Street Shadows

Time to join the Uniting Church

I'm a Methodist, apparently ...

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(via Chris)

No offence?

Dan quotes Dorothy Sayers:

I believe it to be a great mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense in it…. We cannot blink at the fact that gentle Jesus meek and mild was so stiff in his opinions and so inflammatory in his language that he was thrown out of church, stoned, hunted from place to place, and finally gibbeted as a firebrand and a public danger. Whatever his peace was, it was not the peace of an amiable indifference.

Everybody's talking 'bout Pope Music

The ABC's Rhythm Divine dug up a muscial recording made by the late pope. (listen in RealPlayer, link valid for another three weeks or so.) It's interesting to listen to just once, but I won't be looking on Amazon for the CD.

Anyway, a few minutes into the track, I asked ten-year old Mitchell who it was he thought was singing. He answered, "Kermit the Frog?"

Star Wars Episode III: Supression of the Yawns

Just saw the new trailer for Episode III. Looks like more of the drek that Lucas served up for Episodes I and II. Yawn.

Sadly, I'll be going to the cinema to see it, anyway, of course.

Turnbull on Habib

Crikey's Noel Turnbull on the bile directed at Mamdouh Habib:

Now [Habib] is suffering character assassination through leaks and attacks under parliamentary privilege. The most poignant, in the light of the 100,000 plus dead in Iraq, is the accusation that he mixed with people who “killed innocent civilians.” That’s a charge which might be embarrassing for quite a few others as well as Mr Habib.

Another disaffected mental case?

So Rod Barton, Australian Intelligence Officer, formerly seconded to UNSCOM to verify Iraq's compliance with UN WMD resolutions, has turned whistle-blower. On 15 February's Four Corners he spoke of the advice that he gave the Australian government in the lead up to the recent war:

ROD BARTON: My belief was that they had a few weapons retained from 1991, which will be ageing weapons of limited use. Were they a threat? Well, they may have been of minor threat to their neighbours, because don't forget they didn't really have the delivery systems then, they didn't have an air force. They may have been a minor threat to their neighbours, but a threat to the United States or the UK or Australia? No.

There is a history of labelling people like Rod Barton as, "disaffected" or "unstable" and I'm betting Mr Barton will get both labels. It will also be revealed that he is under investigation for inappropriate behaviour after an office computer he once used was - possibly - the origin of non-departmental-business-related email.