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» 7/10/2014 8:55:20 AM The writer has overlooked hair extensions as a means of disguise. Perhaps all hair should .....
» 9/07/2014 1:35:51 PM I have long given up on trying to understand the catholic attitude on marriage - especiall.....
» 30/06/2014 9:17:40 AM An article driven by sheer desperation - a new low of casuistry even for Sells......
» 22/04/2014 11:40:32 AM The author obviously has no idea as to exactly what socialism is qua political philosophy......
» 16/04/2014 12:59:36 PM The ABC is the our final line of defense between being an informed and aware society, and .....
» 7/04/2014 7:58:41 AM It mystifies me that even in a country that generally has no idea as to satire, most peopl.....
» 3/04/2014 8:11:51 AM Poor old Aunty ABC! No matter which way she goes, those who disagree will find a 'hidden a.....
» 15/01/2014 9:57:07 AM The sort of credulous rubbish put forward by SHRODE is an example of the very basis of the.....
» 28/11/2013 8:29:46 PM The first two paragraphs say it all. Right wing conservatives have always instinctively pr.....
» 24/10/2013 7:34:01 PM Hasbeen - with due respect to your actions as a volunteer, I would rather see the firies f.....
» 24/10/2013 12:55:22 PM I find it hard to believe that any rational sane person could write and believe this rubbi.....
» 12/09/2013 10:39:46 AM Another load of pseudo mystical hogwash from Sells. I frankly admit to giving up about hal.....
» 5/09/2013 3:59:12 PM Q. What can we expect from a coalition government on social welfare? A. Nothing.....
» 5/09/2013 12:03:47 PM Tony Abbott (together with the assortment of kooks, misfits, incompetents, and reconstitut.....
» 3/07/2013 12:30:27 PM A diagnosis of 'mental illness' - ie a consistent aberrant behavioral pattern within defin.....
» 24/04/2013 9:04:42 AM An excellent article, and one that, as the title claims, can provide a workable basis for .....
» 17/04/2013 7:10:59 AM A good article - the central theme of equality in education is one that no reasonable pers.....
» 16/04/2013 8:38:46 AM As a past university student, I have studied externally, internally, part time, and full t.....
» 10/04/2013 12:23:49 PM What would happen? Nothing!.....
» 26/03/2013 10:33:19 AM A wonderful, well written article that sums up my thoughts very well. Thank you Brian.....
» 26/03/2013 10:26:38 AM Certainly the role of an opposition is to oppose, but to oppose simply for the sake of opp.....
» 22/03/2013 10:56:38 AM The tabloid form of the once proud Sydney Morning Herald is a journalistic disaster. I exp.....
» 22/03/2013 10:47:29 AM Rhosty - it is even worse than that. The generators in temporarily backing off do not redu.....
» 18/03/2013 6:04:34 PM This article assumes the familiar myth that private enterprise is always more efficient in.....
» 15/03/2013 10:35:22 AM Well said John Turner. I too went to some considerable trouble to be part of that Q and A .....
» 26/02/2013 10:08:01 AM I would reverse the position espoused by Locke to read 'our first and chiefest interest is.....
» 20/02/2013 7:15:57 PM Incredible as it seems, there are people who are sufficiently ignorant, and sufficiently b.....
» 29/01/2013 5:12:31 PM It is regretfully fully predictable that an article such as this will bring out the usual .....
» 30/10/2012 8:18:21 AM 'Let his policies do the talking'? What policies would they be? - apart that is from a rel.....
» 28/09/2012 8:56:29 AM The Australian record of violent protest generally concerns tangible social issues. Religi.....
» 31/08/2012 9:30:05 AM I largely agree with the author. For most other politicians the interview would have been .....
» 11/07/2012 9:32:57 AM A good article - however tends toward over generalization. I am on the age pension, and th.....
» 9/06/2012 10:33:46 AM Poor old 'runner'! Still flogging the fast dying horse (should that be unicorn?)of biblica.....
