Good to see Barry Cassidy trying something different on Sunday mornings ( and elsewhere ) on the ABC .Though he did a good job as mediator, his energetic panel of "now, now tut"religoius left ,defenders of the antics of bob brown helped to make the calm rationality of bolt very obvious .The same old same olds were trotted out by ageing lefties -does it take twenty years and only one dissenter of reactionary practice to show how tired ,old and irrelevant is their rhetoric and predicatable in a debate warmer than most on the ABC because bolty was there!! . . All the excuses( favourite talking point on ABC sunday last week and too often on ABC- Surely reactionaries and children worry rejection of excuses will deny them free speech ) in the world won't hold up hot air - and the excuses made for bad behavoiur by delinquents . Wake up ABC , lots of your news commentators are as predictable as old defenders of everything left of average would be at their age of pretend radicalism. We switch off to renovationing shows , SBS , books for something more interesting.