Breathing space!

Right then… house to self… check. Func­tion­ing ana­lyt­ical brain… check. So how come no analysis?

I have not yet man­aged to kick the sense I’m on hol­i­day, although today’s phone calls to all and sundry sort­ing out insur­ance for the new bike, trans­fer of rego for the new bike, and vari­ous other tedi­ous tasks, felt more like work than any­thing I’ve done all year.

I also had a great con­ver­sa­tion this morn­ing about media fram­ing and ethics and last night about Howard’s brother’s envir­on­mental idiocy.

So, although I’m not ready to do ana­lysis yet, I’ll start easy with a couple of Polit­ical Things Wot Have Sparked My Ire This Year.

1. Howard giving Packer a State Funeral 
2. The news that the Japan­ese Gov­ern­ment has hired a NZ PR firm to pro­mote whaling 
3. This busi­ness about the Aus­tralian Wheat Board making cor­rupt pay­ments to Saddam Hus­sein while sanc­tions were in play 

So, sorry, reg­u­lar read­ers, the polit­ical stuff will be a little while longer again… Soon, though, I think. The brain, she is firing up…