» 3/01/2012 1:22:16 PM Be all this as it may, and much of it is arguably doubtful, the fact still remains that th.....
» 22/12/2011 10:06:38 AM More bible inspired drivelling rot. Not a mention of the thousands of people driven from t.....
» 12/12/2011 10:40:44 AM A load of unmitigated emotive drivel, obviously penned by a religious bigot with no compun.....
» 18/10/2011 1:53:43 PM Well said ZandR. I am an avid ABC watcher and listener, and have been for many years. I ha.....
» 7/10/2011 9:06:11 AM I have not read the book under review, and have no special intention of doing so - hence I.....
» 21/09/2011 10:08:39 AM A well written and thoughtful essay. At last some explanatory writing on economic policy t.....
» 15/08/2011 9:20:30 AM A very good extract. Regretfully, that section of the community that one would hope would .....
» 11/08/2011 12:31:08 PM The article seems to me to well summarise the existing situation, although perhaps a bit p.....
» 26/07/2011 12:10:27 PM A very worthwhile and timely article that should make the more thoughtful among the reader.....
» 20/06/2011 10:21:42 AM Very well said, and a refreshing touch of reality to the lies and distortions that are com.....
» 4/05/2011 9:01:22 AM Proud to be a muslim? What can you be talking about! Your religious 'faith' arises from yo.....
» 18/04/2011 9:54:37 AM Well said David. Being god's chosen people gives Israel virtual carte blanche in the eyes .....
» 11/04/2011 9:03:45 AM The writer must be really naive if she genuinly believes that the original female 'hysteri.....
» 2/03/2011 12:55:48 PM The school chaplaincy program (rightfully referred to as a Trojan horse by an earlier post.....
» 7/01/2011 8:03:58 PM 'A book on Howard and the Liberal party is long overdue .....' Why bother? As a person How.....
» 24/12/2010 11:36:35 AM Words pretty well fail me to express my contempt for this load of canting rubbish, except .....
» 15/12/2010 6:20:09 PM Well said Glen. You could also have mentioned that the Judeo/Christian tradition has it th.....
» 13/12/2010 10:37:36 AM I have yet to see the film, but the screenplay seems to be by George Pell......
» 10/12/2010 9:52:05 AM They kicked out Australia also, after over six hundred deaths, countless injuries, immense.....
» 8/12/2010 11:42:01 AM An excellent summation of the aims and achievemnts of the dedicated people who worked tire.....
» 1/12/2010 10:44:23 AM It is difficult to defend spirituality in that it is difficult to defend anything that doe.....
» 15/11/2010 8:47:44 AM Any resemblance between the present day Liberal/Howardism party and the stated liberal ide.....
» 6/10/2010 10:39:49 AM I hope that OLO was well paid for this outrageous piece of advertising cunningly disguised.....
» 9/09/2010 10:57:21 AM Very well said Glen Coulton. The legally enforced availability of so called 'scripture' le.....
» 7/09/2010 12:11:26 PM Dear Diver Dan Which tradition? - suicide bombing? molestation of children by various prie.....
» 23/08/2010 11:28:33 AM 'Psychic' powers are non existent, and those who claim to have them are either liars or de.....
» 16/08/2010 10:53:35 AM Well said Jane - hardly a point on which any rational person would disagree. No doubt we w.....
» 28/07/2010 1:36:03 PM Traditional medicine is, for the most part, rubbish - by virtue of the readily observed fa.....
» 2/07/2010 11:54:09 AM Whilst the nomenclature is doubtful in that perhaps the term 'ethics' in this context coul.....
» 18/02/2010 11:27:16 AM There can be no 'reconciliation' between nonsense and scientific evidence, regardless of h.....
» 14/01/2010 10:47:04 AM This article seem to me to contain the germ of an excellent idea - however it is doomed to.....
» 29/12/2009 3:38:24 PM Christmas or Ramadan - it is all rubbish. A celebration of nonsense based on ignorance and.....
