I know my music tastes are wildly different from most of my readers, but I one of the reasons I blog is to remind myself of things so I am going to list my favorite music from 2008, in a couple of categories. I have a couple of follow ups on this, but this covers [...]
Jumping the traditional January first kick off for the annual Summer Of Fear competition Sharks have kicked off early by ‘taking’ a man near Perth. By ‘taking’ I am pretty sure they mean chewing on, not going to a party together. This breach of contest etiquette was quickly matched by perennial favorites, the Squirrel who [...]
Ok the best of the year for a newspaper column again goes to
This lady is a hero, but the story is filled with lots of little cues on why being a real hero is hard. Her story in short is that she got a bid for work on home repairs, that lead her to expose massive fraud but after six years her home still wasn’t fixed. The [...]
I have traveled to the United Kingdom for years and I watched as their police forces stopped policing and started to rely on cameras for all speed enforcement. I understand why it was appealing, the police officer never has to listen to another excuse or deal with a belligerent driver but I would point out [...]