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In the Shadowmaster’s response to viv’s 4-days-to-go post, he suggested that if his beloved Howard Government lost office he would produce and market a bumper sticker along the lines of
DON’T BLAME ME, I VOTED LIBERAL .
 
I suggest said sticker should carry an extended rider along the lines of - “but I guess I should take […]

The ABC are running a satire competition.
It’s by no means a dream to spend a week behind the scenes with the Chaser team, but it would be pretty cool.
Any chance ya reckon?

Here’s one for ya Viv - Halloween. 
I’ve got no problem with kids eating copious amounts of sweets and I’ve long since grown out of my youthful opposition to all things “Sepo’’ (septic tank, rhyming slang) but I cannot countenance young kids knocking on strangers’ doors and asking for lollies. 
I had several young girls - I […]

I am presently being trained to manage my career and the careers of those few who answer to me. The company for which I work is standardising its professional development systems and, to be fair, it is an even-handed process – everyone from senior management to the greenest foot soldier is forced to endure it. 
 
Part […]

Allow me to present a small selection of unrelated thoughts from a slowly disintegrating mind.
The Simpsons movie (2007) and the South Park movie (Bigger, longer and uncut: 1999) have few things in common but here’s two.
1) They’re animated.
2) They each begin with a message to the audience couched in a scene where the characters are […]

Howard wants to access school attendance records so he can punish parents whose kids wag school by “quarantining’’ welfare payments.
So, I ask again, do rich parents whose kids wag school miss out on tax cuts?

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As you’re no doubt aware, the Guggenheim Collection is in town and media outlets have been falling over each other to take us on a virtual tour.

One of the exhibits is a pile of lollies dumped on the gallery floor and visitors are encouraged to take one and think about the message portrayed by the […]

Golden1 makes THE BEST HOT CHOCOLATE EVER
“not me,’’ she claims, “it’s Alain’’ – WHATEVER!
Mercy’s blonde and claims not to be dumb
her friend Dave nooks vicariously and sits on his bum
Mattsfolio tells us you are what you eat
Skyhooks has 63 shoes for her feet!
Marywalsh thinks Glen Ira Council sucks
The bigfella (tours1) wants more tourism bucks
Bill nook’s […]

Envirogirl suggested I solve my sleeping woes by off-loading. Getting things off my chest, addressing all those lingering issues. (follow the link and you will also find Golden1’s best ever hot chocolate recipe - it’s FANTASTIC!) 
Anyway, Envi, great idea. I vented. And I enjoyed it so much I had to reproduce it here.
My brother dropped […]

Oh look, there are children overboard, and it’s an election year.
Only this time they’re really there, drowning in abuse in the nation’s north.
They’ve been tossed overboard by successive governments and a general population that frankly couldn’t give a toss.
 
Howard’s right – something must be done but it should have been done many years ago, probably […]