Rupert’s media have infected much of Scotty’s thinking, but KC hit the mark with our recent Zero Emissions Net and … More
Category: Society
Naked Truth Bis*
Many thanks to The Oatmeal for their kind permission to use the cartoon (and to Jack for spotting it). * … More
Naked Truth
Social norms regarding nudity in this country have strangely regressed in recent years. For definitional purposes, let’s just use naked … More
The Secret Life of Toasters
Most people take their household appliances for granted, but in the bush, with not much company around, we treat ours … More
‘A Moveable Feast’
Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of living with his first wife Hadley in Paris in 1921-26, as a young struggling writer, is … More
Jumbo Jets Out
On 22 July the last Qantas Boeing 747-400 departed Sydney Airport on its final flight to retirement in the Mojave … More
Mask Matters
Inspirational Elizabeth Farrelly explains eloquently (SMH Aug 8-9) in this pandemic-protection era, the meaning and transformative qualities of masks, the … More
Facts & Science
The U.S. Buffoon-in-Chief said last Friday: “The facts are going to determine what I do”. Such gross irony was apparently … More
Pop-Up Socialism
Well, who would’ve thought that a Federal government of neo-liberal ‘dries’ would come up with $190 billion of spending to … More
Republican Party Mea Culpa
Stuart Stevens is a Republican ‘consultant’, whose book about the Republican Party, It Was All a Lie, will be published … More