Pole Position
Sometimes I have the attention span of a gnat and sometimes it’s infinitely longer than my years. And more than once I’ve been sorely tempted to give up and throw in the towel. I didn’t. I put this down to discipline. The kind applied through commitment, hard work, patience and endurance. It’s taken all of […]
The Food Bill: 160-2 (2010)
It’s a spanner in the works. The first record of that phrase in print is in P. G. Wodehouse’s ‘Right Ho, Jeeves’ 1934. John Lennon used a play on this phrase in his book ‘A Spaniard in the Works’ and like most Brits in the 1950s he was a fan of ‘Professor’ Stanley Unwin, a […]
The Merchants of Menace
The flight plans of travellers everywhere have been perversely disrupted in a recent decision by Australia-based Qantas Airways to ground it’s aircraft around the globe. These actions typify what amounts to the paying public being used as collateral damage in the tussle between the Company and three worker Unions: TWU, AIPA and ALAEA.
Tunnel Vision
Sometimes we mistake bloody mindedness for tunnel vision. It isn’t. And it’s a common mistake among those who think it is. But where being bloody minded makes us stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to co-operate; tunnel vision on the otherhand keeps what matters central in our vision. The effect is a constricted circular tunnel-like field of […]
DNFTT
‘Crazy-making’ just got dirtier. And these days, we dance it up like never before. To me, it’s as if the marauding nature of the online social-packs bolster a person’s bravado enough for them to do a quick hit and run on anyone, for any reason just because they can.
