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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: politics
DC Metro ridership figures show that the September 12 "Tea Party" rally was smaller than the September 24, 2005 anti-war march.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 4:25 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: politics
Glenn Reynolds says that a private listserv is a "scandal", despite having participated in such a thing himself.
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Category: politics
Windschuttle is still denying that he was hoaxed.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:19 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: politics
Via Sadly No!, we find out the latest from the SF authors who helped bring us Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative Now a fixture at Department of Homeland Security science and technology conferences, SIGMA is a loosely affiliated group of science...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:12 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: politics
John Quiggin writes about the culture warmongers: Third, and most importantly, the factoid-based, point-scoring, style of argument that goes with the culture wars eventually leads to complete insulation from factual reality. Any proposition, no matter how ridiculous, can be defended...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:10 PM • 39 Comments •
Category: politics
Caroline Overington has topped her previous effort with this: Top journalist Caroline Overington has denied hitting George Newhouse, the Labor candidate for the Sydney seat of Wentworth - but he insists he was slapped, and it hurt. ... A Labor...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:28 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: politics
Via James Hrynyshyn, Nature has a good summary of the state of climate politics in the lead up to Bali. There's even a decent summary of the state of play in Austrlia. Any campaign veteran will tell you that voters...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:33 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: politics
It's always good value when Media Watch criticizes The Australian because journalists there react with foaming-at-the-mouth outrage. For example, when Media Watch nailed them for misrepresenting Rajenda Pachauri they reacted with 4672 words blasting Media Watch, including the entire editorial,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:24 AM • 19 Comments •
Category: politics
A news.com.au story asserts "Australians would re-elect Prime Minister John Howard in a landslide if votes were cast purely on policy - not personality or party loyalty - according to the first results from a "blind voting" tool developed by...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:26 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: politics
David Roberts shows Your media at work: People magazine reports that Al Gore's daughter Sarah just got married, revealing in the course of the article that Chilean sea bass was served at the rehearsal dinner. In the Daily Telegraph, Australian...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:19 AM • 139 Comments •
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