Cynicalisation

The Sunday Star Times came out with this: Olympian pimps bid with fundraising trick . Logan Campbell an Olympic hopeful in 2008 is trying to...

One baby boy, one wife and a modestly happy life, but you gotta wonder though, haven’t you….. To the best of my knowledge, my first gay admi...

Damien Hirst and I were born within a few days of each other, which would in most senses be a tenuous link. I've never met the guy and...

With the recent death of David Carradine I found one of the few reasons to have a television (there isn't one in the house). Ahhhh gras...

I guess the civil mischief that was the mass crossing of the Harbour Bridge can be seen in several ways: Cultural Rebellion, clash of Car K...

Stood in a corridor I looked towards the end door. There I saw a shoe, hanging from a foot attached to a slim leg, dressed in a foot loop s...

I guess that if I ever get really good at photography I will look on these with a patronising smile. But as it stands these are a cut above...

Hadyn Green over at Public Address started a thread on Sport and is it Art nothing new except for once I wrote and wrote well - This is w...

The drunk stick is a tale of the best excuse I ever heard. Back in the day when Universities selected rather than marketed and tutors spoke ...

Can't say this is original, I wrote it as a contribution to a thread over at Public Address - Someone paid me one of the kindest complim...

There is a lot to like about being in NZ but motoring is not one of them. New Zealanders don’t shoot each other a la USA; they kill each ot...

It seems foolish to mourn the death of a man who didn't know me; nor I him in truth. More important is to note the contribution he made...

I read with interest about the recent UCU vote to boycott Israeli academia and their decision to talk some more . I read with even more i...

Had to have a go myself........

My grandfather taught me to read. To begin with he read to me on Wednesday nights; he would come over on the ferry we’d have boiled eggs an...

I’m p****d off over this Kathy Sierra thing for a lot of reasons. i) People who perpetrate such nastiness from behi...

dignity noun 1 stateliness, seriousness and formality of manner and appearance. 2 goodness and nobility of character. 3 calmness and se...

i) The scientist and the science cannot be separated. Polanyi's still influential work points out that the scientists are informed by ta...

Well I didn't get it quite right last March but it seems clear that change is on its way. Either Apple shifts the market a la EMI or th...

If this recent article is to be believed then Saudi Arabia wants nuclear power. Vladimir Putin has agreed to help the Saudis out. I think...