Month: December 2012
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,200 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 4 years to get […]
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Mothers who say F**ck
Originally posted on No Place For Sheep:
I recently engaged in a robust exchange of views with one of my sons. This particular adult child has long-held a reputation for forgetting to tell anybody things, unless we happen to be in the same room as him when something that might need to be told to… -
If This Was a Joke, You’d Laugh
Bali is a destination of choice for a great many kooks, and we often read about them through such beneficial mediums as The Beat Daily, a nicely presented and very lively online publication. But one recent arrival is well out of the ordinary run of events. Self-styled Brazilian virgin Catarina Migliorini, who is […]
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Dec. 26, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Way Not to Go It was interesting to read recently in the Bali Daily, the local wraparound masthead of the Jakarta Post newspaper, that university students here are protesting over a national government plan to eliminate teaching of the Balinese language from the school curriculum. It […]
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How I discovered my feminine side
I’ve never understood why the fact that men like to have sex with women (sometimes the reverse applies, it seems…) should so colour gender bias in every other aspect of life.
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The diversion of aid: Carr’s false comparisons
Originally posted on No Place For Sheep:
The Gillard government yesterday declared its intention to rob overseas aid of $375 million in order to help pay the living expenses of asylum seekers who have arrived in Australia by boat. The money will allegedly go towards supporting the resettlement of asylum seekers who have been released… -
This is a fun piece. And nothing beats a baguette,,,
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Raffles Revealed, in a Javanese context
Indonesians are apt to say they wish their former colonisers had been the British instead of the Dutch. It is a comment anyone who lives in the country, and who talks to ordinary people, hears at least once, if not repeatedly. The argument goes that if the British had run what later became Indonesia there […]
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Dec. 12, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences What a Stinker Sir Stamford Raffles is a footnote in history for having identified a swampy and malarial island at the bottom of the Malay Peninsula as the site of the future New Serenissima (Venice) nowadays known as Singapore. He is due that credit. He’s also […]
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