Month: August 2010

I must admit, I am growing fond of them all! In a political sense (there is no getting around the fact that they are all white males), I think this group broadly reflects the range of Australian values.

A bit of the face fell off a couple of weeks ago. It is beginning to look like Arnie at the end of the Terminator films. Continue reading I own a seven year old mobile phone

Rob Oakeshott’s plan for a mix and match government is far more clever than people give him credit for. Continue reading Post electoral uncertainty and the role of naivety

After traveling the North West USA for a week, your correspondent (together with Mrs TFC) finds himself in Seattle for a few days. Continue reading Who likes maps?

As a result of watching a lot of American television shows and movies, familiar-looking American faces seem to pop up everywhere: the uncle, the best friend, the sister, the neighbour, the put-upon wife, the drug dealer, the politician, the cop, the bar tender. I see these people every time I get on a train in Oakland. Continue reading Character actors one and all

I’ve made mistakes in life.  Many have been the result of too little coffee, too much alcohol or not wearing clean underpants.  But some have been mistakes of logic.  I want to stop making the logical mistakes at least, so I’ve been thinking.  Here’s where I got up to: Continue reading And that’s when I realised that almost everything makes no sense.

Counter culture radical, Dick Smith, the man whose face adorns a chain of consumer electronics stores across Australia, as well as untold millions of jars full of processed peanut fat, has launched a campaign to cut consumption. Continue reading Is Dick Smith being ironic?

Adjective: To be devoted to one’s State, as in Oregonians are very statriotic. Continue reading Bloglite – A new word: statriotic

We are heading up to Yellowstone National Park next week. With a population of about 600 Grizzly Bears (they’re the big ones, compared to the Black Bears in Yosemite), I thought it was time to become bear aware. Continue reading Are you bear aware?