Exceedences? Surely not from Robbo.

Hang on, was Robbo affecting intelligence or just unintelligible?

Robbo’s department predicted, ahem, good air quality today because of expected rain.

Staff didn’t even have to open the freakin’ window to work out that it was a tad dusty outside. That they couldn’t see through it might have been a hint.

It was all OK in the end because, as Robbo may have said, "as soon as air quality exceedences began to be recorded at air quality monitoring stations health alerts were automatically generated."

Of course, Robbo is a mega-brain so, perhaps, dust in the reporter’s ears resulted in a misquotation. Perhaps he was adopting No. 5 of this organ’s past advice.

Litigation is unlikely. Anyone affected by dust who had relied on the NSW Department of the Environment’s website would be pinged for contributory negligence. The letters "NSW" and the name John Robertson are all the evidence required for a successful government defence.

The Critic in Chief

Tomorrow Obama will urge kids to stay in school!

On Thursday the President will remind Americans that peace is good and that fighting is bad.

Friday will be marked by Presidential confirmation of the deliciousness of apple pie, preferably still warm from the oven with a dollop of cream*.

The President also has said that The Wire is his favourite television program.

OK, some of this is made up. But the ABC has breathlessly reported that Obama will say that staying in school is good and it is advertising the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed television series, The Wire, with a Presidential endorsement.

What is he, Critic in Chief? Platitudinor in Chief?

Just as nobody should take Kevin Rudd seriously as an art critic, nobody should give a fig what Obama thinks is good television. And a motherhood statement from a President or Prime Minster doesn’t elevate it beyond the bleedin’ obvious.

Good grief.

*Not to be taken as a Presidential recommendation to eat pie, which may contain butter and traces of nuts, or cream. Butter and cream have been linked to heart disease, obesity and planetary warming.