Issue 123

I’m personally not convinced that vitamin supplements are a vital adjunct to modern living and I decided to give up taking vitamins more than twenty years ago with no noticeable ill effects – which didn’t entirely surprise me as they’d had no noticeable positive effects over the period I took them either. That’s not to…

..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…

..Centre and Right’s backbone of Australia. About two years ago as I waxed loquacious about caravan parks as one model for solving the problem of too many people occupying too much space at too greater cost. If you drive around Australia’s major cities you see good arable land being swallowed up by McMansions for workers…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..It’s bad enough having stuff thrust upon me, but when I actively seek to bring more of it into the house, I begin to wonder at my sanity. Afterall, I’ve already got a whole lot more stuff than I can handle and only a tiny house – something’s gotta go!…

…shattering when you inevitably drop it, but they’re also bad because they tend to partially obscure the camera lens when you’re taking spontaneous shots for the website. A phone pouch doesn’t keep your phone dry in a toilet bowl either, as I discovered after peeling mine off the phone. My pretty little Nokia phone/camera had…

.. traditional fasteners, but its use has spread into areas where buttons or studs do a perfectly serviceable job, and have done throughout history. Apart from anything else, I dislike the sound of velcro, and I imagine women who have hair removed from their legs and other more personal bits with wax strips like it…