Raven Paradox

Why are people such pricks?

Yesterday I went out the back to check on the wonderful little organic vegetable garden. It is a small 10m x 80cm plot at the back of our property at the end of a common lane way.

Lovingly nurtured in this vegie garden are:

• Several types of chilli including the Habanero, Cayenne and Bulgarian Carrot varieties
• Black Russian tomatoes
• Capsicums
• Beans
• Rockmellon
• Normal tomatoes

Upon arriving at the garden I was shocked and more than a little pissed off to find that some inconsiderate arsehole had decided that it would be a good idea to rip up a couple of plants, tear the branches off a few others (including one with 12 new, unripened habanero on it - I was really looking forward to sampling them) and rip up a couple of the stakes holding up the tomatoes.

As it is a private laneway, it could only have been one of the co-users or their guests - which pisses me off even more because I had planned to deliver everyone a parcel of the fresh goods once they had ripened.

After this, my charitable instincts have been somewhat dulled. Yes, the majority of the garden has survived but why would someone do such a thing in the first place?

It is nothing but vandalism and will sadly mean that I have to install some kind of security device - be it a fence or a camera - to prevent it from happening again.

Picture by André Karwath.

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Bill Leak is a genius at succinctly capturing the Australian political climate.

Here are some snippets from his pen as published in The Australian over the past two weeks.

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John Howard is rattled.

I can’t ever remember having seen him in such a state at any point over the past ten years.

With the opposition leader Kevin Rudd polling a phenomenal 65% as preferred PM - a popularity not seen in over 35 years in an opposition leader and Howard & Co bereft of ideas, “Honest John” it would seem, is somewhat worried.

It cannot be denied that Howard has, since his resurrection, the infamous Lazarus with a triple bypass, been a consummate politician. He has been a master of wedge politics. He has had an uncanny ability to read and measure the feelings of the populace - and unashamedly use them no matter how deplorable they may be. He has ruled over his own party room with a control afforded no other in the history of this country. Such has been the man’s determination that “Mr 18%” - once paraded on the front page of The Bulletin under the heading “Why does this man bother?” has consistently dominated his opponents during his time in office.

Times to be changing however.

Howard has never before appeared as rattled as he does now.

The people are hungry for change and are thoroughly sick of the hubris that this government has been foisting upon it for far too long now.

It is this hubris, combined with the realisation of the hunger of the people for fresh ideas and a less mean spirited environment in which to live that is driving Howard to make the mistakes that are so uncharacteristic of him.

His dreadful arrogance in attempting to lecture an American presidential candidate was a terrible error of judgement and one that will be difficult for him to escape from.

We must remember that at the last election Howard took Latham to task for “jeopardising” the US alliance with his anti-Bush rhetoric. Come 2008, it is entirely possible that the Yanks will have a Democrat president. A president who may well resent Howards implication that the Democrats are the preferred party of Islamic terrorists.

Labor leader Kevin Rudd, in one of the most eloquent speeches to parliament that I have heard, spells it out much more succinctly than I could hope to.

The videos total twenty minutes but are well worth a viewing:

Part I

Part II

Part III

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Richard Dawkins is probably the most important thing to have happened to the world since Einstein.

A word to the unwise - he is a gifted evolutionary biologist who is attempting to re-establish some modicum of sanity in a global society that is slowly but surely going insane.

Forget global warming and the hole in the ozone layer, we are in grave danger of being swamped by a much more sinister problem - logic melting and holes in our rationality.

The resurgence of fundamentalist religious zealotry is a truly frightening thing.

I will write some more about this incredible man in the not too distant future - in the interim, enjoy the following video:

http://richarddawkins.net/home

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No words need to be said…

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What the bloody hell is going on?

Is nothing sacred?

Why is everything becoming Americanised?

The latest disgrace in the Americanisation of Australia is the importation of that damned acronym “SUV”.

The only time that I tend to watch commercial television is during the cricket season and this year it seems that we have stopped referring to 4WDs as 4WDs.. possibly due to the bad connotations that the word conjures up in the mind of the environmentally aware/pedestrian and smaller vehicle safety conscious Australian.

This…

… is a 4WD. It is not an SUV.

Harold Scruby - sit the fuck up and take some notice of this deceitful attempt to get more of these annoying mechanical hulks onto our roads.

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