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“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 …
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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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On the day after the 2016 Grand Final miracle, after leaving the celebration at the Whitten Oval I had a few drinks (very limited choice as the pub had almost entirely run out) at the Victoria Hotel in Footscray with a friend who had crossed the Nullabor to see the game. He had spoken to …
Continue reading “The Optimism of the Lifelong Bulldogs Supporter”
As I have indicated in my blog on various occasions, whilst I am far too conservative to participate in demonstrations, I do very strongly believe in the right to protest as part of what makes for a healthy democracy. That people (bogans are people too) have been arrested in their own homes for simply advocating …
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About 15 years ago, an acquaintance of a friend ran for the Maribyrnong Council on a mostly sensible platform around cutting waste and rate payments. I say mostly, because he had a fixation about permanently reopening the public toilet on what was then platform 4 of Footscray Station. The one time I met this prospective …
Let me start by saying that despite self-identifying as a Catholic every 5 years on the census, I am not a superstitious person. However, since Sunday morning, something strange has happened five times in my home. My shaving handle (Gillette Fusion Power) is battery operated, and it has somehow turned itself on five times in …
I, Robot is the sort of movie you watch once in the cinemas and then mostly forget about. I cannot remember too much about it except it had Will Smith in it and that actress who was one of the barmaids in Coyote Ugly (yes, I have high brow taste in film). With the restrictions …
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I must admit that I was looking forward to seeing the live action remake of Mulan in the cinemas earlier this year, until the pandemic resulted in the closure of cinemas. Mulan, the latest Bond film, Black Widow, and Bill & Ted 3 are all films I have been keenly awaiting. Mulan has a great …
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