Random thoughts and observations
There are two amazing stories coming out of Britain at the moment. The affair between the First Minister of Northern Ireland’s wife, Iris Robinson, and Kirk McCambley is extraordinary. She was 59 and he was 19. According to The Guardian: “Mrs Robinson’s transgression was the more astonishing given the controversy generated last year when she [...]
Australian newspapers today carried reports of the American journalist Doug Brown and his wife Annie (pictured) who had sex for 101 consecutive days. Here is a link to an American newspaper report. Interesting story. The couple are the same age as my wife and I. I’m not sure about writing a book on the subject [...]
I started in journalism 21 years ago but never had a sex romp until Friday. The front page of the Kalgoorlie Miner read: “A Kalgoorlie man who assaulted his girlfriend with a sex toy during a sex romp foursome was fined $1000 in Kalgoorlie Magistrate’s Court and urged to seek counselling.” The bloke whacked his [...]
I don’t know what prompted me to think of this subject today. Probably it was a repressed memory which must have been triggered by something. Certainly it was a memory I had banished from my conscious mind. After Michael was born in 1996 Juliet decided to have no more children. It wasn’t something I agreed [...]
Some people seem to think that newspapers delight in publishing bad news. As an editor I admit that bad news, tragedy and conflict often help to sell papers. That says something about human beings, I think, rather than newspapers. From a personal perspective I prefer to focus on the positive but unless you're colorblind or [...]
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