It’s time for the regular Monday message board, where you are invited to post your thoughts on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language, please.
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"I do not know how he is a professor, but anyway he purports to be an economist" Senator Richard Alston, ex-Minister for Communications
"One of the elder statesmen of the Oz blogosphere" - Age Media Blog
"More intelligent than Britney Spears"Jason Soon
"The great neo-classical iconoclast"Ross Gittins
"A green activist with a totalitarian mindset", editorial, The Australian
"would argue under a pile of wet statistics and produces more copy than Xerox". Stephen Matchett in the Australian
"the odd Quiggan (sic) is good mental exercise; all part of life's rich tapestry et al."Peter Jonson
"Wrong", "incorrect", "off the mark again" Institute for Public Affairs, Institute for Private Enterprise, Centre for Independent Studies etc.
"Never wrong"Tim Blair
"A compassionate exponent of the dismal science" Stewart Fist
"An indispensable weblog"Bear Left
"Quiggin strikes me as the stereotype of an Australian - joyful, hearty, and not particularly aware of his own strength."SomeCallMeTim
"Krugman of the Antipodes"Christopher Joye
" ... his chief delight was drinking cups of coffee at odd hours" Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time
Here’s one for JS: ostrobogulous.
I’ve just found a quotation in wikipedia, in the article on the Krag rifle. A century ago the US marines sang a little song about the Philipino, including the lines “Underneath the starry flag/Civilize them with a Krag”.
Plus ca change (see Ken Macleod’s blog for some recent details from Fallujah). Does anyone have a full quotation for that song before I go searching?
Anybody else a little disturbed by the appointment of Janet “Skanky Ho” Albrechtsen to the board of the ABC?
David Marr but be spontaneously hurling his breakfast this morn.