May 26, 2012

The ethics of an old man mowing

Walking home from work today I saw an old man mowing the lawn at a fundamentalist church. The grounds must be at least half an acre and he was using a small mower to cut long, wet grass. There is no way he would have got more than a third done before it was dark. [...]

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Ancient language goes modern

It’s rather ironic I learned about The Vatican’s web site from a blog named The Inquisitr I’m not surprised The Vatican has a web site; it’s just I had never thought about it before and had never visited. As The Inquisitr reveals, a Latin section was only recently added. I’ve never studied Latin and I [...]

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Phone tone rage (PTR)

A Kalgoorlie Miner columnist, Kitty Prodonovich, wrote today about “phone tone rage” (PTR). It is quite amazing how the repetitive tones from an innocent little phone can incite so much anger and frustration, but they do. And it’s not just the phone rings; you can also have different sound for message alerts and other thing. [...]

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Religion

Catholic heaven

I admit that we lost contact with organised religion after the twins were born. It required a big effort to get the family to mass and the twins were a handful. Traditional denominations in Australia have lost members partly because they haven’t been family friendly. As congregations grow older it’s hard for parents to take [...]

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Sex and the campaign

My election campaign steamed up this week, quite literally. Juliet pointed out accusingly this afternoon that my 8cm classified in the local paper appears underneath heavy bold type, which says: LIVE SEX SHOWS AND LIVE STRIP SHOWS Can anyone hazard a guess on the electoral implications of this juxtaposition? My ad is also surrounded by [...]

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