INAPPROPIATE BEHAVIOUR

Where does the line between freedom of expression and self-censorship lie? It’s a question I’ve been pondering since Sunday evening when, basking in the cosy warmth of post-coital bonding with the girlfriend, I asked her to list the things I do that annoy her...

Late last year, the Pope was preaching to the converted about how same-sex marriage threatens the sanctity of the family. He whinged that the (heterosexual) family had to be protected from evil old us, because “the family is the primary agent of peace in the world”...

LIVE FREE OR DIE

Geographically and by population, New Hampshire is one of the smallest of the United States of America. Politically, it is renowned internationally as host of the first presidential ‘primaries’, the state-wide party primary elections held every four years to determine the respective Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, as part of the nation’s rather convoluted and protracted democratic process...

A GR8 ’08

And we’re back… So here I am sitting in a room full of backpackers at 9am. I’d forgotten what the daily grind of work feels like. I was up at 7am and showered, walked the dogs, skipped breakfast then did the dash to the light rail. As I stood next to the seasoned workers I realised I was hopelessly underprepared for morning. Sunglasses would have been good and the iPod would have shut out the grunting and sweating around me...

TECHNO CHIC

A friend told me recently that she’d seen an article in a magazine that said in the next five years we would have achieved more technological advancements than in the past 1000 years. Holograms, virtual keyboards, virtual everything almost are on the not-so-distant horizon...