Shaun Cronin
99 Dollar Riff
Those that watch Rockwiz may be aware of a segment called Million Dollar Riff. The idea of the segment is the Rockwiz Orchestra plays a selection of riffs (musical motifs) from songs and the contestants have to guess the correct [...]
The nature of the social contract involved in military service
In the comments on the post regarding the death of Andy Olmsted, regular commentor Graham Bell suggested: Suggest a topic for some time in the future: the nature and the future of the social contract, not the legal contract, involved [...]
So who benefits from the Australia v India cricket stoush?
Some of you may have noticed that cricket has dominated the news for the past few days. The aftermath of the Sydney test has released a wave of recriminations, hyperbole and effigy burning not seen for many a year. First [...]
Vale Andy Olmsted
Obsidian Wings is a US political group blog that is worth reading. The posts are well written and, by avoiding the usual partisan blogging battle grounds, quite thought provoking. Unfortunately one of the members of Obsidian Wings was killed recently. [...]
Walking back to Zimbabwe
I’m not the world’s best Facebooker. I ignore it most of the time with the occasional looksee every now and again. But one thing about Facebook that is cool is rediscovery of lost friends. One of these friends is Nyasha. [...]
What does an atheist do for Christmas?
Christmas time can have a tendency in the US to highlight the cultural battle grounds of religious belief. Commonly there is the pathetic sight of the powerful and privileged indulging their persecution complex by claiming there is a âwar on [...]
The AHA are crying in their beers
Last night, if you were out and about in Sydney, you may have just heard at various pubs (under the constant dissonance of doof doof music and pokies) members of the Australian Hotels Association (AHA) crying in the beers. The [...]
Bigotry as a family value
Family First candidates just can’t help themselves. After Andrew Quah, Ben Jacobsen is the next Family First candidate suffering a case of indecent exposure. The indecency in this case is bigotry as in Jacobsen’s strange request that Liberal candidate for [...]
AHA starting to lose the battle against small bars
While the nation wonders how it is going to survive another four weeks of election campaigning, Sydneysiders are focusing on more important issues such as Clover Moore’s Small Bar bill. As previously discussed on LP, the aim of the bill [...]
Family First candidate dumped for exposing his policy
In the United States, a pleasing aspect of the so called family values politicians that pander to the religious right is that many seem to trip over their own self-righteous feet of clay. Witness the downfall of Larry Craig and [...]
How to lose a marginal seat
1. Be the sitting member for a seat, namely Dobell, in which water supply is a critical issue. 2. Make sure that you promote your role in securing a $80 million project to build a new pipeline. 3. Threaten to [...]
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