Let we forget that some people who worked in the most secret of places during the war did so for a country during war even though their country though that their homosexual life style was “gross act of indecency” such as Alan Turing and tried to modify their errant behaviour by chemical [...]
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Well there was a tragic copyright case recently. On Spicks and Specks, they pointed out how an iconic Australian rock song contained a section that was lifted from Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum tree. So the owners of the copyright took Australian Crawl to court and won. Only then did it become known that the tune was stolen by Marion Sinclair from a welsh folk song. So now the question has to arise, how will Marion’s estate pay back all those illegally gathered royalties?
Continue reading Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree A recent aeroplane crash reminded me of something that has been bugging me for sometime. I have been watching over the last decade as a need to seems to have developed to state the nationality of the deceased. Maybe they did it before and I had not noticed. But I think it is strange. I guess it falls into the category of, should I be worried. If I am an Australian and there are no dead Australians, then I need not worry that one of the dead may not be someone I know. Perhaps there is more to it than that? I think that the whole thing is a bit tragic. Maybe you can feel safe travelling if the planes that crash only have non-Australians on board?
Continue reading A strange fascination with Nationalities Well as all pundits get on with their self appointed task of telling everyone how great Australia is, it is a good time for reflection on all the other bits. I have never believed in Nationalism. I guess it is like Religion. It as an opiate of the masses, but more than that it is the opiate of the government, to be dolled out is large quantities to calm the masses and get them to do things they might not otherwise be willing to do by providing a larger cause. I am not against national governments. I just think that they are a stepping stone along the way in the evolution of the governance of the planet and we need to move on. A few years back I spent Australia day with the Pom who had just turned ozzie on the Central Coast. I did not believe how many Australian flags I saw flying. You don’t get that in the city.
I have noted that different cultures have different approaches to how to order communal food: Continue reading ordering styles Apparently some stupid noggin thought that this statue of a boy should be wearing speedo’s, but the offending clothing has been removed. Yay! This weird post turned up on a couple of places. There is another one on another site that I will get when I get around to it… Church at Lerum, by philblackburn If you apply some free market theory to religion, then, if you are after a religious experience you should shop around to find the one that suits what you want out of life. So if you are gay, perhaps the better thing to do is find [...] Now, I don’t doubt that Mary was a good person. But I do not believe in miracles. Particularly ones that involve faith healing of serious disease. It is good to have belief that you will get better, and there is without a doubt a placebo effect and a need for motivation to [...] Well today I made a post on facebook about star trek. So I will write my view of what roddenbury was doing:
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