I started following John McCain on Twitter. Today he’s talking about pork. Political pork. Does he not realise the election is over. And he lost. He no longer matters, surely.
Tag: Twitter
Devine intervention
Miranda Devine sparked controversy by pre-emptively blaming green policy for the fires in the SMH last week. There was an outcry. I even wrote about it. I started following a fake Miranda Devine on Twitter (there’s also a fake Andrew Bolt) – but I can’t link to them because Twitter is down again.
The same venerated publication has another scribe – who leans more to the left – Elizabeth Farrelly. She fired this verbiage seemingly in the direction of her colleague in her take on events.
“Cut the trees! Burn the undergrowth! Hunt the sharks! Lynch the greens! Reprise, repay, repel. But in truth, to swim fish-filled, murky waters at twilight is to tattoo a big ‘BAIT’ sign on your behind. And to inhabit the bush, especially as climate change takes hold, is to make yourself fuel.
Certainly, we should feel compassion. And certainly, there should be regulations. Quite probably there should be more assiduous back-burning. But to blame green policies – to cull already endangered shark species, to reduce tree cover – is to blame nature for human folly.”
Now all the Herald’s big guns (except Annabel Crabb and Peter Hartcher who both write exclusively about politics) have had their say on the matter.
Dead bird smelly
There’s a joke I was told once about a Native American named “dead bird smelly”. I can’t find it online and that’s a travesty. It’s very similar to the joke about the kid named refrigerator.
Speaking of dead birds… Twitter is broken. Again. It is apparently the most regularly broken social networking site.
Does anybody out there use Twitter? I confess I am not seeing the point. It seems to be an acquired taste. I know it’s great for reporting news events in the US because it’s reached critical mass there… and our pollies have jumped on board. I have eight friends that I am following on Twitter – far short of the number of my friends on Facebook which seems to serve essentially the same purpose.
Maybe it’s just me. I also haven’t figured out exactly what I should be putting in my tweets – most of the other people’s I’ve read seem to be either obscure or mundane… if you do use it, and you want to follow me – here I am.
I have finally got an inbox wi…
I have finally got an inbox with no unread items. I may have cheated by marking all as read.
Thinks it spoils the magic whe…
Thinks it spoils the magic when Kerry O’Keefe appears on TV.
is constantly trying to keep h…
is constantly trying to keep his unread google reader items under 1000+
wonders how my twitter updates…
wonders how my twitter updates will ever compare with Malcolm Turnbull’s “is addressing the nation”
refuses to be defined by the s…
refuses to be defined by the slogan on a novelty t-shirt
is counting down the minutes u…
is counting down the minutes until the weekend. And looking forward to liveblogging a garage sailing expedition tomorrow morning.
I’m cutting back on my GReader…
I’m cutting back on my GReader subscriptions – far too many for me to handle.
I like the new google reader l…
I like the new google reader layout. In fact I like most of the things about google reader. I’m turning into a regular google fan boy.
I will never understand cat pe…
I will never understand cat people.
I want to go home but I brokes…
I want to go home but I brokes the interweb…