Fingerprint those foreigners
Stating its reasons as public safety, the Japanese government is passing legislation to enforce fingerprinting for all foreigners. Vegetable Japan…
Month: November 2007
End of mean-spirited era
Before the election Julie Macken, writing for New Matilda, recalled some of the hard-core nastiness of the outgoing federal coalition…
Thank you !
Huge thanks to the people of Australia for this very fair and timely dismissal. Thank you so much. Will this…
Push through the fear of change
One of my favourite movie quotes is Wayne’s buddy Garth scrunching his face and weaselling out the words: “We fear…
but Jackie, Chaser is Funny Ha Ha
Today’s letter-to-the-editor writers suggest that the Liberal party hacks caught distributing fake pamphlets are another example of a party machine…
Limerick from Bookninja
Thank you Susan of Book Ninja for this limerick: There once was a fella named Chalk who wanted a book…
Redneck Competition?
Jon Faine asked me if Cairns was competing to be the most ignorant, rednecked place in Australia. i said it…
Consider Myself Lucky
This quote from a reader in the UK (The Register): “In the UK he’d get a bullet in the brain,…
That Cairns Pub Story
When i went dancing in that hotel in Cairns, i really didn’t think too much about the consequences. But i…