miscellaneous rant Archive

Temperatures are rising because of greenhouse gases; energy industry says renewable energy will cost more; Greens call energy industry self-serving. NZ cricketer says Aussie cricketers are arrogant; Aussie cricketer arrogantly dismisses criticism. Govt sticks to clichéd excuses and bland reassurances about David Hicks; Dems say govt will lose votes over it (in Balmain and Fitzroy). NSW Labor is dodgy as all hell. Invading Iraq was a bad idea. Celebrities are stupid, superficial and self absorbed. Men like ladies in skimpy clothes but mothers don’t like naked young men. Criminals have greater job satisfaction than police, but if you poison your husband with arsenic, you will probably get caught.

There are no feel-good movies about people who triumph over adversity while being plagued with self doubt and thinking they’re never going to succeeed. But there are plenty of movies about people who triumph over adversity because they always believe they are going to succeed even though nobody else believes they can do it. I think there’s a lesson in that for all of us . . .

Don’t go and see feel-good movies.

All my attempts to abdicate responsibility for life direction have failed today; I may be forced to to make my own decisions.

I seem to have good luck with storms. Made it home just before the whopper that’s currently sitting directly over my house, judging by the very loud and very immediate cracks of thunder. Storms and raffles. Not much luck with anything else at the moment, which is a cryptic comment about last night. Cryptic even to me.

Anyway, this is probably just a bunch of waffle to fill up space because all I really wanted to do was post a quote and couldn’t bear to go Alan Ramsey style and spend a whole column quoting someone else.

No serious person is without contradictions. The test lies in the willingness or ability to recognise and confront them.
– Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty and War

. . . same crap. Hopefully more often than the old blog.