Man dies after chilli-eating contest

According to News Limited, A FORKLIFT driver who dared his friend to a chilli-eating contest died hours later.  Andrew Lee, 33, used a bag of home-grown red chillis to make the roaring-hot sauce and dared his girlfriend’s brother, Michael Chadbourne, to eat a spoonful. Mr Lee then ate a plateful, and had a heart attack [...]

Wall St vs Main St

With the overnight failure of the bailout plan in the US House of Representatives, it looks like the stock markets are going to have some major, um, challenges in the next couple of days. Although – I am critical of the plan (privatise profits, socialise loses), the failure to act will probably have vast ramifications [...]

Good Ideas and Lies

To try and get this blog going, here is our first real post. I was reading Club Troppo today, and was struck by a simple line that Nicholas Gruen found in the New York Times blog of Paul Krugman: Good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public [...]

First post

Hi everyone. This hopefully will be a bit of a place for the lost blogocracts to post and talk about the current issues. joni