Fellow travellers, no doubt you have all heard of these rather distressing revelations about Tasmanian anti-pokies champion Andrew Wilkie during his time at Duntroon. It's reported that he made junior cadets salute the anniversary of Hitler's rise to power as part of some bizarre bastardisation ritual.

Just as Wilkie himself noted, the revelation's timing is very interesting indeed. Without a doubt the story's leaking to the media is part of a well orchestrated smear campaign run by the gambl...
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Fellow travellers, if you peruse the rancid right-wing reaches of the blogosphere as I do from time to time, then surely you will have heard about a blogger called Alene Composta. Now, there is a meme going round that she is some kind of cyber-sock puppet created by a hateful conservative with the explicit intention of shaming the ABC.

As regular readers of this blog know, similarly vile and false rumours have been spread about myself. I have even been named by an appalling AmerKKKan com...
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Well, well, well. Isn't the blogosphere interesting?

As an indirect consequence of this blog's mention in Rupert's mean little rag, rumours have started to circulate that I am a satirical construction created by the loathsome conservative blowhard Matt Hayden. Sadly, these claims have come from the left. I can't deny it, that hurts.

I am not a satire. I am as real as anyone walking the planet (and certainly more authentic than most!).

Those pushing the claim cite the inclusion of the words "come...
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