A life at the end of history
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 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 [...]