Category Quick Posts

• Quick Post: Hope, For A Good War

  “Agricultural land has not increased at anything like the same rate [as population] so things are going to have to change, as simple as that.
  “[Either that] or you put up with the food riots, or hope for a good war to reduce numbers. These are not alternatives.”
  Professor Batterham is the deputy chair of a working group which advised Prime Minister Julia Gillard on food security.

  If there’s one thing I’m grateful for about having had a liberal education, it’s an appreciation for academic freedom.

  Posted 5 April 2011 | Author Liam Hogan

• Link: Executed Today

  BY THE WAY, AND SPEAKING OF 1994, if you aren’t reading Executed Today you’re missing out.

  Beavers may have embraced death, but that didn’t make him immune to the pleasures of the flesh.

  Last meal request: Six pieces of french toast with syrup, jelly, butter, six barbecued spare ribs, six pieces of well-burned bacon, four scrambled eggs, five well-cooked sausage patties, french fries with ketchup, three slices of cheese, two pieces of yellow cake with chocolate fudge icing, and four cartons of milk...

  Posted 4 April 2011 | Author Liam Hogan

• Quick Post: I'm Gonna Treat Ya To A Bruschetta Double Feature

  IN 1994, ROBERTO BAGGIO OF Italy mistook the crossbar for a highbar, and history was made. In Petersham, my friend Salv cried, Norton Street mourned, little Portugal on Stanmore Road cheered, and a larger bunch of high school kids learned lots of new non-English swear words from the cars passing by. Tu e la tua razza va f’an… what?

  Posted 4 April 2011 | Author Liam Hogan

• Political Quickie: Sartor vs. Obeid, Centre Unity Ultimate Fighting

  FRANK SARTOR’S OPEN LETTER to his brother begins thus:

  Posted 30 March 2011 | Author Liam Hogan