Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
Brisbane bus drivers are given DNA kits to track down expectorators? Seriously, what is the point of this? Okay so let’s assume your typical bus driver knows…
I recently moved from Westpac to CUA. This guy pulled $190,000 out of Westpac (in $20 bills) and moved to a Building Society. I want to see ONE…
This is what Chrissy and I watched this morning in bed. Not your usual breakfast TV. It’s a terrific talk. (via Beyond The Fringe)
UPDATE DECEMBER 2012 These days I’m using SOCIAL CHESS on the iPad to play turn-based games. I highly recommend it however you can’t export your games to .pgn,…
A great summation by David Swanson on AfterDowningStreet on his post about all of Obama’s broken promises so far: The lesson is not that you voted for the…
With the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, I’ve been reading up on the conspiracy theories, for and against. I personally don’t think it *was* faked, although it’s…
Most of the media coverage of the recent bombings in Jakarta seem to be skirting around the edges of… something. It seems that the target of the Marriott…
I am privileged today to have, as guests on the show, the director and subject of the film that won the Grand Jury Prize award in the U.S.…
Yet another Catholic leader turns out to be a paedophile – Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado. The only problem is that he’s dead and he escaped punishment. He also…
Tim Freke is the co-author (with his writing partner Peter Gandy) of many books about the Jesus myth – including THE JESUS MYSTERIES and THE LAUGHING JESUS. I…