» 16/12/2009 11:06:35 AM At last some common sense re atomic power from people who can reasonably claim to know som.....
» 4/12/2009 6:19:13 AM Any search for intellectual rigor and consistency in the 'book of myths' is doomed to fail.....
» 20/11/2009 10:22:34 AM I had the misfortune to be tuned to Radio National when Joe's rambling personal apologia w.....
» 12/10/2009 1:50:43 PM Further to Ozandy's point, and as an addendum to my own earlier comment, I would suggest t.....
» 12/10/2009 11:06:48 AM I personally saw the 'Hey Hey' sketch as being a send-up of racial prejudice, and black-fa.....
» 27/08/2009 10:12:45 AM Although not a professional medical person i find this article refreshingly frank and in m.....
» 21/08/2009 1:23:54 PM In view of the on-going stream of revelations re catholic (and indeed other christian deno.....
» 20/08/2009 3:56:45 PM It must surely come as no surprise to to pretty well everyone with a modicum of intelligen.....
» 18/08/2009 12:40:59 PM Ye (non-existent) gods! 'Runner' posting some sense? Spoiled of course by the inherent bib.....
» 18/08/2009 9:59:47 AM An article that makes substantial sense to me - being a AGW skeptic, and also totally oppo.....
» 3/08/2009 1:05:34 PM The hopeless bigot and bible-bashing 'Runner' being admonished to shame? No chance! To fee.....
» 22/07/2009 11:12:44 AM It is hard to imagine an article that more adequately portrays the problem in its own pres.....
» 12/05/2009 10:19:29 AM We need another Thatcher? One was enough thanks! Take a drive through the devastated valle.....
» 11/05/2009 12:45:05 PM There has been many good articles published in OLO, and unfortunately a fair amount of cra.....
» 6/04/2009 2:59:03 PM A concise and lucidly presented argument. Whilst I lack the expertise to comment on the su.....
» 16/02/2009 12:34:53 PM Is there even the slightest whiff of proof for any of this surreal nonsense?.....
» 5/02/2009 2:45:19 PM World Youth Day - or should that be 'World Catholic Rip-off Week'. A disgraceful and tawdy.....
» 29/01/2009 11:30:05 AM Another round of applause for Sells. What a beautiful post-modern narrative! It now seems .....
» 20/01/2009 10:48:04 AM Dear Francis 'God' hasn't done anything - there is no such thing. It is the nonsensical,.....
» 19/01/2009 11:13:59 AM A thought provoking article, and one that indroduces aspects of the Palestine tragedy that.....
» 8/01/2009 11:48:01 AM Whilst trying not to laugh at the rantings and doom-laden evangelical sentiments expressed.....
» 22/12/2008 2:21:27 PM The same tired old pseudo/philosophical claptrap, containing all the usual unsubstantiated.....
» 1/12/2008 12:25:12 PM ...'turn the Jews into a minority population in their own state'..? some sort of joke perh.....
» 25/11/2008 11:05:04 AM I have yet to read the trilogy of books promoted, and probably never will - however I note.....
» 17/11/2008 11:01:42 AM Well said John Pilger. One point that I believe requires more attention is the line in the.....
» 4/11/2008 11:34:28 AM Mr Right seems to be of the opinion that what people believe matters little - it is what t.....
» 4/11/2008 10:38:14 AM An excellent article - one that says it all. The final paragraph sums up the entire situat.....
» 3/11/2008 1:36:03 PM I have travelled a little bit, and have yet to meet an American that I didn't like. This b.....
» 23/10/2008 3:16:08 PM The central issue here as I see it is not the right or wrong pertaining to the death penal.....
» 21/10/2008 6:44:42 PM A rather rambling essay that does not actually address anything. The 'apostle's creed' spe.....
» 17/10/2008 11:22:56 AM There must be few people more tired of Peter Costello's vociferous posturing than I am. Au.....
