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The reason why Melbourne is the sporting capital of Australia, and quite possibly the world, can be summed up in one simple word: economics. This one word masks a lot of complicated history and social progression. Organised sport is a very recent phenomenon. Before the industrial revolution, the vast majority of people lived in absolute …
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Brutus: Let them enter: They are the faction. O conspriracy, Sham’st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night When evils are most free? (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 1) Julius Caesar is, in my view, one of the most under rated of Shakespeare’s plays, one which I feel belongs right up there with …
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The late second temple Jewish general and historian known to us as Flavius Josephus is one of the most interesting characters of his society and time in history, not so important as Jesus or as influential as Paul, but perhaps just as fascinating in his own way. After all, his very survival of a suicide …
Continue reading “The Space Race Without Heroes – Retelling The Right Stuff”
Ok… my team got eliminated in week one of the AFL finals, but after the 2016 premiership miracle, I am not too put out. One thing that always gives most Australians something to smile about is the suffering of Collingwood supporters. As a kid in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Collingwood kept making …
A few weeks ago, my mother indicated that she wanted some cucumber seeds. So I went to the Reject Shop to buy some (as Bunnings and other hardware & gardening supply stores are all closed, the Reject Shop is the only place which seems to be both open and have vegetable seeds for sale). Sadly, …
I shaved off my isolation beard yesterday. Not because, after almost six months since I started growing it, that the state of lockdown in the Peoples Republic of Victoria has come to an end, nor because it does not fit well behind the masks which have been mandated by our technocratic Premier when we set …
About 7 months ago I planted some lavender cuttings along my front fence. Two of those survived, and today I added another two plants I bought a few days ago from the supermarket to those. This is not much, but I feel that providing more food for bees is probably important, even on a micro-scale. …
“Hell is truth seen too late” – Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan If, in some sort of twisted social contract, people were to consent to live in a technocracy with the removal of most of their rights and liberties (including much of their freedom of speech), you would expect at least that the technocrats running that system …
Continue reading “All Power, No Responsibility: A Brief Appraisal of the Failed Andrews Technocracy”
His lips move. I think the answers of our technocratic premier at the enquiry into the failures of hotel quarantine do show a lot of short comings in terms of his judgement and his veracity. Yet thanks to Fiona ‘Yar Yar Binks’ Patton, he retains emergency powers to abuse for the next six months. And …
Continue reading “How can you tell when Daniel Andrews is lying?”
You know, there is only one movie I found so bad that I weighed up the lost cost of my ticket against the lost cost of sitting there for another two hours to watch it that I actually got up and walked out. That film was Ellen Degeneres’ 1990s screen vehicle Mr Wrong, which seemed …
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