I suppose there is some sort of election type business afoot.

I don't recall ever having been so disinterested in the outcome of a federal election.



This is odd. Three years ago I desperately wanted Labor to win. That was with that lard arsed loose cannon at the helm. Rudd is better than Latham. Howard has been in for another three years and done even worse things than I had expected. My first preference should be irretrievably drawn to Kevin '07, but it isn't for some reason.



I do not like John Howard. I think he's a mean spirited cunt and I don't trust him. John Howard's response to every moral challenge that has landed at his door in the last eleven years has been to make hollow promises about interest rates and to bask in the success of Paul Keating's economic reforms.



His contribution to the war on terror has been to remove troops from Afghanistan (where terrorists were) and put them in Iraq (where there were no terrorists until we invited them).



It is nothing but luck that he was sitting on an ore mine when China decided to get out of bed, take a slash and go shopping.



Kevin Rudd has different problems. I like him, but I think his front bench is weak and incompetent. It is in the back of my mind that despite their good intentions, they will end up hurting more people by accident than the Coalition hurt on purpose.



A Rudd government would have its arse handed to it in question time by the likes of Tony Abbott and Peter Costello.

I will put Labor ahead of Liberal, but I was hoping to put them both so far down that it doesn't matter.

That plan has been thwarted, as the arse end of my ballot paper is reserved for the Democrats, Family First and the Socialist Alliance respectively.

I suppose I will vote for the Greens and give Labor my second preference.
I'm now watching something on Mythbusters about yawning. How appropriate.