Word of the week

"cark it"

To die, as in don't tell the kids the budgie carked it. The origin is uncertain. Perhaps it is a play on the standard English word croak 'to die', or it may be a shortening of carcass. Cark it also means 'to fail or break down completely': my blender's carked it."(from ANU)

RIPs, Resting Pieces, People what carked this week

Joan Rivers

Kerrie Biddell

• Is That Jazz?
• Oh Me, Oh My
• The Theme Music from Sons and Daughters
• Sing a Simple Song

Hamid Kehazaei

Kira Zvorykina, 94, Soviet-born Belarusian chess player, triple national champion (1960, 1973, 1975)

Ron Mulock, 84, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of New South Wales (1984-1988)

Harry Evans. The former Senate Clerk of the Australian Senate.

• http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/09/1055010921399.html
• http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/24/harry-evans-my-40-years-of-canberra-joy/
• http://australianpolitics.com/2002/04/24/harry-evans-parliamentary-reform-speech.html
• http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/04/1067708208926.html

Ken Simpson

F.U.

First crash investigation report on MH17 out today.

The Game and Coal

Jamie Packer. Say no more.

ICAC.

Federal ICAC.

Mining tax and Norway

Bananaland

This is what 50 tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate looks like when it explodes. Big badda boom!

The Feds

Pyne, Abbott, Ashby, Slipper, Brough

• https://twitter.com/margokingston1/status/508872316948717569/photo/1
• http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/08/james-ashby-v-peter-slipper-the-shameless-game-was-always-about-politics?view=desktop

@JulianBurnside: "Morrison rejects asylum seeker negligence claim http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-05/scott-morrison-reject-negligence--hamid-kehazaei-manus-island/5721848 We lock them up, they die, but "it's not our fault". Seriously?"

Senator Sue Lines was happy to comment, though. Almost alone among her Labor colleagues she had the courage to call Abbott's pompous bluster for what it is, a desperate diversion. She didn't excuse or minimise the atrocities of IS. She didn't even argue against a military response. She merely pointed to the way the increasingly unpopular PM was using the prospects of military action as a shield against domestic criticism. She was, of course, traduced and belittled for it, by friend and foe alike. But she was right, and she was right to speak up. What she did took more courage than anything Abbott has yet done. She is the sort of politician who really protects her country. The Age 2014.09.05

Submarines

World

China is turning reefs into islands. The Philippines says they are taking over the South China Sea through unilateral action.

Scottish referendum

India and uranium

General Interest

Oxycontin

Dabigatran

Orwell Quote for the Week:

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." - George Orwell

McCool didn't know about Godwins Law. Point and laugh at him.

Chase Executives Fondly Recall Financial Company's Hip-Hop Roots

SPORT

Football

AFL

Rugby

Asian Games

F1

NFL

• The Woman in the Elevator

• Guardian on Ray Rice

Cricket

Baseball, 100 years ago today.

Tennis

BOWLS!

(it's all mixed up, uh huh huh)