Had a meal in a cafe the other day in a big city not a million miles away. Very poor, almost inedible. These days I’m pleased when I find a good meal. Often the meals seem prepared with little care or attention, using frozen or preserved ingredients, precooked and then reheated in microwave, and so [...]
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Factory floored
Posted in Education, Economics, tagged health, education, australia, farms, food on February 5, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Ignorance is strength
Posted in Education, Media, politics, tagged australia, australian election, Climate Change, conservation, creationism, education, elections, george orwell, history, media, public schools, religion, science, television on January 30, 2012 | 21 Comments »
How can every human being on the planet not spend their days being puzzled about pretty much everything? Every day I ask myself questions like: How does that work? Why did that happen? Who was responsible for that? What was the purpose of that? Where did that come from? Constantly, one or more of the [...]
A little learning
Posted in Education, tagged australia, education, federal election, public schools, tony abbott on December 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »
When I was a young fellow, turned 14, the minimum age at which you could leave school, people demanded of my mother that I leave school, get a job, support the family. Fair enough. No one in the family had ever, for financial reasons, stayed at school past that age. And it was what people [...]
Fit to print
Posted in Media, politics, tagged australia, Climate Change, education, elections, media, media inquiry, newspapers, press council, television on November 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Much talk about the Australian media inquiry lately, and the inquiry into Murdoch’s activities in Britain. Calls for regulation on the one hand, outraged reaction about government control of a free press on the other. Fairfax Media chairman Roger Corbett said limits on media would be a ‘terrible mistake’. The Right emerged blinking from Think [...]
The loaded hot dog
Posted in Economics, Media, tagged alcohol, australia, drugs, education, food, health, junk food, media, television on October 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Did you see where Denmark has placed an extra tax on fatty foods to try to begin reducing obesity problems in their society? Don’t know why the Scandinavians are so much better at this kind of thing than we are. Yes I do. The other day an expert suggested raising the tax on soft drinks, [...]
Let us all rejoice, rejoice
Posted in Atheism, tagged America, Atheism, creationism, education, religion, tony abbott on September 27, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Did you see that some Christian school in Australia had rewritten the second verse of the national anthem to include a whole lot of stuff about some god or other? Look I know national anthems are crap. “our home is girt by sea”? Sounds like something Monty Python might write. And grown up people singing [...]
Never on a Sunday
Posted in Atheism, tagged Atheism, creationism, education, history, infrastructure, religion, richard dawkins, science on September 2, 2011 | 12 Comments »
The big advantage of having an atheist prime minister is that she can give the country seven days a week hard work instead of spending Sundays in the company of imaginary beings and people who believe in imaginary beings. You get 14% more work out of an atheist prime minister than a god-botherer. But in [...]
I can see clearly now
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atheism, creationism, education, science, space exploration, space shuttle on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sad to see the last shuttle flight recently. Seems to have been around forever, though it was only 30 years. But over those years it had begun to look increasingly dated, more like a Model T Ford than a Prius, and the time had obviously come to retire it. Space exploration will continue, and indeed [...]
Count me in
Posted in politics, tagged Australian census, census, education, infrastructure, libertarians, public schools on August 7, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Australian Census Day has come again (can it really be five years since the last one?). People complain about having to fill in a form, just as they complain about having to vote, but I enjoy it (although given my somewhat unusual history and circumstances some questions make me pause to think). In fact I [...]
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