Counterintuitive …
Let me declare a conflict of interest … I’m a vegetarian. But not a proselytising vego. Where the rain falls you can feed me on just 10% of the arable land required to feed people on meat. Great. But you can’t grow cabbages in the desert. So far as feeding people goes the rangelands can only be used for grazing animals. Australia is mostly desert.
The unabridged version of this talk can be found <HERE>.
Canberra comes to life … ?
ABC headline “Canberra comes to life with 3D mapping“.
It’d take more than that.
Storm in a teacup …
It was a cold and stormy night and the captain said “Gather round, me hearties, and I’ll tell ye a tale … It was a cold and stormy night and the captain said … ”
… and another fourteen <HERE>.
Tax …
A tax on email, please don’t tell Conroy.
Out west …
The guy leaves, . . . but, he is curious . . . So he goes back into the bar.
The guy leaves, but finds it very interesting, so he decides to try it one more time.
The robot leans in real close and says, “Tell me, you people still happy with Gillard?”
The oracle …
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!Dorothea Mackellar 1904.
cartoon filched from JoNova
Mixed emotions …
I feel sorry for Jon Faine today … the very sad news of the death of Hugo Chavez will diminish the celebration of Ted Baillieu’s departure. Life is such a rollercoaster.
Mr. Shaw again …
You should have sacked him when I told you to, Ted.
That way you would have looked like a leader.
The western front …
A link to Rooty … Gillard wants to win the votes of people she’s too scared to meet.
