Some good lines in the Onion this week.
Horoscope: “You love pointing out that you were raised by wolves, but you never mention that they were Harvard-educated, old-money Boston wolves.”
Condoleezza Rice: Sept. 11 Could Not Have Been Prevented Without Accruing A Lot Of Overtime
And for the last line alone, Jackie Harvey: “I know he’s our president, but did George W. Bush have to ruin television for a night? I know he had to give his State of the Union address, but why did he have to start it at 8:30? That meant America’s Idol had to be postponed, as did some of my other favorite Tuesday shows. We should all support our president in a time of war, but there have to be limits. Bumping America’s Idol constitutes an abuse of power.”

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/ looks handy if you need to place sites.
I also just signed up for a free fastmail account cos I’m sick of yahoo. My username is the same as my gaydargirls username (not that I check gdg anymore anyway).

Vegetarian food in Australia is good but could be better, according to this. It’s bloody luxury compared to the UK. I must remember to upload the photo of the supermarket near Mum’s with nine kinds of tofu for sale. Nine! I’m lucky to have one in any of the major-brand supermarkets near me.

Baby boomers are bad, mkay?
“Here is a generation that has lowered their marginal tax rate from 66 cents to 48 cents, sold off valuable infrastructure built over decades by their parents and grandparents to pay off their baby boomer government debt, and feasted on the fruits of tax-free capital gains on their homes, thereby perpetuating a housing market almost impossible to buy into. All this while bandying about the success of the anti-Vietnam War movement with infuriating smugness.
It is Neville’s “well-we-did-it-so-why-can’t-you” mentality that really makes gen Xers and Ys bristle.” (Age)

For Pete’s sake: “The next time a beggar approaches you on the street look carefully into their eyes. What will you see? It could genuinely be a homeless person in desperate need. But there is a chance that the person extending his tin cup will be managing a bank the following morning or running a large company.
A fad that has been in full swing in the United States for a few years – the “street retreat” – is about to take root in Britain. In this topsy-turvy world, stressed-out executives submit themselves to the ultimate exercise in regaining their perspective on life. They play at being a street bum for a few days and nights.” (Graniud)

Just got back from Devon and Cornwall. Had a lovely time, got the train to Plymouth, stayed overnight, broke hearts, picked up hire car then drove to Bugle to pick up hire bicycles and rode to the Eden Project (via a village called Bowling Green).
Stayed in a lovely but affordable hotel right on the beach in Falmouth, and spent today pottering around small coastal villages on our way back. Pub lunch overlooking the harbour and tall ships in Charlestown before heading back to Plymouth and the train back to London. Perfect weather, especially on Sunday.
Maybe spending long weekends in England isn’t too bad afterall.

Ahh, lovely. Just the right mood to head into Cornwall, leaving you big city folk behind.
“”The truth is that no Australian prime minister has ever put this country at greater risk and for the wrong reason than John Howard with this lock-step performance with George Bush on Iraq,” Mr Hawke said.”
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“Mr Hawke said the election, due later this year, was one of the most important ones facing the country as it was a chance to stop the Howard government from further dismantling the ethos of a fair go that Labor had brought to Australia.”
(Age)