» 9/10/2008 11:07:15 AM This article describes a situation that is an enormous cause for concern. There is no gre.....
» 7/10/2008 10:27:39 AM A timely and thought-provoking arrticle - I have long pondered these matters myself. There.....
» 27/09/2008 11:28:41 PM Hamlet You make some very good points - by and large I agree with all that you say. Howeve.....
» 23/09/2008 11:08:53 AM I have read extensively on health and physical fitness over the years, and I have never re.....
» 17/09/2008 10:40:02 AM The writer's comments seem to me to describe Mr Turnbull very well. I also agree that Mr R.....
» 30/08/2008 9:23:42 AM At last the author comes out of the closet! It now seems that factual accuracy - ie scient.....
» 11/08/2008 3:53:56 PM Well written and, in my view, true. Whilst I do not deny climate change, I have long held.....
» 8/08/2008 1:05:59 PM Regardless of any real or imagined deficiencies contained within the new policy framework,.....
» 4/08/2008 2:26:00 PM Whether the climate is changing at all is controversial even among scientists working in t.....
» 31/07/2008 9:37:00 PM A good article - right on the button. However people such as Pell et al have long demonst.....
» 22/07/2008 2:18:55 PM Although I am not a medical person, I have a profound interest in health and fitness, espe.....
» 11/07/2008 2:08:45 PM The distinction between morals and ethics is an important distinction - ethics are the fun.....
» 9/07/2008 4:03:29 PM I see that the writer has, regretfully, ignored my suggestion that he offer himself as the.....
» 8/07/2008 2:16:03 PM Well said, David. Those readers who may wish to thoughtfully pursue some of the points ma.....
» 7/07/2008 8:18:15 PM A bit more of the usual canting rubbish from the god-squad. The very notion of the 'god of.....
» 14/05/2008 2:23:46 PM Reply to 'Under One God' I rest my case. Your inane rantings says it much better than I ca.....
» 14/05/2008 11:16:34 AM The sympathy left over from the horrors of the holocaust is becoming very much overworked......
» 10/03/2008 12:59:44 PM Further to my earlier comment - thanks again Foyle. I have had a good look at the site you.....
» 10/03/2008 11:45:03 AM An excellent article - one written by someone who clearly sees the American right religiou.....
» 29/02/2008 9:40:55 AM This somewhat disjointed personal apologia makes some sort of case for pantheism, and none.....
» 20/02/2008 8:06:10 PM A long winded exegesis of the now quite common objection to atheism - ie that such a belie.....
» 9/01/2008 12:35:42 PM Although I must say that I hadn't heard it expressed as a Fermi problem, the technique des.....
» 2/01/2008 11:28:09 AM Yet another academic bleating about the alleged Howard economic success story. John Howard.....
» 31/12/2007 1:31:20 PM As a lover of music, especially the style generally (and innacurately) known as 'classical.....
» 17/12/2007 1:36:35 PM Excellent article - tells what every intelligent person knows. The tragedy is that there i.....
» 7/12/2007 2:16:12 PM Mr Bertrand - are you on the level? in addition to the many factual errors in this piece o.....
» 6/12/2007 11:10:26 AM The author got one thing right - many people voted against Howard rather than for Rudd. In.....
» 6/12/2007 10:55:14 AM There is undoubtable some cheer to be gained from this analysis - however I believe that t.....
» 5/12/2007 11:23:41 AM The situation described is fully predictable, and indeed is well known. Scarcely a month g.....
» 3/12/2007 12:14:31 PM Dear BOAZ Having noted some of your many comments in OLO I am in no way surprised by the i.....
» 3/12/2007 9:22:15 AM A very good article, if perhaps a little idealistic. As a unionist who raised my family, a.....
» 30/11/2007 12:58:21 PM It is of concern to note that the author of this article simply assumes the doubtful right.....
» 30/11/2007 12:33:50 PM Good article. The simple fact is that JH, thankfully, went a bridge too far with workchoic.....
