“Wiley” Gaddafi

I almost spat out my coffee this morning listening online to The World Today on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National with Eleanor Hall. Talking with Hall, Robert Baer a former CIA analyst suggested it was difficult to know if rumours of Gaddafi seeking an exit strategy to leave Libya were true  because he is a “Wiley Bedouin.” Whatever else this conjures up for me the first image was the hapless Wile E. Coyote of Warner Bros animation fame. Some of the impact of that cartoon was viewers’ desire to see the coyote catch and devour the roadrunner. Associating Gaddafi with the coyote just does not work. But maybe I am in a minority hearing the phrase in that fashion. Nonetheless Baer was certainly painting a picture with broad strokes with the phrase “Wiley Bedouin.”

Australian “Free” TV

I blogged about Australian television over at Antenna. Take a look: Australian “Free” TV

Vale Margaret Sabine

Yet another remarkable woman who I had the good fortune to work with at Women’s College has died. Associate Professor Margaret Sabine according to the obit in the Sydney Morning Herald was the cat virus kingpin. Mostly though I remember her as dispensing sage advice on the Principal’s balcony at Friday drinks. If this sounds all very pucker and upper class twit like, well yes there certainly was the opportunity to engage in that sort of thing, but Margaret was not that sort of person. If she thought an action foolish, or a person a fool, she kept it to herself. Nonetheless if you asked an opinion or for guidance she gave you wise counsel. It is sad to dust off this blog to farewell Margaret.