This morning it seems that the papers are more interested in talking about the Oscars as they relate to the war rather than the war itself. Mike Moore in his acceptance speech for his Oscar for best documentary said in part:
we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious […]

At the end of February, the age newspaper ran an internet poll on the question “Who is the greatest threat to world peace?”. The results were:
Great Britain - 0%
Russia - 0%
China - 1%
None of these options - 1%
Israel - 6%
North Korea - 11%
Iraq - 11%
al-Qaeda - 13%
United States - 57%.

Mr President, I have just watched you on Sky news from my Australian home. You spoke about how those that mistreat the American prisoners of war would be tried as war criminals. I share your fear and agree with you in your threat but surely this must force you to evaluate other decisions that you […]

I recently had a conversation with a minister who serves a Church that is in the same local area as ours. I asked him what the feeling about the war with Iraq was at his Church. He told me that the event that had the biggest impact on his Church was when one of the […]

I just spent an hour at our church with some other people from our community praying about the Iraq situation. Three churches in our area provided an open invitation to prayer services between 4pm and 6pm today. Most of the time we were silent, but every 15 minutes a minister (in our case […]

I found this blog today. I might disagree with almost everything he says, but at least he makes me laugh. He quotes the human shields in Iraq as saying
““I had this awful thought that this might be our last supper, so I brought this,” he said, holding up a camera. “Makes you […]

In the spirit of my post yesterday about Leunig’s plain black box, I really like daniel’s journey today.

Last night I had a dream. I wish it was one of those cool poeticy Old Testament dreams, but I guess I have to take what I can get. It was a dream about an evil spirit (I kid you not - for those who know me this is especially bizarre). Sometimes my […]

Michael Leunig an Australian poet and cartoonist has published his cartoon in today’s Age - it is a black box - no humour, no prophetic comments, no snide remarks about the PM and George Bush, no scathing attacks on the logic behind it - just a black box.
For now, in this day, there is nothing […]

When Phil and I began this blog we said that we would only blogroll people that we have actually been reading regularly (with the exception of arguing with signposts, which I added the first time I knew about it and who simply must appear on the blogroll by virtue of the title of his blog […]