Category: General Interest
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Statuary Declaration
HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare Candi Dasa, Bali Wednesday, Jun. 28, 2017 TEN days in the blissful zephyrs, beside the azure briny you get in the better parts of the archipelago, can do you a power of good. Such a break provides time to read books – or […]
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A Ridiculous Travesty
Bali, May 9, 2017 THERE are several things that can be said about the two-year jail sentence meted out to Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaya Purnama (Ahok) for his astoundingly correct but politically incautious observation that matters of religion are often subject to varying interpretations. One is that no one sentient would argue with his point. […]
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Capital Capers
HECTOR’S DIARY His diet of worms and other non-religious experiences The Cage, Bali Apr. 22, 2017 IT’S a shame that Basuki Tjahaya Purnama (Ahok) lost Wednesday’s ballot for mayor of Jakarta. He has shown a commitment to civic service that’s rare anywhere, but rarer still in Indonesia, where winning office is so often a licence […]
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Finding Refuge
Originally posted on The Global Goddess:
ON a balmy Brisbane evening I am slouched under a magnificent tree, savouring a plate of colourful African fare and sipping a Tusker malt lager. There’s but a whisper of a wind on this hot summer evening, just enough to scatter the tree’s tiny white flowers onto the faded… -
Hello, January
Originally posted on Lottie Nevin – The Red House Diaries:
New Years Eve ? Despite my best intentions, the festive red knickers that I’d ear marked for last night’s celebrations never did make it out of the knicker draw. Neither did I get round to making the lentil stew and, worst of all, the lucky… -
Passing Out Parade
He went to open an art show I’m just turning 72. I don’t expect short of an accidental interaction with Fate that I shall die particularly soon; but you’d have to be an incredible optimist to assume at that age that you’ll notch up anything like another seven decades. And you’d have to be […]
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Book Review: Cove
Originally posted on Tim Hannigan:
The first echo is there in the physical form of the book itself: a slender pinch of pages, little thicker than a floor tile; a thing to be handled carefully as if it might break, and to be read with a delicate dabbing, like eating some rare dessert. The next… -
On Hanson’s claims that women lie about sexual assault
Originally posted on No Place For Sheep:
Michaelia Cash, Minister for Women, hugs Senator Pauline Hanson ? My default attitude to Pauline Hanson is that my life is too short to spend much time contemplating her, however, an interview on Sunrise (no, I’m not linking) in which she gloated about the Trump victory and sputteringly… -
Waiting for the Last Trump
U.S ELECTION Sep. 29, 2016 Them good ol’ boys were drinking whiskey and rye and singing ‘this’ll be the day that I die’ – Don Maclean, ‘American Pie’ Update 10 Oct. 2016: This election sign somewhere in America says it all. THE 2016 American presidential election pits against each other two candidates for whom […]
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