Forget all your politics for a while.
Let the color schemes arrive.
I knew it would happen eventually. The American Left and the American Right have moved so far apart that they’ve backed into one another. I heard both MSNBC ranter Keith Olbermann and talk radio screecher Mark Levin shouting about new safety regulations at American airports. [...]
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Everything’s gonna get lighter, even if it never gets better.
Coup d’etat in Australia?
Without an election, or even much drama, we have a new prime minister today. Julia Gillard, who will be Australia’s first female prime minister, took over from Kevin Rudd in a “bloodless coup“. Not as exciting as it sounds – it was actually a planned leadership vote in the Labor party, and Rudd stood down [...]
Oh, Your daddy’s rich and your mamma’s good lookin’
The first time you hear a kookaburra call is pretty damn spooky. Here, have a listen. But when I hear them now, cackling madly in the Australian sun, I sprint outside for a look. There’s something about these birds, something quintessentially Australian.
And in the height of the Australian summer, on the eve of Australia Day, [...]
He’s usually really wired on that cheap trucker speed
Back in my late teens and early twenties I had a particular fondness for White Crosses, the little bronchodilater pills that one could by legally at gas stations all over the country. They were ephedrine tablets, designed for folks with asthma but used with great gusto by dieters and for recreational purposed. And also by long [...]
I have to sing about the book I read
Thanks to Jen and Zen Mom for the heads up about Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the freedom to read. I’m a big freedom of expression Lefty and I find censorship of any kind intolerable. I wrote a post about my experience with books and the people who ban them last year and didn’t [...]
Don’t you see what life here has done to me?
28 Sep 2009 at 22:11
A Free Man
Australia, Britain, Country, Florida, Georgia, USA, expatica, politics
I feel, of late, that I’ve been veering uncontrollably into the Daddy Blogger genre. I guess that’s what a new baby and two weeks of paternity leave will do to a guy. This bothers me a bit, because one of the things that keeps me interested in blogging is trying to write about a wide [...]
Chickens don’t get no life after death
I’m finding it difficult to work up much energy for the Georgia-South Carolina game this weekend. Probably has a lot to do with the loss in Stillwater last Saturday, not to mention my still significant sleep deficit. Either way, I just can’t get up for this game. It should be a good one. Both teams [...]
Version six-point-oh of the American way
I wrote this on Monday, the day after the crime that evoked it. The post has sat in my drafts nagging at me since. I still don’t know if I want to post it but it is a few days later and I’m still angry, so what the hell. I asked Dr. O’C to read [...]
I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier
I’ve often been told that I have the face for radio. In fact, during my first stab at college I was briefly employed as a DJ in a Top 40 radio station in a neighboring town. Actually, I was employed for one whole day. I was hired to man the dials for the early morning [...]
Is that nauseating stream of words really dripping from your tongue?
I don’t write much about politics these days – too stressful – but for those of you that are new around here, I’m a pretty liberal guy. In fact, I’m a committed socialist – and proud of it. One of the reasons that I can’t imagine moving back to the States in the near future [...]
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