Random thoughts and observations
A mouse just got caught in a trap in our bedroom at 1.37am, but didn’t die instantly; instead clattering about on timber floorboards and woke us up. What’s the correct response? Not sure of the ethics, but in a sleep haze I wanted to impale the mouse and hang a sign around it’s neck to [...]
I mentioned yesterday there have been two larger-than-life stories in the news this week. One concerned the rugby league salary cap scandal; the other involved Western Australia’s (former) Treasurer Troy Buswell and his affair with Greens MP Adele Carles. I don’t need to comment on the Buswell affair. The facts are clear and the public [...]
Sometimes the news of the day is just so extraordinary you wonder if it isn’t fiction instead. A series of facts collide like a train wreck to produce a story that crashes through the public consciousness. Two such stories have gripped Australia in the past week. The Melbourne Storm rugby league salary cap rort is [...]
It’s hard to conceive why Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse “strenuosuly objects” to being branded a liar after being caught lying. During the quarter-time break against St Kilda on Friday night, Malthouse was captured on television appearing to speak forcefully to Saints players. Questioned after the game, Malthouse said to reporters: “I didn’t have words to [...]
I sometimes believe I have too many websites. If I aggregated all my content here it would be a much bigger site. I try to differentiate between professional posts and personal ones, political stuff and general, long articles and short, etc. Anyhow, I don’t often cross-link between them. On this occasion, I invite readers here [...]
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