You have to laugh. Imagine throwing a party and a group of gatecrashers turns up. Continue reading
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Another Day, another Diet
What the world needs now is another diet, don’t you think? We have carbo-loaded in the Seventies which made us fatter. We low-fatted ourselves in the Eighties into obesity, low-glycemafied our systems into total confusion, not to mention more obesity. We Pritikined, Stillmaned, Atkinised and Zoned ourselves into morbid obesity. So where did that get us? Continue reading
Magnficent Obsession with Israel
What’s with the world that obsesses about a tiny country a third the size of Tasmania? So Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is having a small tumour removed from his prostate. No chemo, no radiation. Just minor surgery. Earth shattering news, apparently and I think I know why Continue reading
How political correctness murdered this toddler
Floating in a pond in Sydney was a suitcase which attracted the attention of several young boys. It had been there for a few days, when the curious boys decided to fish it out of the water. Continue reading
How to get free medical treatment in the U.S
There’s a very good chance that had Lanny Perry Barnes of Atlanta, Georgia, been a fine upstanding citizen he would have been dead by now. Continue reading
“Planet of the Apes” Spanish style.
Now that we have solved all of the world’s problems, namely, Famine, War, Terrorism, Disease, Genocide, and, of course, the big C, Climate Change, it’s time we turned our thoughts to our kissing cousins, the great apes.
There is a movement which started with the Great Ape Project or Gap for short, where else but in Seattle, a city that’s soaked in caffeine and rain, which wants to give human rights to all of the primates. All sorts of primates would be included in this bill of rights, from lemurs, to gibbons, to orangutans, chimps and gorillas. If I have omitted any other primates, please excuse me. The reason for this movement is a biological one because apes and man share all but 2% of DNA.
I think this is a marvellous idea though it is hardly a novelty since I’ve been a pioneer of the Gap movement without even realising it. Continue reading
Eight is enough
The latest research in the field of education is quite illuminating. Apparently, if we limit our lessons to eight minutes then pupils will benefit. After eight minutes, however, the level of learning declines, so teachers should keep it brief. My contention is that this is nothing new. Continue reading
Football fever and other religions
It’s a brave politician in Australia who will admit to not giving a damn about sport. If you want to get elected here you have to follow a football team and a cricket team and rave on about our sporting prowess. Continue reading
Marcel Marceau and the sounds of silence.
This week the world bid farewell to a great performer. Marcel Marceau, the famous mime artist, died at the age of 84 after a lifetime of brilliant communication without words. I’ll leave it up to the eulogies to sing his praises. What I want to write about is what he actually said on a visit to Australia many years ago. Continue reading
Another silly survey.
The headline in today’s Brisbane Courier Mail bowled me over. “New mums feeling the strain from sleep loss”. I picked myself up from the floor after that shattering revelation and reread the results of yet another useless study about Mummies and their problems. I had to make sure that I had not misinterpreted the article. I hadn’t. Continue reading
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