Our extended family have always been inveterate coin collectors (and stamps but that’s another story). Oh not collectors in the sense of joining clubs, and shopping for rarities online, and having every Australian threepence, or a 1930 Australian penny; but collectors in the sense of putting in a jar unusual coins picked up here there [...]
Posts Tagged ‘history’
Three coins in a fountain
Posted in politics, tagged australia, coins, commemorative coins, history, old coins on February 19, 2012 | 5 Comments »
To be hanged with the bible
Posted in Atheism, politics, tagged Climate Change, science, religion, Evolution, health, Atheism, tony abbott, australia, media, richard dawkins, law, steve fielding, creationism, history, America on February 12, 2012 | 53 Comments »
When the bible was written humans* didn’t know: About bacteria and viruses and parasites Blood circulation Earth going around sun More than 5 planets About galaxies There was a southern hemisphere Earth round What lightning is That whales aren’t fish What mental illness involves About genes and inheritance About Chinese, Aztecs, Zulus, Aborigines, Navaho, Japanese, [...]
Fiddling while Rome burns
Posted in Media, politics, tagged history, media, Syria, television on February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
It’s one of those “what-ifs” of history. You know – what if the Japanese in World War 2 had modern fighter planes, what if the Romans had tanks, what if the Spanish Armada was composed of steamships. But another version involves communications. What if the internet, mobile phones, twitter and email, digital still and video [...]
Give the order
Posted in Climate Change, Media, politics, tagged America, australian election, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, conservation, environment, global warming, history, king canute, monarchy, Sarah Palin, tony abbott on February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
You all remember Old King Canute taking his throne down to the beach, right – “Cnut set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes. Yet “continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal [...]
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 [...]
Kissing Cousins
Posted in Evolution, tagged creationism, Evolution, history, richard dawkins, science on January 23, 2012 | 7 Comments »
[Note this was written to follow on from discussions which began in comments on post "When you wish" below and continued into those of "Extraordinary". One of my most regular commenters on this blog, Eric, is trying to understand evolution. I, we, are trying to help him. This post arose from Eric's comment that "I [...]
Through early morning fog I see
Posted in politics, tagged America, australia, death penalty, history, mandatory sentencing, prison, stolen children, suicide on January 13, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Don’t know if you remember, but last year there was a lovely story about a long ago failed suicide attempt. A young woman’s fiance had died (I think, or jilted her) and in her despair she threw herself off the Gap in Sydney. I forget the precise details but she missed the rocks below, landed [...]
Counting out his money
Posted in Economics, Media, politics, tagged australia, banking, banks, business regulation, Carbon Tax, ceo salaries, economy, free marketeer, history, law, monarchy, regulation, religion, think tanks on January 7, 2012 | 9 Comments »
What slogan is above the door of the free marketeer’s think tanks? No, it’s not “Abandon hope all ye who enter here”, you naughty people. It’s “Government small enough to drown in a bathtub”. These people believe that “government” should leave banks and financial institutions alone, get rid of regulation, has no business in business, [...]
World turned upside down
Posted in politics, tagged australia, Climate Change, global warming, history, religion, science on December 31, 2011 | 6 Comments »
When I was young, a year or two ago, the world seemed a somewhat predictable place. You knew, each New Year’s Eve, what you would be doing, as school year followed predictable school year. You knew what family would be doing, as they lived daily lives, worked at long-term jobs. The country seemed predictable, Robert [...]
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