Antipodes

Not the same kind of human as his predecessor

Click here to see Barack Obama talking to America's greatest pile of elephant shit. Click here to listen to Michelle Obama t...

It's nice of Barack Obama to tell his fellow-citizens that their nation has no intention of preying upon their private lives. It...

In my Antipodes blog, I've often expressed my consternation concerning Australia's failure to protect her citizen Julian Assange . ...

The Mormon dimwit Mitt Romney invited Clint Eastwood to ramble on incoherently at the Republic convention. The actor decided to speak to a...

Between Barack Obama and François Hollande , an introductory exchange of a few words on the theme of US cheeseburgers and French fries migh...

We've all heard that black is beautiful. It's time now, for the Anglo-Saxon world, to learn that socialism is not a dirty word. Here...

These days, people who hear of the Sarkozy couple would have normally imagined this duo: There's an offspring. The extreme right-wing p...

The website where I found this hilarious clip said: " Obama's armored vehicle can protect him from everything except ridicule. ...

This little American girl, Ann Dunham [1942-1995], had an ancestor named Mary Kearney . Meanwhile, this little Aussie girl, Kathleen Walker...

The title of the major work of Grenoble's great novelist Stendhal [1783-1842] was Le Rouge et le noir [ Red and Black ]. We saw today ...

Nicolas Sarkozy has made it perfectly clear that, if the outcome of London's G20 summit is not acceptable, he will simply get up and le...

It appears that ceramic garden gnomes were invented in Germany in the middle of the 19th century. But it was in my native land, Australia, t...

It's amusing that Barack Obama decided to proclaim his oath of allegiance a second time, after the judge screwed it up the first time. ...

My autumn dog Sophia and I are delighted to learn that one of the major issues facing the Obama family is the choice of an animal for Malia...

In the wake of Barack Obama 's precisely-planned trip to Europe and his speech to a vast crowd on Kennedy territory in Berlin, were John...

In the following video clip, we see a funky guy introducing, in boxing-match style, a white pastor named Michael Pfleger who then made fun ...

I don't mind admitting that, once upon a time, when Bill Clinton looked us directly in the eyes and swore that he had never had any kin...

I love this deliberately-distorted image (by Jason Reed) of the Democratic candidate Barack Obama campaigning at Exeter High School in New ...