I'm old enough to know that I don't have any answers, but that won't stop me talking
If you pardon the quotation from the classics, the title to this blog post comes from the Simpsons episode ‘Deep Space Homer’ from season 5 of that show. It is uttered by newsman Kent Brockman when live feed from the space shuttle shows an ant farm Homer has inadvertently broken. Kent interprets that as meaning …
Continue reading “I for one welcome our new insect overlords…”
http://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/fitzsimons-damning-two-words-for-cambage/news-story/a24db560b6909899eb7e2f1c581068c9 It only took someone as annoying as Liz Cambage to find common ground between myself and Peter Fitzsimmons.
Tempus Fugit, as Mork from Ork might say. Almost half a lifetime ago, I spent 7 months living in Canberra. Despite being bored and frozen and probably not doing my career any favours from that adventure, I do not regret it for three reasons. The first is making two close friends who are still amongst …
What the hell does ATAGI stand for anyway? I don’t mean what it is short for (Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation). I mean what it represents and what values drive the experts who sit on this body and tell our political leaders and the rest of us whether or not a vaccine should be …
Saw two kookaburras this morning on the way to the bus stop.
The vaccination rollout in Australia has appeared to me to be a debacle at all levels of government, where the technocrats ruling the states and the Commonwealth have all dropped the ball in various ways. This was brought home to me particularly this morning when I looked more closely at the letter my elderly mother …
youtube.com/watch Even Dorothy knows it… Let me put on record that I loathe Association Football (otherwise known as Soccer) and consider Australian Rules to be Real Football. Given that, I do not usually get too excited about soccer tournaments and I do get a spot of malevolent glee when the Socceroos fall flat on their …
People reading my blog are going to surmise after a while that despite my libertarian convictions, I am pretty conservative on a lot of things, if not downright reactionary. For example, as a property owner and a ratepayer, it appalls me that mere tenants are able to vote in local government elections. I consider this …
Continue reading “Why My Local Upper House MP Bernie Finn Deserves A Knighthood”
I have been reading the somewhat satirical Betoota Advocate a lot lately, which claims to be one of the oldest newspapers in Australia (it actually did not exist until its online edition was introduced a few years ago, in case you are inclined to take it seriously). Hence you might see a resemblance in the …
Last year, I wryly noted in this blog that a future former friend (whose delusional tendencies border on the certifiable) had once caused me to make a spectacularly unsuccessful speculative investment. At that time, I wrote that the director of the company at the heart of that investment had already prepared a shopping list of …
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