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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Making Dumb Groups Smarter

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 The reason a good and bohemian writers want to know about grammar rules is so she and he know when and how to break them to best effect. ...
Monday, December 22, 2014

NSW Parliamentary Arena: ALP's Vic win unlikely to replicate in NSW

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When the last firestorm to engulf John Robertson blew up last year over his admission that in 2006 he was offered a $3 million "brib...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Operation Socialist

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Stories of socialist rouble rule the world this week: Retailers had to change prices multiple times to keep up with the rouble’s fall. Sho...

Randwick Megawick Village: Divide & Rule

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Slavery and capitalism . The relationship between the two is key to understanding the origins of the modern world...  Loss of Common Sense a...

Diversity of Humanity

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“Human endeavor clumsily betrays / Humanity.”   Boswell reports Johnson saying on July 20, 1762:   “Pity is not natural to man. Children ...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Work Different, Think Different

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" Creativity " has become a buzzword. When paired with its mates ‘unleash’ and ‘unlock’, they suggest that a great swell of inhere...

Czech Out Harry Hotel a Cuban Pub on corner of Goulburn & Wentworth St

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Dirty Harry Data on Christmas songs Saroeun and Comrades please share this one -  a Cuban joke  which we hope will become obsolete: ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

What did the Romans ever do for us?

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Bankers, like alcoholics, must first admit they have a problem Financial Times (David L). They won’t and don’t have a problem unless the...

Brain Over Brawn

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"Some years ago," writes John Wilson, "I described the novelist and poet Marly Youmans as "the best-kept secret among...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

People are happier buying experiences rather than things

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Here is a good probe by James Hamblin in The Atlantic into the understanding that people are happier buying experiences rather than things...

Sydney under Seige at Non Halal Cafe

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Anti-Islam ‘Pegida’ march in German city of Dresden  BBC A day like no othe r  in a peace loving city of Opera House and Harbour Bridg...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Ring of Death Project Moscow

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Death on the Internet: The Rise of Livestreaming Funerals  Atlantic getting into Cold River mode IT has been described as the 'R...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

ABC of political issues

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"The functional role of a public broadcaster is to look at their audience as citizens in a democracy, not as consumers," Mr Demps...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Image of Precious Moments

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  1/15 New entries in the Open competition of the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards   2/15 'Orangutan in Th...