Politicians explained

This pretty well sums up the MP’s of today. An elderly farmer was in the ER having stitches put in his hand due to an accident with a piece of machinery. The doctor carrying out the procedure struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the conversation got around to politicians and their role

Flood Photos July 2022

We have had a bit of rain the past week or so and experienced a bit of flooding. I found some aerial photos to show the extent of the flooding. The water is receding now, but still expect to be slightly cut-off for the next week. Can’t go south more than a few hundred metres

Mick’s Musing 2

I looked out the backdoor this morning and the paddocks across the rail line are more underwater than yesterday, almost an inland sea now. Must have something to do with the rain. By lunchtime the highway and other roads have been cut by water and the house on the mound is not looking real good

Antipodean Angst – part 11

War Like it or not humans are violent, and war is a part of our species and our civilisations down through history. Recorded history details this over and over. The further back in time, the less relevance we place on war and its impacts on people and societies and how it perhaps was somehow simpler

Antipodean Angst – part 10

Subversion as a tool To understand how a thing works you must understand the mechanics of a thing. The principles of subversion are ancient. Refining and adapting those principles to the era and the environment they exist in is more or less fine-tuning. Sun-Tzu, the Chinese military strategist was poking around roughly in 500BC and

In a Time of Madness

It increasingly seems that we are living in a time of madness. Just when you think that the craziness that has come to mark the 2020’s could not get worse, it does. I am referring in large part Australia, and then in the interests of inclusion and diversity include the remainder of the world. Australia

Antipodean Angst – part 2

Political Correctness ‘We are all drowning in filth. When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone’s thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a ‘case’ with deliberate suppression

Evolution is a Process

Evolution is a process that has been in motion since the Earth was formed, for the planet itself has evolved and continues to evolve otherwise it would still be exactly the same now as it was back when all that gas and dust coalesced. The debate in some circles continues as to when life began.