Brief newslets

• Another business union commissar has won pre-selection for a Liberal Party senate spot.

 

• The Israeli Government has denied targeting the Palestinian Prime Minister.  A headline in The Australian suggests otherwise.

 

• Bloggers in China breach their government’s Great Firewall. (And good on them, says this blog.)

 

• “You know how bad things have got when Jimmy Carter’s critique of your presidency is taken seriously.”

 

• Will George Lucas produce yet another Star Wars movie? Does anyone care? And will Roger Ebert protest against yet another retreat into fantasy? For answers to these and other trivial questions... don't look at me.