Author Archives: bloggard

It’s hard to speak your mind because you don’t want to hurt anyone. That’s the main thing, I find. Don’t want to hurt oneself either, of course, but that’s not very likely in a halfway reasonable society like ours. But … Continue reading →

I was feeling really down.  Sick.  Sad. Depressed. Because my child just doesn’t want to do anything.  Nothing.  Not a thing. Except play computer games. But nothing else.  Then gets in trouble in school and gets suspended.  So he’s home … Continue reading →

I think this interview with Noam Chomsky is very good, very important, very informative. Particularly to me was his assessment of why the USA constantly demonises Iran.   It is always a mystery to me why America hates Russia and Iran … Continue reading →

The whole globe seems to be backing America and it’s Trump – ordered missile strike against an Syrian airfield. A strike totally against international law. A contravention of international law that the USA frequently in the past has screamed about. … Continue reading →

My child is being accused of being racist. He’s too young and of such a nature that he’s incapable of being racist. They say he called a black boy ‘black’.  Called him ‘ A black something’  – they don’t know … Continue reading →

Well that was a long time ago, wasn’t it?  We’re into the end game now. We’ve all learned a lot in the interim.  Unless we didn’t want to learn. One of the things we ought to have learned is that … Continue reading →

Why don’t we get Saudi Arabia to deny Daesh terrorists access to Mecca? As one of the five pillars of Islam every able bodied Muslim is obliged to make the pilgrimage at least once in his life. Deny them this. … Continue reading →

Our civilisation is in desperate peril and the reason is the lack of capitalised proper nouns. Of a certain kind:  Truth. Honesty. Courage. Fortitude. Integrity. Probity. Wisdom. Justice. Temperance. Mercy. and on and on… In the past they would be … Continue reading →

We probably desperately need some Aboriginal Culture everywhere in the Western World.  Australia, USA, UK, Europe, everywhere.. But what chance of getting any? None.  Why? Because those who pretend to be supporters of Aboriginal Culture are the very ones busiest … Continue reading →