NO MAN IS AN ISLAND: Without harping on the bushfires at the start of the year, 2020 definitely needs someone to pull its plug, wait ten seconds then plug it back in, as a person on Twitter said recently. After our place burned to the ground on NYE, I went back to work and that […]
Category: Politics
Recently I’ve been busy but down in the dumps thanks mainly to the bushfires, so in today’s post I’m focusing on the hopeful signs around us at this end of 2020 (and yeah I know, it’s Summer not Spring here). As I said though in my ‘before and aftermath‘ post, the Aussie bush always bounces […]
Happy New Year A neighbour is dead, others are homeless, the animals are cooked, our bit of paradise is razed to the ground AND the lunatics blame ‘climate change’. SMH. Photos below. We’ve just had a giant reminder that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. A time bomb some decades in the […]
You never know what thirst is unless you have travelled a whole day under the Australian sun without water. Rachel Henning, Australian pioneer (1862) It is a beautiful blue Spring day on the eastern seaboard of Australia, with no signs of climate catastrophe yet. For a change of pace, I think we should talk about […]
JAN 2020 UPDATE: DW reports Iranian General who planned Benghazi vaporised. It is 11 September 2019 FWIW, so I have written a poem to mark the day. Not intended to be exemplary verse or anything, just the first ever example of what I am calling Swamp Poetry in our sorry era of fake news. It […]
As the final day of CPAC Australia draws to a close, here are a few photos and takeaways from it. Thanks to my day job I could only attend the second day of the very first CPAC ever held in Australia so this is just a glimpse at the full event. If I’ve got some […]
APEC Sydney 2007 Maybe this wasn’t Black Bloc 1.0 after all but they sure look familiar. See below for more of the local APEC protests and what I did there. Recent events in Portland, Oregon were ugly and sad. I’m not sure when “minority groups”, or more importantly “woke individuals”, will appreciate that they […]
Too tired for many words tonight so just a few random thoughts and snips etc. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? asked Juvenal. Translated, this famous phrase means something like Who watches the watchers? Juvenal’s 16 satiric poems deal mainly with life in Rome… The Satires attack two main themes: the corruption of society in the city […]
Then. Now. Declassification. At last. Sunshine 🙂 Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election. It’s after six pm on the beach in […]
Update: Richard Fernandez on our own feast of Crispian. In case Wretchard the Cat ever notices this, which is ridiculously unlikely, I think the basic problem was that the average Aussie was pissed off. Maybe not about all the same things but largely in one direction about some key things. Wages have stagnated for years […]
UPDATE: Since I wrote the post below, the now famous Barr-brawl took place in Congress over the Mueller-lite outcome. It included the Left’s freakout over the perfectly accurate term, “Spy“. It showed that the Dems really do fear the walls closing in. On them. Even the New York Slime couldn’t avoid mentioning the elephant (err, […]
O Fairest flower, no sooner blown than blasted,… Yet can I not persuade me thou art dead,Or that thy corse corrupts in earth’s dark womb,Or that thy beauties lie in wormy bed,Hid from the world in a low-delved tomb;Could Heaven for pity thee so strictly doom?Oh, no! for something in thy face did shineAbove mortality, […]
TLDR VERSION: 9/11 was neither the beginning nor the end of history but it brought to an end the short-lived illusion of our ‘Fukuyama Age’ and steadily exposed, at least to me, the unwelcome presence of pride [ofermód] in the West—in others, in me—and that’s what this blog will explore. It was a global event […]