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Merry Christmas!

UPDATED A very Merry Christmas to you and yourn (just learnt from Kilroy this is Olde American), and may it be an enjoyable, safe, reflective and happy one. From Australia … Continue reading

26 December, 2006 · 9 Comments

USA Inc. Product Recall: Faulty Post-Invasion Democracy

Thank to my friend Abe in Sydney for forwarding this. I had initially missed this bit of larrikin Aussie humour last month, but then I’m not a regular reader of … Continue reading

22 December, 2006 · 3 Comments

Sydney: Let there be … less light; and, goin’ nuclear

If you wanted a taste of bizarre weather that might well be linked to climate change (that isn’t a hurricane, which have increased in severity and frequency), look no further … Continue reading

21 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

Channel surfing on Middle East TV

Its always a curious, interesting experience watching foreign language TV without subtitles. You can learn and discern a lot culturally, even without fully understanding the dialogue. At my parent’s place … Continue reading

15 December, 2006 · 15 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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