Current Events
I’m regularly disillusioned about things on a Tuesday morning. I blame ABC’s Four Corners on Monday nights. This week the disillusionment has leached into Wednesday. Last week it was the terrible reality that there is a rogue black market for the dumping of shitloads of rubbish in the Hawskbury region of NSW. Also that it’s far cheaper to buy new glass products than to recycle glass, and that there are […]
And for my final installment (because this is all the bad news I can take for one week)… GAZA GOES BIRKO How did it all start? Well the simmering Israel/Palestine conflict over Gaza has been on the boil for an incredibly long time and has its roots in ancient history (get your full background here). This deeply entrenched animosity is partly why a solution is so very hard to find. Very basically: […]
From Jihad terror to a deadly virus. Of course, no bad news week can be without one… EBOLA STRIKES… This is war of another kind – against a virus, which is extra scary because while we think it’s impossible to rationalise with a Jihadist, try convincing an almost invisible molecule not to kill and maim people. What is a virus? A virus is “an ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of […]
Here’s me with day 2 of Head out of Sand. I’m very tempted to pop it back in with this lot I tell you… THE ISLAMIC STATE GETS HIGH, MIGHTY AND VERY BLOODY SCARY This is the stuff of my nightmares – religion of the the extreme and brain washy kind leading people to think atrocities are warranted and that it’s them against the world. I don’t understand religion. I respect the beliefs […]
In the last few months the news has got so nasty and my sensitivities so raw that just a glance at the news headlines made my eyes smart. I’ve had to switch to waterproof mascara and in lieu of the foetal position take time out in book shops, which sends me briefly to other nicer worlds. I bought two really good escapy books* and read them instead of the newspapers. Newspapers just had […]
“BY ALLAH, I WILL SELL THEM IN THE MARKET”, says Abubakar Shekau (leader of Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram) of hundreds of abducted Nigerian schoolgirls. “Allah has instructed me to sell them. They are his property and I will follow his instructions.” What the bejesus is going awry with Nigeria that leads to this kind of despicable, fuckwit behaviour? A bit about Nigeria Here is it – in West Africa. With around 174 […]
I know I’ve been a bit quiet (lazy) on the brain progress front lately but I have been very busy exercising my painting muscles and perfecting the art of undercoating weatherboards. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking (crikey speaking of thinking, wrap your brain around that double negative). House painting lends itself to thinking. This week, I am thinking about Rwanda. It is 20 years this week since […]
So a big jet plane carrying 239 vanishes without a trace. 12 days later, nothing but vague reports, rumour and speculation. Just now I hear that satellites have spotted what may be related debris in the Southern Indian Ocean. Of course people are going to speculate and theorise. Of course the media are going to grab every little lead and run with it for the sake of their front page […]
Ok, no nonsense, all the kids are at school getting brainier by the day and I supposedly have more time on my hands so it’s time to get serious about brain progress. No holiday nonsense, no excuses, no more gossip magazine style intercourse (OMG look at Jennifer Hawkin’s face and what the bejesus is Sam Worthington thinking etc), no silly segues (segue is a funny word). Just on with the […]
With all this Gonski backflip talk you could be forgiven for thinking the Russian gymnastics team were touring Australia. I know it’s about Education funding and Abbott and his Education minister Christopher Pyne dishonouring school resource promises then honouring them again after public back lashery smarted more than they anticipated, but that’s about it. I should know more. I have 2 school age children and one nearly – I should […]
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