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ByMikeRudd..relations add up to it being a non-starter. The one thing that’s obvious from an Australian perspective is that the cartoon’s overtly and undeniably racist. Given that, I found it interesting that the debate in The Press is centred on whether the cartoons are actually racist or not, which shows that context is playing a…
Forward
ByMikeRudd..the diary I note down odd words and phrases that catch my attention and one of them was a comment on a popular bit of Newspeak. i.e. ‘forward’ is the new black. This touches on another gripe that probably falls into the realm of yer Grumpy Old Men, but just as the notion of progress…
Moveable Feasts
ByMikeRudd..close makes animosity almost inevitable, rather like sibling rivalry, but fortunately other religions take a more peripatetic view of the calendar and have festivals at other times. Would you have to work at all if you held every possible belief? It was a rhetorical question, so don’t put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard…
Another year..
ByMikeRudd..around in pods texting their friends and acquaintances about what a good time they were having. As they were on a floodlit hill in a gale wearing tee-shirts, shorts and fluorescent wrist bands, this seems somewhat unlikely. But the messages no doubt made their friends reply that they were having an even better time where…