A while back I sang the praises of China’s manufacturing industry but I now have to rescind my claim because this week it was discovered that some toys made in China for American firms were using lead paints which are dangerous when licked by young children. Continue reading
So you think you’re cultured?
Is it the generation gap?
On Saturday the 21st July we went to town. The day is important because it was on this weekend that the USS Kitty Hawk came to our city with its crew of five and a half thousand. They must have been looking forward to meeting some more Aussie girls or guys, I guess and having a pleasant time before the carrier made its final journey back to the U.S via Guam. Continue reading
How Queensland’s new smoking bans saved a woman’s life
Imagine going to work in a real estate office and being killed by a runaway SUV while sitting at your desk having a coffee. Continue reading
Yellow Streak in the Red Mosque
What is it about radical Muslims that makes them hide behind women and children in order to save their skins? If they are not capturing helpless women then they are dressing up as women to escape. How cowardly is that? No wonder Muslims are synonymous with the expression “Human shield”. And they dare call themselves warriors for Islam! Continue reading
Maniacal medicos.
Not poor! Not uneducated! Just bloody fanatics who are prepared to destroy lives instead of saving them. That’s who the latest mob of terrorists has turned out be. Continue reading
My Brother’s Keeper? Not bloody likely!
In Melbourne on Monday morning a fine upstanding citizen and a backpacker from overseas did the right thing by trying to stop a man from assaulting his girlfriend. Apparently, this man and this woman had been fighting in a taxi and as they stepped out into the street, the ruffian continued to hit her. Continue reading
Double Standard
If there’s any event that demonstrates the media’s prejudice against Israel it’s what’s happening right now in Lebanon. The Lebanese army is shelling Palestinian militants in refugee camps full of civilians. So where’s the outcry from the BBC against the Lebanese army? Where are the photos of mangled bodies? Imagine if the army doing the attacking was Israeli. Continue reading
We need to talk about “We need to talk about Kevin”
One of the most thought-provoking books that I have ever read is Lionel Shriver’s “We need to talk about Kevin”. I can’t imagine that fifty years ago it would have dared to be published, let alone win the Orange Prize for Literature.
So it’s a credit to today’s more candid society that Shriver could have written a book about a parent-child relationship that isn’t total bliss. Whilst the novel is described as taboo-breaking, gutsy and startling, which means that most people would have had some reservations about the theme of not really liking one’s child, the author has excused herself to some extent by making her child a sort of Damien Omen character and that is a kind of cop-out, in my opinion. Continue reading
Being un-Australian.
How easily does it slip off the tongue, that overused expression, “It’s so un-Australian.” So what does it mean apart from “I don’t like whatever so and so has said or done.”? And it’s always stated with an air of superiority as if being un-Australian is as low as one can go. Continue reading
Short but not sweet
Hasbro, the company which produces the most famous board games, has brought out quick twenty minute versions of Monopoly and Scrabble because nowadays there is no time to play a decent game. Apparently, our lifestyle does not allow children to play a game that may take a couple of hours. We are told that children today are so time poor that they have to emulate Road Runner (Beep Beep) on speed. What rubbish!. Continue reading
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