george takei rocks my world

It's cheap, but it treats the clown with the (lack of) respect he deserves.

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heading for a nervous breakdown

Wow. This week is turning into the week the federal liberal party starts to seriously lose the plot. First up is this SBS Insight show (from roadtosurfdom). Michael Mori, Terry Hicks, constitutional law experts were arguing against Phillip Ruddock and one of the US prosecutors. To say that Ruddock does extremely badly is to understate the case. Darryl Mason has a summary at the roadtosurfdom link. Ruddock attempts to claim things such as "Hicks is entitled to a presumption of innocence" and that the Australian government had never been happy with Hicks' internment. The moderator of the show called Ruddock on his dissembling pretty much immediately, and Terry Hicks also confronted Ruddock directly. It's awful, compelling television. Some points to Ruddock for agreeing to this and showing up. And once again, massive points to Maj Michael Mori. His passionate advocacy for Hicks is a wonderful example of the very very best that the US military can be. I hope he's not subject to the same fate as the US military lawyer Charlie Swift.

Meanwhile, Lexy Downer goes from calling the majority of Australians terrorist sympathisers to getting pwn3d by Tony Jones on Lateline.

Yesterday, the Father of The Nation Howard accused Rudd of "being a bit full of himself" for criticising him.

And today, we had Downer and Nelson spinning like their pants were on fire over the UK pullout in Iraq.

Madness. If things don't change soon, there won't be a liberal party by the election, they'll just explode.