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..has a great chapter on anarchism and the gross social inequalities that caused it. My research was brought on by a passing reference in last month’s blogette (which you have forgotten already you ungrateful Christmas hung-over swine!) to my antipodean romantic infatuation with the Black Flag of Anarchism. The sheer panic that was engendered by…
Automation
..even a craze. Remember crazes? I was gardening in my garden that could pass for a jungle the other day and The Ballad of Davy Crockett infiltrated my brain and I started to sing the story of Davy Crockett so well known to every American and Australasian child of the era; Born on a mountain…
It must be the drugs..
Currently we have state and federal government where advertising is seen not only as the most appropriate and almost certainly the only activity to solve a problem. The billboard struck me as the equivalent of Speed Kills advertisements which are seen as a substitute for proper driver training and a way of eliminating the gross…
Issue 51
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This is not Cadel
..self-assigned speed ratings. I had put myself in the class that would be able to average between 20 and 25 kph for the distance . And so it felt like I waited 30 minutes before I cleared the start line and wobbled off along Eastern Beach. I had been inveigled into this sporting event, the…
December 2011
..election campaign characterised by profound shallowness and intellectual mediocrity by both political parties and the media, I wrote …..“Many years ago I recollect seeing in scratchy black and white an interview between Walter Cronkite and an aging Dean Acheson who had been the Secretary of State in the Truman Administration. He had played a central…