bring out the gimp

For the 3 millionth time I have pressed the wrong key combination and wiped out a post, in this case a very long, eloquent piece on Australian politics. Blogger you're an angel, but, FUCK. How about some JavaScript that catches your keystrokes and warns you before you go backwards and lose your brain dump?

Anyway, I'm not writing it again. I've made a rule that if something doesn't seem to want to make it to the page, let it be. In any case, others have written this particular topic up a great deal better than I.

The abbreviated version, though, is as follows:

The ALP, as we remember it, is finished and I'm starting a new party to replace it. The ALP will become New Labor, but the letterhead will read New Right. Their first, magnificent achievement will be to set up a coast guard to deal with the awfully scary boat people/terrorists. The Coalition will herein go from strength to strength because they have harnessed the new world's greed and self-interest and know it better than anyone. They will be out for a term in this decade, but they will strengthen in opposition and be back, again and again.

I love you Australia, but the passion is starting to fade.