» 5/11/2007 11:22:29 AM The first few lines says it all, although a casual glance at an everyday GP surgery waitin.....
» 31/10/2007 10:35:08 AM In my view the writer makes some very good points. As a long time trade unionist I would b.....
» 15/10/2007 2:19:19 PM A good article. All that the limping health care system needs is another layer of bureaucr.....
» 12/10/2007 11:39:49 AM I never thought that I would see the day that I would have any basis for agreement with a .....
» 10/10/2007 10:29:14 AM Questions of Malcolm Turnbull's suitability for the top job apart, anything would be bette.....
» 9/10/2007 2:22:45 PM An article of faith to regard the Israel state as right and legitimate and deserving of ou.....
» 4/10/2007 1:23:56 PM A perceptive article, although I am not sure that Labor strategists have applied the depth.....
» 27/09/2007 4:01:46 PM Reply to Shadow Minister' Presumeably then, if we turned to a full slave economy, producti.....
» 27/09/2007 12:24:50 PM It is indeed gratifying to note that a respected and economically literate academic sees t.....
» 24/09/2007 5:35:48 PM A quick comment to Runner - a practice I normally avoid. Runner - why do you and so many o.....
» 24/09/2007 2:18:46 PM Too complicated? This pigheaded dupe of the far right wouldn't recognise a principle if it.....
» 24/09/2007 1:46:49 PM As something of an ABC/SBS tv addict I can but agree with the article and the two foregoin.....
» 24/09/2007 11:43:06 AM Perhaps the time wasted in religious indoctrination should be re-allocated into literacy a.....
» 24/09/2007 11:01:24 AM At long last! A medical writer who is prepared to admit and face up to the real situation!.....
» 21/09/2007 6:10:50 PM Dear Kipp I haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about, however I have no doubt .....
» 21/09/2007 3:49:54 PM Subsidise commercial weight loss programs? Are you joking? The only ones that work are tho.....
» 17/09/2007 2:12:58 PM The problem of lifestyle contribution to personal ill health is widely spread across the i.....
» 12/09/2007 4:06:09 PM Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. This tirade of party line nonsense.....
» 10/09/2007 11:30:39 AM As someone once remarked, there are lies; damned lies; and statistics. Rape can be defined.....
» 6/09/2007 11:08:13 AM A very good article - tells it like it is. Low and middle income earners have become stead.....
» 27/08/2007 11:44:03 AM Here is an idea. Why doesn't the author of this piece of sententious, canting rubbish find.....
» 24/08/2007 12:43:25 PM At last - a 'tell it like it is' contribution from a jewish thinker. The Palestinian peopl.....
» 21/08/2007 11:20:35 AM Well said - an incisive and important article. The problem of child indoctrination is wide.....
» 8/08/2007 5:56:07 PM So Ms MacMahon is young, well heeled, a professional debater, and a member of the Liberal .....
» 4/08/2007 11:29:04 AM A most peculiar point of view which seems to be that by doing nothing to identify and curb.....
» 31/07/2007 9:23:50 PM This article, together with most of the foregoing comments, is a load of canting rubbish. .....
» 24/07/2007 10:22:29 AM I agree that god is not the problem, whatever name you may chose to assign to this mythica.....
» 20/07/2007 11:13:10 AM I have made the point elsewhere, but will make it again. There is a case to clean-up our e.....
» 18/07/2007 5:14:45 PM Thanks, Col Rouge - the last paragraph says it all. Your remarks are particularly pertinen.....
» 18/07/2007 10:57:58 AM There is no solution to the on-going miseries of the Aborigine population that does not en.....
» 13/07/2007 10:19:13 AM It seems to me that the article, and the foregoing comments, have good points to make. The.....
» 12/07/2007 1:48:34 PM Answer to keith Perhaps they were genuine, albeit hopelessly misguided, idealists. I don't.....
» 12/07/2007 11:15:03 AM Final answer to 'runner' I have long realised the futility of trying to establish rational.....
