2009 was a year full of things that made me very angry.
The world is a terrible and unfair place. Some of the events that I found most shocking received extremely limited public attention. Obviously, not everything can be as important and exciting as Tiger Woods cheating on his wife. Below, I’ve listed four things that [...]
Man what a crazy few weeks it’s been. I’ve been trying to get into the frame of mind to write some sort of Climate Change related blog but before I put metaphorical pen to paper some new development happens that derails my original rant. From leaked e-mails to coalition leadership challenges to the ETS failure [...]
I gotta hand it to Husqvarna chainsaws. What better time to promote their chainsaw line than in the middle of Billy Connelly’s Journey to the Edge of the World – a program dedicated to exploring beautiful rugged terrains?
They say: “Celebrate 50 years in the forest with a Husqvarna chain saw.”
Because nothing celebrates preservation more than [...]
Before I go about my weekly angry ritual, I would like to acknowledge that if more people were as outraged about the death of Travis the chimp (whilst simultaneously missing the entire point of their outrage) as they ought to be about the thousands of civil wars that are going on around the world, the [...]
If the definition of karma is universal retribution for an individual’s wrong doing – then Pastor Danny Nalliah of the Catch the Fire Ministries (a branch of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God) has an unpleasant fate awaiting him.
Nalliah and some other members of the ministry have said that the Victorian bush-fires and the 201 resultant [...]
For once the weather forecasts were actually correct:
“Our weather conditions are as bad as they can get” – said County Fire Authority Chief Officer Russel Rees on the eve of the disaster.
“Hot northerly winds, low humidity, and a southwesterly wind change with no rain… If I said our weather conditions were ‘bloody horrible’, I am [...]
Stephen Conroy was promoting the government’s censorship proposal.
As 130 people died slowly, and painfully in the worst bush-fires in Australia’s history; as friends and family try to put the pieces together; with 200 people dead or missing, Stephen Conroy plans to celebrate “Australia participates in Safer Internet Day 2009? (scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday the 10th [...]
Sunday, December 20, 2009
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