All we were saying…

“The thing that bothered most of our revolu­tion­ary broth­ers was the fact that we wer­en’t against any­thing, just for things, you know, like peace and love and all that naîve crap.” John Lennon, The Ballad of John...

Flowers!

razorgirl_au re-posted my ori­ginal post about the rally in her journal… and reminded me that my ori­ginal idea had some­thing to do with roses! Can anyone who remem­bers please buy/pick roses/flowers on the way to the fest­ival tomor­row? At least those of us up the...

Gimme a break, John!

I can make Sunday as apolit­ical as I like, it does­n’t stop my per­sonal opin­ions about the polit­ical dimen­sions of what’s going on here. I’m actu­ally really, really glad that tonight’s rally explored some of those polit­ical dimen­sions, espe­cially in...

Amazed

So, it may be the alco­hol talk­ing, but I am sit­ting here with tears in my eyes, having seen the beau­ti­ful thing that Cered­wyn made for us and seeing all of the amaz­ing things every­one is doing and read­ing some of the heart­en­ing responses from people...

Little or no jail for 11% of rapists

Okay, my little anonym­ous inter­locutor whose iden­tity I’m pretty cer­tain of… you want to talk about rape? This can be the appro­pri­ate forum… Accord­ing to today’s art­icle in The Age, one in ten rap­ists gets a par­tially or wholly sus­pen­ded jail...