The beauty of free speech is that one can appreciate the absence of correlation between wealth and common sense.

Is there a bookshop in Sydney that might sell Adorno's Lectures on Negative Dialectics? I could buy it online, but I like books.

Is Israel a Crusader Successor State?

Am I alone in thinking that the recent US election revealed the predatory hold of capitalism over both sides of the US political system? Wonder how much dust is being swept off the Marx shelf.

Elon doesn't know how to read a room, just bounces in and opens his playlunch.

Did Steve Bannon do something naughty in Germany recently?

I wonder whether the Christian nationalists are getting their rocks off reading Revelations 13:16-17 at the moment. We live in lurching times.

I think when we see another photoshoot of journalists and politicians posing in front of a flooded town and speaking of 'resilient communities', we should know that they are saying, 'unlucky suckers'.

I wander in my thoughts on the Book of Revelations as whether it is theological ravings, or an acute poetical study of the psychology of power.

When pigs get their head in the trough, what do they think about?

Crossing the road on a pedestrian crossing and the driver of a turning Tesla waved at me to stop while they drove across the pedestrian crossing. Are Tesla drivers programmed by their cars to drive selfishly?

Curious, that out of the array of press covering the LA protests, it was the woman who was shot.

Is Disney's latest version of Snow White a critique of Donald Trump?

Walked into the papershop and the only paper I could buy was the Tely. Walked into Coles and Oz was the only paper.