Random thoughts and observations
I don’t like those addictive little news tickers they run across the screen during breakfast television. They tease and irritate. One that caught my eye this morning said: “Man allegedly arrested in Perth on terrorist charges”. The word “allegedly” here is misplaced. The man was arrested on terrorist charges, or an alleged terrorist was arrested. [...]
I’ve just read The Age online version of the story MP in drink crash shame. It’s about the Liberal Member for Silvan Province, Andrew Olexander, who crashed his car into several other vehicles on Sunday morning while driving under the influence of alcohol. The other Member for Silvan, Labor’s Carolyn Hirsh, was also charged with [...]
The Greens are Australia’s most radical political party with parliamentary representation and the only one I have absolutely no time for. It annoys me that they receive significant media coverage considering they’re a fringe group that attracts less than 10 percent of the vote. So I was disgusted tonight that two minutes of the ABC [...]
One of my morning rituals is to scan headlines of The Age online. It was a pleasant surprise today to see the new look; very clean and impressive. I don’t like the fact they’re moving towards registration of users though. It started with the rugby and AFL sections, where they only let you read one [...]
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