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Just by reading this blog, you are disobeying the norm, the consensus. Congratulations! How did you come to this junction in your life? What made you decide to buck the trend and go out and assess the facts yourself and make a decision accordingly? I have often wondered about the make-up of people who have disobeyed [...] Recently I was on the receiving end of a fairly impressive left wing tirade coming from none other than my children’s father. I think what started this onslaught of liberal rage was a quite innocent comment from me about the habit of people to be horrified by seemingly paternalistic US foreign policy, when nations like [...] After all the recent posts about birds drowning in soup a la British Petroleum versus birds running into giant psychosis inducing shredders (aka “windmills” to most people), and some comment about treehuggers suggesting cat culls, I thought I might riff on this in relation to what we do Down Under. Y’know, just share The Crazy. Here [...] Welcome to Australia, a sunburnt country of sweeping plains, with one of the world’s most urbanized populations. In our heads, we buy into our own collective mythos that we are all rangy, tough, outback lads (and ladettes) who are good in a fight, tersely spoken and true believers in the concept of “mateship”. Once upon [...] So its been busy ‘round here at Casa Paua lately, and I apologise for my absence from ye olde blogosphere. Ive been busy with the almost-but-not-quite doctor thing, and got sidetracked by writing a research paper in a field that I don’t even like. A father-figure scientist asked me in passing if I could work [...] |
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