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Harry S Truman’s mother in law never quite felt that Truman was good enough for her darling daughter. I suppose she always saw him as the awkward farm boy courting her, rather than as the returned war veteran who had risen to the rank of major in command of an artillery battery who married Bess. …
Continue reading “Rule of the Mediocracy? America’s Rise Despite Itself”
At the very back of my memory is a vague collection of some sort of playground game or custom where, if you touched something icky (eg dog poo or used chewing gum), you would immediately touch someone else and call ‘Needles!’ hence passing the contamination from yourself onto them. With the way that the Delta …
Continue reading “When Fibbing Is Unforgivable – Thoughts on the Andrews Government”
I went for a walk at lunchtime through the deserted city. In the Bourke Street mall I decided to look up and appreciate what I can see above street level. In our every day lives we often keep our foot on the ground and our eyes in front. It’s sometimes good to look up and …
It irritates me greatly when the Australian news media, as has been its unpatriotic and irritating habit of the past 15 years or so, to refer to Soccer (aka Association Football) as Football. In Australia, particularly in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and the NT, Football means Australian Rules, which I consider true football. …
Continue reading “It is time for Cricket (the true World Game) to resume its place at the Olympics”
One of my late kinsmen was the village idiot of Sunshine North. He happily used to live some of the time on a vacant block there which resembled a garbage tip with abandoned cars and machinery he collected. He also would have trouble with the RSPCA from time to time as he would harbour wild …
Continue reading “Bruce Springsteen’s daughter wins silver at the Olympics”
I have long been in the habit of occasionally reading extracts from Mao’s Little Red Book for laughs. Yes, I do need to get a life. But just in the past few days, I have discovered The Global Times, the Chinese Communist Party’s answer to the BBC and Voice of America, and I must say …
Continue reading “Reading Maoist Propaganda is most interesting”
So, this is our sixth lockdown in Victoria the failed technocrat Daniel Andrews has inflicted on us since this plague reached us 16 months ago. I don’t normally bother watching the press conferences for him or any of the other technocrats currently ruling us by decree, but a group of us in the office gathered …
Continue reading “Trying to find a silver lining in the lockdown”
I have no sage like powers. In retrospect, I would have been better off to have left my money in the share market last year rather than to pull it all out in March 2020 and then trickle it back in over the intervening 16 months. But this week, I was reminded of an anecdote …
Continue reading “Shoeshine Boys and the Fall of Cryptocurrency”
Sometimes it’s good to be wrong. Just over 6 months ago in this blog when we hit 100 million Covid cases I wearily predicted that at the then current rate of infection we would double to 200 million cases by Easter. I was wrong and I’m glad. Instead, it’s taken about 27 weeks instead of …
Quite a few years ago (time does fly), there was a locally written novel in our bookstores by a Melbourne English teacher Peter Minack, titled ‘CWG (Campaigning With Grant)’. It is written from the first person perspective of Brigadier General John Aaron Rawlins, aide to Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army in the …
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