This is not what I was planning to write…

Just had an intense and mean­der­ing con­ver­sa­tion with Doug that star­ted with the US gun laws (due to the recent Supreme Court decision) and ranged to changes in styles of female viol­ence due to fem­in­ism, rights cul­tures versus duty cul­tures, build­ing...

End of an era

Today is the last sit­ting day of the Senate, and because our Senate changes over mid-year, no matter when the Sen­at­ors were elec­ted, those Sen­at­ors whose terms are up finish today and the newly elec­ted lot start next week. We put half the Senate up for renewal...
Protected: Kokopelli is my co-pilot

a cheap holiday in other people’s misery

I’ve been mean­ing to say that this art­icle in The Age about hon­ey­moon­ing in the Mal­dives con­tras­ted so strongly with timur_i_lenk ‘s reports of his work there with UNICEF that I could­n’t help but start singing Dead Kennedy’s songs or think­ing about...