What could possibly be the difference of sitting in a place for eight hours while the sun is out and shining, and sitting in that same place when the sun has done its day? What could happen in the darkness that could not happen in the light? “Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it.” – Andre Gide. Give a kid a uniform, and a badge, and their knowledge soars – their knowledge of fear and of…
“He would like to come & argue it out. Fuck that! I’m a monomaniac. Me no argue.” – Henry Miller. Here we go again. These men our king’s about to parade around in condemnation were sent there by the King to do a job. The job being to kill other men. The fact that we should never have had anything to do with policing in a far off land, I s’pose, will somehow slide but that’s the criminal act. We…
“Well,” he said, “its good for all of us. The King’s mob are gonna keep givin’ us lots of free money … ” He’s a toothless old Queenslander rattling around on the margins of existence, ablaze in a marooooons jumper and today he’s all up in arms about Princess Popular’s corruptions and the great benefit the King’s been to old fashioned Aussie ideals. One more reason that us over 55s shouldn’t be able to vote on the plans for the…
I hear its a growth industry now, the neoliberal ideal … One may pay for compassion. Hugs. Its the new take on what one may deserve. Those that can afford it can get much. Friendships, respect, love, all doled out to those depending on what they can pay. Sympathy, that’s for the devil – thank God. Imagine, sitting across a government desk while its discussed just how much respect and compassion one is due at any present time … ‘Well,…
“She tore their boats to splinters, but she gave them dreams to dream.” GetUp Team Democracy … Seriously. Well, we’ve talked before regarding democratic process, but, all this work, and the money that GetUp spends on advocacy, is wasted – just thrown away. I sign all the petitions and bombard all my friends and family with the campaign materiel – true, I’ve only donated once, an unfortunate factor of being a Newstarter (call it what you will) and this government’s…
“Preceptors of the nation. Do you really think you are fulfilling an educational task if you command history to stop in its course and return to its old condition.” – Walter Goetz, 1924. Of course, most of you couldn’t give a shit – except perhaps when you’re out at the school bbq or when you’re chucking a dinner party for enlightened souls, but, us out here in the margins care an awful lot. I hear that the Left has been…
“Tyranny usurps the place of equality, which is the soul of liberty, and destroys the public courage.” – Thomas Gordon. How is it that we’ve permitted such claptrap as this apparent ‘right not to be offended’ to become a virtue in our lucky country? Don’t tell me that this is one of the progressive ideas that make our country so lucky? Surely not. The right not to be offended by what, honesty, sincerity, truth? How is it that such a…
He talks about freedoms but not rights and he says that we deserve an early mark (which of course is his to give) … Though, we don’t actually get the early mark we deserve unless, unless we download his tracking app! His National Board says we must do this. His National Board, my lord. Have we corporatized our demockracy already? And, he talks of a magical thing called a commonwealth which it is unlikely that a man such as our…
“Public opinion can never exist as a power in the state, unless there exist also persons who expose to hatred and contempt those ministers and those laws which they conceive to be detrimental to the interests of the community.” – ‘Yellow Dwarf, 1818.’ Not so easy in the Lucky Country at present is it? Everyone locked down debating the merits of fascism (or as the King prefers, demockracy), afraid to go out to see their friends, their cohorts. Your ABC…
Well here we are. All the good souls, us beautiful people, awaking on another sunny day on the east coast of the land of Nod. The news today – so my wet dog says – is, Special powers. Ha! Special powers from whom? Where? We have a suspended parliament where do ‘special powers’ come from? Show us the docs, the minutes .. who ran this through who? Was there any dissent? By whom? Was it allowed? I don’t believe it…