General

It's not uncommon to hear the rumour about town that the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin is a "Labor newspaper".

I would like to think that if one was to make the effort to publish such a well presented magazine, one would endeavour to ensure that articles published in it were at least spelt correctly.

The local laws on P plates have everyone in confusion. Not only are they confused about the new laws that are placed on young drivers but the logical reasoning behind these new laws are problematic.

Queensland Police today revealed concrete evidence that Nelson Mandela and current South African Predident Thabo Mbeki have joined forces in an elaborate bulk email fraud ring, that could swindle the world out of a more than a few Rand. The QPS circulated an email, foolishly signed by both Mandela and Mbeki, that asks people to provde their bank details in order to receive a lottery prize. That greed merchants Mandel and Mbeki would make such a thoughtless error and, for that matter, elect such a flaccid ruse as spam email, has renewed grave doubts about the well being of their nation.

Journalists are fools. Don't let journalists fool you. The majority of journalists I've met are in love with the term journalist. They are so eager to be a 'journalist' that they do what their boss tells them. They do whatever it takes to fulfill the criteria of what they believe makes a journalist, and as a result you get a bunch of moderately articulate drones too afraid to break ranks  to contribute anything of value. The covering of the Paris Hilton prison-probation-prison saga is the gaudy proof of this.

Advertisers take note: On this day, Saturday June 2, in the 2007th year of our Lord, the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin  apologised for something.

With recent events of sending more troops into Iraq and Australian troops in East Timor we have to truly consider what Australia’s role is in international affairs. We have to analyse what other countries think of Australia and whether or not our status in the world will target us for terrorism.

Today Livingstone Shire Council circulated a press release citing 'sea change expert' Bernard Salt's opinion that LSC should not amalgamate with Rockhampton. That might be the case, but I looked into this Mr Salt guy, and something's not right in the state of something ...

In more bad news for George Forbes - the Australian being held in Sudan after the murder of Ukrainian flight engineer Mykola Serebrenikov - Melbourne lawyer Lex Lasry, QC, is going to be handling his appeal.

Black hat, grey hat, where do you draw the line at?

Sydney's Found Agency is chanting this tune tonight, after The Australian newspaper reported that the online marketing company had been penalised by Google or manipulating the search engine giant's guidelines a little bit too skillfully.