I see that Pistol Pete’s retreating into what he calls Zen Meditation in an effort to clear his conscience and relax after all the heavy hitting he’s compelled to do to keep the rest of us safe and free. I’m not sure that he’s either in need of a clear conscience, or that this meditation will help clear it for him … What I’d suggest is 10 days in the Vipassana Retreat up at old Mt Boyce. The girls there…
You know, I’m a book addict. Since I was very little books have been all around me. I grew up in a land without TV with parents who read. My Dad read technical books and books on sailing .. and that’s really all I remember about his books .. my Mum, I think she read everything; at least she read everything to me and my little sister. Bedtime stories, Hobbits, Boland light railways under the table in storms. Little golden…
I want to tell you a story about an old fella I know. I know him quite well. He’s a beaten up old sod .. looks like death warmed up … And only just warmed up at that. There was a time when he was a valued member of society – well, thats probably not true. Knowing him as I do, I’d say that at no time would he have been valued by Society, but valued by his community he…
Time, she said, but you have so much more time than we do … Time … I think we all have the same amount of time – I think what you’re trying to say is, that I have so much more Time to spend on worthless things than you do. Yes, we’re all so busy these days … Mm hmm, we were so lazy, so wasteful of time once, weren’t we? What I have had, say I, is more Time…
Australia is being compelled to take people of ‘bad character’, so the Mimp for State Security and Deprivation of Conscience is raving to his clique again. Of course, the thing he’s attempting to muddle is medical treatment for our refugees .. remember them, those fellow humans we’ve imprisoned out there on an island that time, we are told, should forget. Now this bad character that ‘His Disgrace’ bandies about is a notion of criminality. What does he fear so much…
Me, I’m a Most Profligate Sinner … And so damned proud of it! “Ah”, I hear you say, “Pride is another sin”. Yes it is, but its a noble sin and its open to everyone … Ole Suicide again, Cherish Life – what a load of crap – another righteous organisation bounded in sin. The sin they call the ‘Right to Life’; except all rights have been removed from it. They say, how would you feel if you were told…
A funny thing happened on the way to my church yesterday. Im an evening church attender .. the darkness that surrounds me matches the message better. Also, of course, there’s not much point going to the Palace of Kings until you’re well and truly in the mood. And 8 hours of Rugby League Advertising sure does put you there. So listening still to Old Suicide .. this young lady came on the air to talk about respect. She had an…
When I was in my mid-teens a group of my friends decided that we wanted to have our own Lunar Club. A friend Mark A. and I had both read Ben Franklins Autobiography and we liked the idea of getting together around a table and discussing weird and wonderful ideas. It was much easier then .. there was no Internet, so when you learnt things you actually had to trawl through information instead of just getting any old answer that…
Ever spent 61/2 hours sitting on a wooden bench waiting for a question to be answered, staring at glossy posters telling you about Respect, Duty of Care, Bullying and having Courageous Conversations? Well not really waiting for an answer, no fool would do that. No, waiting for a letter to be copied. I’d received my answer .. No! But, someone was apparently ‘seeing what they could do’. Of course someone would have actually needed to take the letter and copy…
Imagine. Bang bang bang … G’day, Joe Brown’s budgie’s given us permission to rifle through your underpants. Ha ha, ha you say, that’ll be over my dead body. No no, he says, its true its Joe Browns budgie .. Well, you’d better get that budgie down here then and well make it over its dead body too. Settle down, tiger .. its JOE BROWN’S BUDGIE. Buddy, I dont care if its my ex-girlfriend’s axalotel that’s given you permission, if you…