RSS feedI like to think that I’m fairly principled about issues I’m passionate about, and the SMH going the registration route is certainly one of those, but without sounding too hypocritical, there’s just too many good stories at the moment to ban it from my daily reading list.
For example, here’s a sarcastic piece by Peter FitzSimmons about the exciting melee that is puppetry of the puerile co-star Alexander Downer vs. Peter Garrett, titled Bad boy can do some good. Talking about Downer’s lack of independence of thought, which has obviously assisted his foreign minister role quite well, well that and the fact that there’s a suburb in Canberra named after a family member, Sir John Downer, a 19th century premier of South Australia, FitzSimmons rather brilliantly writes:
Garrett has expressed views in his songs and his public pronouncements in such roles as president of the Australian Conservation Foundation that show he is not fit to join Australia’s “conga-line of suck-holes” leading up to the presidential throne.