A life at the end of history
Posted in Politics on 27 July 2010
Boy, was I wrong.
About Julia Gillard, that is. All these years, I thought she was a mensch, perhaps the last standing Australian politician with integrity and a backbone. But especially a politician with an all-encompassing grasp of government.
Since taking over as Prime Minister, she has shown none of these qualities. Instead she has revealed [...]
Posted in Politics on 25 June 2010
Anyone watching Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s press conference yesterday would have to admit that here is a consummate politician and genuine human being, the likes of which you rarely see in federal politics, and never at the top. The woman actually exudes integrity. Contrary to the opinions of some, she comes to her position without [...]
Posted in Politics on 18 May 2010
This isn’t ordinary oppositional politics. It’s madness, verging on treason. - Philip Adams
With the election of Barack Obama in the United States and Kevin Rudd in Australia we thought the Conservative Right Wing would crawl back under the rocks from whence they came. At least for a while. Instead they are frothing like unleashed Pit [...]
Posted in Politics on 26 June 2009
The Australian Liberal Party has rarely been a political entity worthy of respect, but The Howard Years (1996-2007) appear to have brought it into terminal disrepute. A year and a half after John Howard’s disgraceful demise, both as Prime Minister and Member for Bennelong, it is clear the legacy of Howard’s malfeasance still infects the [...]
Posted in Politics on 23 June 2009
Memorial to Neda Soltan: Angel of Freedom
The current horror in Iran between a majority of people who want to be free in a secular society and the minority of insane fundamentalists who are happy to slaughter in the name of Allah is a clear example of a species that looks to have passed its use-by [...]
Posted in Politics on 15 June 2009
A couple of Saturdays ago I drove over to the Barren Valley Shopping Centre for brekkie. There’s a cubby in the food court that serves breakfast for $7.90. It’s cheap, it’s nearby, and best of all, I don’t have to cook it.
It was too early for the weekend rush so I had a chat with [...]
Posted in Politics on 23 January 2009
Obama is “that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds [...]
Posted in Politics on 17 January 2009
Posted in Politics on 16 January 2009
War Chimp playfully chokes Magoosolini with Medal of Disgrace.
The circle jerk of war criminals didn’t stop there. In addition to Medal winners Tony Blair and Columbia’s handy Prez, Alvaro Uribe, Iraqi slaughter architects Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and their chief talkback spruiker of all things immoral and indecent, Rush Limbaugh, joined the festivities.
In his [...]
Posted in Politics on 12 January 2009
The Right Wing is the scourge of humanity.
The Pro-Israel lobby worldwide is amazingly powerful. Grown men and women in democratic parliaments are afraid to speak out at the atrocities of the current Gaza invasion. Why? Because they would be attacked relentlessly.
Any Jew who criticizes Israel’s policies regarding Palestinians is immediately labeled a self-hating Jew.
Any non-Jew [...]