I know I’m likely to get flamed for this by people thinking I’m callous and don’t understand the seriousness of sexual assault. Whatever, you’ll just be sidestepping the whole issue if you do that. But the question does remain, when is it actually rape? In these musings, I’ll be referring to the woman as the [...]
I was discussing this topic with T the other day. Trust isn’t always a good thing. In fact, trust can be an excuse for sheer laziness and a means to try avoiding responsibility for your own actions. Don’t get me wrong, trust is a great thing. It’s very hard (and very unenjoyable) getting through life [...]
Welcome to 2007! Reflecting back on 2006, here are what I consider the major things that happened: we lost a planet (and I’m sorry, but until the day I die I will still say Pluto is a planet!) we lost a bucketload of iconic Australians Georgie-Boy and his little friend Johnny gave even more proof [...]
Ageing is possibly the cruelist trick in life. Because modern medicine keeps us alive far beyond our used-by dates, so when we do die it can often be seen almost as a blessing. On Friday T and I are going to the funeral of his grandmother, who died in the early hours of Monday morning.