Here's yet another example of just how disoriented the coalition of the disgruntled are these days.

Reading through Gerard Henderson's column this morning, I have to admit to not understanding the purpose or intent of same.

Is Henderson attempting to critique Obama and his landmark speech to the Muslim world last week, or is he attempting to claim that while Obama may be speaking the truth, he's not speaking the whole truth, so help whatever God he chooses to worship. Henderson makes note of Obama's Islamic name, of which hoardes of the 'usual suspects' have made a great deal. Baselessly, but a great deal none the less. Why does Henderson allude to the obvious, if not to critique? Is he attempting to claim that because Obama's father was a Muslim, that Obama is perfectly poised and equipped to address the global Muslim cohort as no other POTUS before him has been?

I'm bemused. I dare say Gerard is as well. It's not one of his most cogent columns.

Well, that's that for another little while.

It's a great flick if you're into war-spy thriller stories. A true story, just as Peter Costello's story is a true story. Certainly not the partisan fairy tale spun by George Brandis.

I'm left wondering of late, what the attraction is that I have with online discussion groups, forums and the like.

Is the impending creation of a rebel championship in F1 ranks the end of Formula One motorsport as we know it?

Sitting here at work watching the proceedings of Senate Standing Committee Inquiry(R4100 Car Dealership Financing Guarantee Appropriation Bill 2009), which is by definition looking into the so-called misleading of Parliament by the Prime Minister in relation to lobbying on behalf of John Grant Motors.

Listening to the debate started off at midday by Malcolm Turnbull on 'UteGate', I am now utterly and completely convinced that Malcolm Turnbull is a dead_in_the_water leader. Relevant reports have issued throughout the day on ThePunch site, with continual updates as events unfolded outside the House. AFP raiding Godwin Grech's residence, then button-holing a former Costello/former Turnbull/former Treasury employee. The email has been proven by the AFP to be a fraud, or at least, "created by a person or persons other than the purported author of the email." Just who the real author is, we'll discover in time, but I have to say that this debacle, which is the most positive description I can provide after listening all day, has surely set back the chances of the coalition of making any headway out of the political wilderness. Even Joe Hockey didn't sound at all as if he believed what he was saying, whilst allowing his voice to become shrill. Tony Abbott wasn't at all convincing with his lame points of order. The whole day has been a perverse display of self-harm by the conservatives. How Turnbull will survive this disgrace simply escapes me.

'Poor Godwin Grech', the sentiments expressed by Trevor Cook of Corporate Engagement and Crikey, and myself to a lesser degree last Friday.

Deaths in the media this morning. Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and an un-named truck driver simply doing his job late at night. Jackson and Fawcett take masthead space across the major dailies. Tributes flow, the usual eulogies extolling virtues and ignoring flaws are available for all to read. What of the un-named TNT driver? Plugged by a stray bullet from what is assumed to have been a confrontation between criminal elements in a KFC carpark adjacent to the road upon which the B-Double truck was passing. Apparently death was instant, the truck simply stopped, which is in itself remarkable, but does the man's passing rate at all?

Who was he? Does anyone care? What were his contributions to the world at large? Meanwhile the world mourns the passing of a paranoid, perverted pop-star and a small town Hollywood wanna-be. We're a sorry society when all's said and done.

There are rumblings in my favourite sport about the next generation of V8 Supercar.