Category Archives: Politopical

What’s your top tip to be successful in life? I wish I knew.

Get Lost!

I would like everyone associated with Get Up! to define, exactly, what their position on democracy is and how they intend to support free speech, clear and transparent communication and reporting, and freedom from harm.  Without these values, our society slips closer to being a paranoid cult based on either religion or ideology, neither ofContinue reading “Get Lost!”

Slipped

Something happened in 2020something that you may know aboutsomething many didn’t enjoysomething that caused many to die And die they didin China and Australia and the USAand donning my tin foil hatI must throw something into the fray Having taught English for 20 yearsto an entire country of peoplewho never came acrossplurals and singulars… ItContinue reading “Slipped”

List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? Euripides, Medea: the laws of gods vs the laws of men Miller, The Crucible: the stupidity of GroupThink and religion Asimov: Foundation (original series): secular science protects us

What are you good at? Comparative analysis and abject silliness.

Have you ever broken a bone? Only two. Broken my heart a few more times than that.

What sacrifices have you made in life? Self-determination. Been recovering that but it’s much easier to give away than to generate.

Go West

Life is peaceful thereIn the open airYou can live life newThis is what we’ll do!– Thanks for the quote, Pet Shop Boys! The PM, in 2023, described Australians who are proud to be Australian as ‘dark forces’. This turn-about in the PM’s statements regarding reality was not the first, nor the last. He has oftenContinue reading “Go West”

What is your career plan? Ill-defined.

Being

How do you want to live? I love where I live. I can get in my car, drive about and help people, earn money, visit places. I can go shopping and buy what I need, and even what I want, and trundle home again. No one tells me what I can and cannot eat, IContinue reading “Being”