Nicely alliterative headline, but news from La Belle France is disturbing. French Mayors with local beaches have decided to ban…
God is Poor Exemplar
Fellow pundit Mungo McCallum, the oracle from Billinudgel, has clearly debunked the Australian Christian Lobby’s use of God’s fine words…
Not Jobson Grothe
During this interminable Australian Federal election campaign the Coalition has shortened their notorious three-word slogan format previously practised by erstwhile…
Renewable States of Australia
The ostrich or emu-like resistance to renewable energy in Godzone is displayed by the contribution of renewables to each state’s…
Revenant
(French, present participle of revenir, to return – when used in English curiously it is more dramatic, from the dead, like the…
The Smell of Pell
We all have visceral instincts and without literally smelling him, my senses signal that Cardinal George Pell, that erstwhile defender…
‘The Laughter of Triumph’
As governments gather metadata on our internet communications and try to force journalists to divulge their sources, in the name…
Anzac Fatigue & Iraq Redux
It’s meant to describe a feeling of consumer overload of Anzac themed TV offerings crashing in the ratings. Commercialisation is…
School of Hard Knox
Oh dear, the motto of Knox Grammar School is ‘Virgile Agitur’, which translates as ‘Doing the Manly Thing’. As the…
Dark Side of Aussie Sport #1
An Australian batsman is struck by a ball at the base of the skull and dies after a cricket test…
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