When walking to the bus stop this morning, I saw the front page of the Herald Sun – a shrink wrapped copy lying on the driveway of a house somewhere around the corner. ‘Bring Him Back!’ was the headline. Having grown up reading The Sun News Pictorial in the morning and The Herald in the …
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The Upcoming War On Home Owners – How Victoria’s Debt Can Be Repaid
When I was much, much, much younger than I am now, and actively used to read books on Libertarianism and the like, I remember one libertarian writer observing that if everyone lived in mobile homes and could move wherever and whenever they liked, they could hold governments accountable simply by voting with their feet (or …
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Why It Is Unwise To Try Persecuting Comedians
I’m expecting some friends over tonight for a few pre-Christmas drinks. Whilst idling around my lounge room with my iPad in the meantime, I was distracted from my original plan to either watch something on Netflix or read something of dubious literary merit on the kindle app by a push notice on You Tube. It …
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The Father Christmas Letters
I suppose a few of my primary school teachers were potentially great, but flawed. My grade five teacher (let’s call her Miss T) was a quite accomplished, well read, and well travelled woman who taught us how to knit, to play a bit of piano, and lots on nutrition. Unfortunately, she was not very good …
The Liberals’ Moira Problem Explodes
Back in March last year, I wrote a post on the Liberal Party’s Moira Problem, ie the problem that the Liberal Party had in dealing with the newly elected The Honourable Moira Deeming MLC after her participation in a rather chaotic gender identity rally which was gate crashed by neo-Nazi morons. I mostly restricted my …
Apocalocyntosis
The Ancient Roman philosopher Seneca was not quite as stoic as reputation made him out to be. He could not help but feel a degree of spite and vengefulness, as evidenced when he celebrated the death of his enemy, the Emperor Cladius, which he welcomed with spiteful glee. The evidence of this is the short …
The Impermanence of a Stock Exchange Listing
Years ago when I first started learning about investing in the share market, I remember reading, in one or other of the various books I had bought to teach myself about share investing, that the author observed that many large companies did not remain listed on the stock exchange. He mentioned various big name companies …
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My White Elephant Solar Panels
This morning, I feel like Peter Dutton is really onto something with his suggestion for rolling out nuclear power. After all, nuclear power is safe and clean as a source of electricity right across Western Europe, where people enjoy the sort of sophisticated technology which the First World creates. Even that annoying Greta Thornburg is …
The Imminent Demise Of Lambrusco?
Being Australian means that my default red wine is Shiraz. My preference is for the big, sugary, high in alcohol version of Shiraz that you usually find in North Eastern Victoria, particularly around Rutherglen. I am not too finicky though, and I am fine with most dry reds – for instance, my best friend and …
Should I Adopt A New Investment Strategy?
Telstra shares hit an all time high of $9.20 in February 1999. I know this for certain because at the time I had 600 shares in the company from the original T1 float, and had temporarily moved to Canberra for a few months in late January 1999 – it was a moment I could well …
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Lost For Words! 