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Head for the Hills, Gabblers
HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Oct. 12, 2016 WELL, the Diary is ready for the feast. This will not be in Hotel California style. We’re not much into steely knives and we certainly don’t want to kill the beast. Not that what we’re talking about is a Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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That Greens Walkout: No, Senator, it was a Stunt
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Sep. 18, 2016 PAULINE Hanson is an idiot: I mean in the general conversational meaning of that term, not the clinical diagnosis of that unfortunate condition. Her views on all sorts of things are ignorantly laughable, some are just plain dangerous, and all of them attract support from small, irritably disaffected corners of the Continue reading
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No Nooky Nonsense, Please
HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Sep. 14, 2016 THE view that the state should legislate morality and sexual conduct is hardly novel. Those who think they know better are ubiquitous. They appear in all societies, proselytising a prescriptive view of how their fellow citizens should behave. This Continue reading
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Drink Up
Bali, Sep. 12, 2016 There’s been a flurry of reignited interest in the potty proposal of certain hardline Muslim legislators in Jakarta to place a blanket ban on alcohol throughout their prospective Indonesia Raya. The only thing new about the proposal is that it has just surfaced in a story in the UK Daily Telegraph. Continue reading
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Shibboleths Revealed
HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali, Aug. 31. 2016 Expatria, the spreading collection of dots that peppers the map of Bali like kibbutzim, as if it were the beginnings of an overbearing expropriation, had an unpleasant frisson of ferment recently over the tragic death of a policeman in an Continue reading
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They’re a Scream
HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Aug. 17, 2016 If the acquisitive cartel of private interests and public officials that really runs Bali wants to turn the island into Disneyland, it must be conceded (through gritted teeth) that they can. The electoral check on such excess is even Continue reading
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Hector Revealed
The squawking cockatoo has outed himself, by invitation but reluctantly since he and limelight are not a good match. This Q&A from the Siapa column in the Bali Advertiser of Aug. 3, 2016, may perhaps interest some people. Richard Laidlaw: Bali Diarist Richard Laidlaw was born in Britain towards the end of World War II Continue reading
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Something’s Missing
HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali, Aug. 3, 2016 Young Australians and alcohol have a habit of not mixing very well. It’s a part of the national kaleidoscope that fractures the preferred public image of the land down under and reveals the reality of Australia today. It’s not only Continue reading
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