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Entitlement Mentality: a personal perspective
All forms of media has been nothing short of drowning in Joe Hockey’s suggestion that Australia has an entitlement mentality which needs to be cut back. I am only going to link to one article, for the benefit of our many overseas readers, because this is my personal perspective. I am not entering into the […]
Dear Max Tomlinson
Recently I blasted the Governor of Wisconsin for his weird attitude to women, never dreaming a man in Australia could top it. Well, bloody hell, Max Tomlinson managed to leave me fearing for the future of equality of women yet again. I thought I’d drop Max a little note, but as I don’t have his email, […]
Equal Pay for women at risk?
Equal pay for women just took a beating in some backwoods state of the USA on March 31, 2012 in a very quiet way. My apologies to followers of ours who live in Wisconsin (I know there are a few) but for goodness sake, how the hell did this happen? I don’t often stray from […]
Equality does not mean sameness
On my recent article Bullying isn’t cool, Nancy of Spirit Lights The Way commented: When we accept ourselves “as is,” we are more able to shrug off the irrelevant opinions of others. Instead of poisoning ourselves by internalizing the hate, ignorance, and fear demonstrated by the bullies of life (who are trying to make themselves […]
Shoot me now, I have an iPad and I like it
As detailed on our “About” page, I am both an accountant and an information technology professional. Many years ago, before I was qualified in either profession, I worked for a company that had a funny little Mac thing. I hated it. I guess that is where my aversion to Apple products started. Back then Apple […]
Would you prefer to be a Rinehart or a sex slave?
Today I read two newspaper articles. Not an unusual event, I know. In one article three young (believed to be under 18), vulnerable women had been allegedly lured from Thailand on the promise of student visas only to become sex slaves in Australia. Due to a tip-off to the Salvation Army, the poor young women […]
I’m not a scary guy
Safe in your nice living room are you? No threat of having your hand cut off at the next election? Haven’t seen your wife, sister or mother raped lately? Not about to have your house burned or bombed? What if any of this applied to you? 150 (approx) people died recently trying to find freedom and […]
Application of Stereotypes – revisited
Back in December last year I wrote about the Application of Stereotypes. All Americans have big hair and perfect teeth. Do they? Not in my experience. The English only bath once a week. Highly unlikely, don’t you think? Australians are all binge drinkers. As a nation we have a well documented problem in this regard, […]
Is the law an ass?
Charles Dickens must have felt there was some truth to the thought, as the character of Mr Bumble expresses this sentiment in Oliver Twist. I have been trying to find a way to seek restitution from the Government for the financial, emotional and physical costs incurred during our journey. It seems that should I be […]
Reflections: Feeling The Glow Of Love… (via Mirth and Motivation)
Elizabeth published this today and it rang so true for me, for us! Please visit Elizabeth and enjoy her amazing selection of songs about love. I am certainly enjoying them immensely! “A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but […]
Random Observations of Life 