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Ay, caramba!
The ALP has been getting on message just recently, the whole front bench is currently singing from the same hymn sheet across a wide array of media denominations. It’s a post budget moment for sure, s… more →
Rustichello's Folly
Ay, caramba!
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wrote 3 days ago: The ALP has been getting on message just recently, the whole front bench is currently singing from t … more →
long hard times to come
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wrote 3 weeks ago: When I was a boy drought felt like the tenor of the times. When the rain stopped and the grain truck … more →
fortune teller
wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve been reading with interest the accounts of life with HECS debts on Music for Deckchairs post Ow … more →
watching the pallbearers
wrote 1 month ago: There is something of an ending coming upon the ALP. It is the end of a long conversation, a discour … more →
a hole in the bucket
wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been striving for something, a means to make my resources go a bit further without needle … more →
we on the sofa
wrote 2 months ago: The final scene in John Sayles’ Eight Men Out features John Cusack (as Buck Weaver) sitting on some … more →
not a fake moai
wrote 3 months ago: Shortly before Christmas I found myself at a rainy market, on a morning of cold showers and a harsh, … more →
on a level playing field...
wrote 4 months ago: Late last year US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, crossed the Pacific and came to hang out with … more →
worthy burden
wrote 4 months ago: Ever read a Clive Cussler novel? There was a summer somewhere in the 1990s when I read quite a few o … more →
machine sans fantôme
wrote 4 months ago: After the fag ends of the cricket yesterday afternoon I found myself at the pub discussing the forth … more →
empire building
wrote 5 months ago: Deep in the dark recesses of the early seventies a man named Michael Oliver, a real estate entrepren … more →
Below Stairs
wrote 5 months ago: “all my life in domestic service I’ve found that employers were always greatly concerned with … more →
the market ate my homework
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wrote 5 months ago: So here’s a whinge, an unreconstructed rant really: markets are inventions. We make them, we devise … more →
faith no more
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wrote 6 months ago: Some years ago I was a casual academic. I taught classes and marked essays. It was great fun. For a … more →
meandering thoughts about elections
wrote 6 months ago: The state of play in Ohio remains of concern, though the jeep ad fiasco might well see Obama safe. I … more →
How do you like them apples?
wrote 7 months ago: The recent compilation of fifteen years worth of scuttlebutt and allegation by the USADA regarding L … more →
may the odds be ever in your favour
wrote 7 months ago: Recently my brain has been on strike, it won’t do what it was doing a few weeks ago, it’s not doing … more →
“I’m only going to talk to Gladys”
wrote 8 months ago: It was on election night that Barry O’Farrell said he would only talk to Gladys, and as far as I can … more →
big boys toys
wrote 8 months ago: For quite a number of years I have thought that Mahmoud Ahmedinejad was playing games with the world … more →