» 12/07/2007 10:48:24 AM I look forward with interest to viewing the controversial doco that (it seems) argues agai.....
» 10/07/2007 5:48:18 PM Dear runner Have you ever heard of a 'self-fulfilling prophecy'? Or perhaps you simply don.....
» 10/07/2007 3:15:32 PM Reply to 'ponder' - well put and very true!. That well known random collection of garbled .....
» 7/07/2007 11:30:18 PM A good article, by an author with the courage to put his name to a piece largely lacking p.....
» 25/06/2007 2:50:52 PM It seems to me that Professor Sullivan overlooks a significant point, which is that most w.....
» 21/06/2007 11:35:51 PM A very small storm in a very large tea-cup. Mankind's old enemies - hunger, disease, confl.....
» 19/06/2007 7:29:15 PM Runawake - good point(s)! The much vaunted employment figures is yet another abuse of stat.....
» 19/06/2007 1:08:49 PM Despite the many pontifications on the economy, environment etc the essential fact is almo.....
» 18/06/2007 3:51:35 PM Oliver I don't think we are too far apart, if at all in principle. The essential fact as I.....
» 17/06/2007 1:45:54 PM We live in a country where Cardinal Pell (and everyone else)has every right to express a v.....
» 12/06/2007 4:13:34 PM Don't worry - be happy. The american bible bashing right who (via George Bush, Tony Blair .....
» 7/06/2007 12:32:57 PM Comparisons, as someone once said, are odious - never more so than in this article. The ho.....
» 6/06/2007 1:13:31 PM Very interesting article - however I believe that in common with political scientists in g.....
» 6/06/2007 12:50:25 PM I find much to commend this article. Whilst our nest fouling activities are undoubtably ha.....
» 4/06/2007 12:58:30 PM The comments by the treasurer, Mr Costello, typify the arrogance and downright ignorance o.....
» 11/05/2007 4:05:03 PM As one who earned a living for a few years as a real estate salesman, I must say that I go.....
» 10/05/2007 12:22:13 PM The arrogance of humanity is alive and well and as misplaced as ever. The earth has been e.....
» 7/05/2007 12:52:08 PM Callie I was trying to make the point that a religious belief is categorically different f.....
» 6/05/2007 5:38:07 PM Callie The childish naivity expressed in your post is a major part of the problem. Religio.....
» 5/05/2007 7:09:50 PM Dear logic Sorry - strike 'god' and make that 'Balfour'. In either case, no one asked thos.....
» 5/05/2007 3:28:02 PM It is difficult to decide which of the three 'peoples of the book' are doing the most dama.....
» 4/05/2007 11:43:13 AM Dear miacat My first response upon reading the load of ranting rubbish submitted under you.....
» 2/05/2007 4:57:22 PM Palestinians and Jews united? What an unfunny joke. The Palestinians have lived and farmed.....
» 2/05/2007 4:18:25 PM Dear common I am glad to hear that big words don't frighten or confuse you - even so you s.....
» 2/05/2007 2:12:12 PM Ye (non existant) gods! So now the bible bashers are claiming the high moral ground by ref.....
» 2/05/2007 2:01:11 PM Whilst I personally hold no brief for the Howard government, and despite the bizarre nonse.....
» 2/05/2007 1:20:51 PM Here we go again - 'the union bosses' are back under the bed and the insults to the intell.....
» 1/05/2007 2:34:49 PM Despite presenting an accurate snapshot of modern day living as experienced by the relativ.....
» 1/05/2007 2:19:54 PM Whilst presenting a well written and, to my mind, an accurate snapshot of modern day as ex.....
» 30/04/2007 11:04:06 PM There are few circumstances that wrench my heart more than the thought of children going h.....
» 30/04/2007 10:40:28 PM Answer to arjay - they don't. It is you who is in the dark ages, and loving it.....
» 30/04/2007 12:21:36 PM Whatever 'political communication' might be, apart from yet another 'in group' waste of ti.....

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