A life at the end of history
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 16 October 2008
Well, folks, October 29 is the 79th anniversary of the crash of ‘29. Today there are similarities galore, with the months-long roller coaster ups and downs of greed followed by fear preceding the deadly date.
Surely, it can’t happen again?
Then, it took a Democrat to get the country out of the financial profligacy of previous Repuglycan [...]
Posted in Politics on 13 September 2008
All things of value are defenceless. — Thomas Pynchon
Did someone say America is a warrior nation? Surely they meant war-mongering nation. The last American warrior was probably crept up on and shot to death by a righteous born-yesterday Christian. The soldiers going to Iraq, Afghanistan and, if Bush and Palin have their way, Russia and [...]