Supply and Demand

AP:

Politician’s strip club scandal sobering

CANBERRA, Australia - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s new campaign against teenage binge drinking in Australia revived questions Friday about his own drunken escapade in a New York strip club.

Reports of the night he spent at “Scores” in 2003 surfaced while he campaigned ahead of the November election. The bookish and church-going Rudd apologized, and most Australians believed him when he said it was the second time in his life that he was drunk.

Still, the incident resurfaced this week when Rudd launched a $50 million campaign to combat excessive drinking among Australians teens.

It’s not hypocrisy.  It’s simply a matter of supply and demand.  He needs Australia’s teenagers not to binge drink so that there’s enough booze left for himself.  If this is habitual with him, now we know where the “Abo apology” mindset came from.

America On Trial in Melbourne

Oh, yeah, and lost in all the anti-American hoopla is that a number of Australian men with Arabic names might have been involved in terrorist conspiracies.  The defense lawyers seem to have been successful in putting ole Uncle Sam on trial.  Meaning that the new defendant also has a beard and unique headwear.

The last time something like this happened, Mark Furman was put on trial, even though he wasn’t the one in the white Bronco that the cops were chasing.