Rather than have many categories, this journal arranges entries using tags, providing an easy way to navigate around and help link relevant posts to each other. The current tag is: current affairs
Last night I had a real wake-up call. I was forcibly made aware of exactly how insidious reality TV has become. It all started, as so many things do, with Letterman. Read the rest of this entry »
Tagged: attitudes, current affairs, domestic inconveniences.Apparently Australia is suffering from a man-drought. Yes, not only is it not raining water (except, ironically, on the Sunshine Coast) it’s also not raining men. Hallelujah. Will we soon be facing man restrictions and only be able to use men on our lawns and gardens between 7pm and 7am on even-numbered days? If things don’t ease up after that, will we move on to having to use buckets to apply them and eventually have to stop altogether?
I suspect many men could learn to live with that.
Tagged: current affairs, domestic inconveniences.Well for my reading pleasure the Australian government’s drug brochure arrived in the mail yesterday. Of only, right? No, it’s a booklet on how to talk to your kids about drugs. There goes that 17 billion surplus they were so worried about. Thank God they didn’t put that into education or hospitals. It started off badly, with a “personal” letter from our beloved prime minister. “Dear fellow Australian,” full marks for the attempt to imply some sort of camaraderie. It does, however, read like you and he are the only Australians in existence. That might not have detracted too much if I was actually Australian. Read the rest of this entry »
Tagged: attitudes, current affairs.