say the opposite?

Do you think “penchant for dissent” is supposed to rhyme, like “Dressed for Success”?

Antony “enjoys challenging the status quo,” quiet walks in the countryside, and compulsive masturbating.

Bruce — Nah, they'll settle for being gauleiters or block commissars down under...

Angie Schulz's link above to the rantings of Hamish Acorn includes this little gem:

"Noam Chomsky, who I've been telling Margo for years she should expose herself to..."

Too funny for words. Many an aspiring comedian could do worse than trawl the NHJ! site for comedy gold.

Apparently Kerry O'Brien repeated the '380 missing tons of RDX' verbatim, as leaked from Democrat headquarters to NYT who dutifully printed it. Now it is looking like another Jayson Blair-style fraud.

When will Australian mainstream media journos show a bit of independence, rather than just parroting their US Democrat masters? The same folly, merely parroting US Democrat material, could be said to have brought down Mark Latham.

Come on, ABC. The general public are not the fools you take us for!

OMG...one of your best eviscerations ever.

we are preparing for the next phase of the website and the “Defending Our Democracy” project.

But Australian democracy is dead! Margo itself said (on Media Watch, no less) that the re-election of the Howard government would be the end of democracy in Australia.

Re: "thankyou," in “Firstly, thankyou for your patience”

Dear Defending Our Democracy people,

And has THIS announcement been “edited, fairly and professionally,” so as not to “a free-for-all of poor spelling”?

Looks like “not.”

Should we send them lots and lots and lots of "possible links that [we] do not wish to be published"?

That would be fun.

(What is a "possible link"?)

Don't knock being a Margonaut until you've been one. I have. I ordered my Nike sneakers from eBay but they are too small and now I have blisters. I'm in Switzerland right now but I would certainly be meeting up with the rest of the team on Friday if I could. The issues raised in Margo's book are bigger than John Howard. They always were and always will be. That is why I personally objected to the cover and the title (as recorded in my chapter)