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An interesting comment in a book review in today’s A2 section of The Age (not online). Andrew Rutherford is reviewing “Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin”. At the end, he makes this comment: But it is wrong to mention in … Continue reading →

See here and here. No more comment, because, as John O’Grady (aka “Nino Culotta”) wrote in the preface to his novel “They’re a weird mob”, I don’t want to get bricks thrown through my window.

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can,and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they really pissed me off…I wonder how … Continue reading →

Yes, and I thought it was about time to update my Year of Grace blog as well. Exciting revelations in this entry

A royalist aquaintance of mine, George Bougias, draws some interesting conclusions from the recent publication of the United Nations Human Development Index. He writes: Six of the top ten nations are Constitutional Monarchies. I am happy to live in Australia … Continue reading →

The picture above was posted by the Cooees crowd in a blog complaining about the shoddy journalism of the Brisbane Catholic Leader. The story relates to Archbishop Denis Hart (“our +Denis”) launching the Australian Association of Catholic Bioethicists at a … Continue reading →

… and then we ourselves will be God. (Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, p.257) No, I don’t think he is actually suggesting this as a good idea. He is suggesting that this is “the logic of the modern age, of … Continue reading →

Well, I finally finished reading this classic volume, first published over fifty years ago. I’m not going to do a very long blog on it, as to do it justice would not only require several thousand words, but also many … Continue reading →

“It’s a whole lot easier to get through life if you don’t expect much from it in the first place.” It’s an original Schützism, so I give you permission to use it. A little nihilistic, perhaps? Or cynical? I often … Continue reading →

It’s the last week of January, and here in Australia, that means the last week of the summer school holidays and the last week before everybody starts expecting you to actually start doing something productive while at work, so between … Continue reading →