It’s time again, once again, for the Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpit, 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
Self basting bugger of a capitalist unworthy of cannibalism Ron E? I can think of a few.
We should stop this before some of our more conservative friends become overexcited)
In your case Alan, would ‘conservative friends’ be an oxymoron.
@el gordo
No el gordo – they would be dinner.
@el gordo
Nope, although I understand that contemporary ‘conservatism’ (which is actually, as Jonathan Ralston Saul calls it, a Bolshevism of the Right) prefers the world divided absolutely into neat Manichaean categories. You embody this worldview with your willingness to engage in obvious fabrications like your love for Julia and your mysterious discovery of this blog on a piece of paper in your pocket. Presumably it was placed there by the evil Greys of Zeta Reticuli.
Had a good look at the greys in question, but didn’t recognize anyone. The scrap of paper was from my Deltoid days.
I’ve always loved Julia (from a distance) because of her casual style and political nous.