another derby win

ahhh... i knew the day would come when we would be dominant over the weagles. we've not lost to the wet toast since mid 2005 and i've gotta say that it's very enjoyable. still, keeping things in perspective, it's only the pre-season comp so all i can say is.. bring on the real games!!

here's humphrey

great news from channel 9 that they're gonna start filming new episodes of humphrey. i think i must be psychic as i've been walking around for the past two days singing to myself about what a funny old fellow humphrey is and how he leads a very exciting life and now i find he's about to make a comeback.

i'm hoping that the theme tune from battle of the planets starts popping in my head soon cos some new episodes of that wouldn't go astray.

it's about time

so the usa have finally decided to bring charges against david hicks. that he has been held in custody for five years before being charged is unforgivable and the embodiment of the hypocrisy of the bush administration. how do they expect to impose their version of democracy on the world when they so overtly corrupt the very principles on which they claim to stand? even the charges brought against him are for actions that weren't a crime when he committed them, and committed in a nation that wasn't the usa. if he'd broken an american law in america i'd have no problem with him being tried and sentenced in the usa, but the fact that he was captured in afghanistan tells me that he should either be tried there under their law or brought back to australia and tried under ours... and only under laws that were in existence at the time of his arrest.

obviously i have no love for terrorists but i'm yet to hear any evidence that david hicks is one. furthermore, when we start making up laws and charging people with breaking them retrospectively then we're heading down a very dangerous path. this is the sort of unfair action that a free, democratic nation should fully oppose.