Lefty E@27Bradman cesead playing FC cricket nearly a decade before I was born and nearly two decades before I was aware that cricket was relevant to the culture. Still, his stats don't recommend him as boring by the standards of cricket. His average test century was, IIRC, completed at a rate of about 75 runs per 100 deliveries, and since he managed a test century on 29 of the 80 occasions he went to bat in a test and half of those times exceeded 169 runs Perhaps Empty merely meant Rudd was a champion of boredom but liked the alliterative and cultural qualities associated with adduction of Bradman's name. He might have used Baudrillard of boredom, but most would have thought he was posing or some sort of intellectual. In Australia, at least amongst Howard's Battlers it's believed you get points for pig ignorance and scorn of learning, espoused hatred of elites etc which raises the question why Tuckey isn't running the party.I think it's amusing that in the course of one week Turnbull has paired Rudd with Stalin and Bradman. Who is next?

by Daniela 09:37:06 PM 2012.02.26