Blessed are the tweetmakers?

unpublished rough, 25 April 2011

I’m pretty sure that our soldiers didn’t fight in all those wars just so that the head of the Australian Christian Lobby could crucify himself on twitter, but it’s a free internet, and at least now we know what sort of lobbying he’s doing when he’s lobbying our politicians.

And now they know we know, which is probably a good thing too.

Stop the protests

The Australian 25 April 2011

Okay, you’re fleeing from persecution by your government. You rather rudely fail to enquire about the queue on the spurious grounds that it doesn’t exist and blow all your savings on a luxury cruise to Australia, where naturally you are persecuted by the government and then you have the temerity to get upset about it!

Luckily, the dynamic duo Tony and Scott are on the case. Expect things to get much better very soon.

No bush burning without a permit

The Australian 14 April 2011

Good on Marrickville for having a crack at sorting out the Middle East, but if god had meant for local councils to get involved in foreign policy, he would have given us more Kevins. Many, many more Kevins.