Clementine Ford's Hypocracy

Apparently Clementine Ford is all upset because friends of Damien Little have called him a top bloke.  Granted, he committed a murder/suicide which by definition  precludes him from being a top bloke, but Ms Ford's reason for getting on her high horse on this issue it's an example of domestic violence by a privileged white man.  Melissa Little appears to reject this conclusion and only has words of love and regret for Damien.  Damien was clearly in a bad place where he could find nothing worth living for.

This is the real sin of the suicide; ingratitude.  Ingratitude for sunsets, flowers, children, wives, friends, life, everything.

Which all has me in agreement with Ms Ford.  Damien Little was not a top bloke at this point in his life.  He killed himself.  He killed his children.  But who is Ms Ford to talk?  She has gone on the record several times to publicize the fact that she has killed two of her own children because they were an inconvenience to her.  She rationalized this by pointing out that they were only the size of a tooth at the time and really just a bunch of cells; as are we all, Ms Ford.  As are we all.


Clearly Damien Little had fallen into despair at the time of his and his children's death.  Is that what happened to Ms Ford as well?  If so, you'd expect a little more sympathy.

Taking a Sickie

Tuesday, January 26 is Australia Day and a public holiday.  Consequently many are thinking of chucking a sickie to get an extra long weekend.  It is after all, only one day; real work doesn't begin until after Australia Day; everyone else is doing it.

Absenteeism costs $32.5 billion a year but that isn't really the reason why you shouldn't take a sickie.  The reason is it's wrong.  It is lying.  It is stealing.  It is fraudulent.  Taking one means that actually, you're not a good person.

Castro and the Pope: A match made in Heaven?

According to the Washington Post Cuban President Raul Castro considers Pope Francis so impressive that he may return to the Church.  This would be an impressive achievement by the Pontiff; the conversion of a godless heathen.  Castro's quote in the Post however is not so hopeful, "If the Pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the Church and I am not joking."  This suggests that it is the Pope's materialist leftist leanings that are impressing Castro rather than his preaching of the Ultimate Truth and Good News.

I hope to be proven wrong on this one and that the Pope indeed affects a conversion and repentance.

St Michael pray for us.

Gluten free art- everything that's wrong in the world.

So for all of those fearing that they'll be hit up by a Jimmy Kimmel vox pop this is gluten.  Gluten (from Latin gluten, "glue") is a protein composite found in wheat and related grains, including barley and rye. Gluten gives elasticity to dough, helping it rise and keep its shape and often gives the final product a chewy texture.  

It adds the yumminess to bread, pizza, pasta, beer.  Some people, and I feel sorry for them, cannot eat gluten or it makes them ill.  These people have coeliac disease.  There is a test for coeliac disease.  If you suspect that you have coeliac disease see your doctor and book a test. 

If you don't have coeliac disease then you're just being a look-at-me narcissist (and yes I know that's a tautology) and an illustration of everything that is wrong in the world today.  Just like this website.

Flat White Hipsterdom

Apparently the flat white is now the designator du jour of hipsterdom.  For perhaps the first time in my life I am cool.  My reason for drinking said drink is that I like milky coffee - not too frothy - and the flat white comes in a cup with a handle.

I think my time in the hip light will be short lived however; my preference for a flat white being of a long standing.  The hipsters however are a far more fickle lot.  I feel  sure that even as I write this  they have moved on to Blend 43 or to civet digested beans.  (I suggest blend 43 - it's cheaper and more retro).  A real hipster must always be ahead of the game.  I predict also the end of the hipster beard.  Everyone has one nowadays; even the men.

Which brings me to the irony of hipsterdom. In a bid to be more individual they have pasted themselves into a corner of what they can wear, where they can shop, where they have hair, which coffee they drink.  They are slaves to their own fashion. 

An Australasian Exhibition went to Antartica to answer questions on Climate Change and this is what they found.

Ice.  Lots and lots of ice.

Camille Paglia - still not pulling any punches

I've always had time for Camille Paglia despite disagreeing with her on a number of issues and Bari Weiss' interview with her in the Wall Street Journal confirms my opinion.  She may be nuts and occasionally contradictory but in the main her views on men, women and feminism are spot on. 

Basically she doesn't say anything that a normal person doesn't know instinctively to be true.  Men and women are different.  Education is being feminised. Women who dress publicly in a sexually provocative way are not taking care of their own safety.   Feminism has impugned the legitimate choice that many women would prefer, i.e. to stay at home with their own kids.  Abortion shouldn't be the central issue for feminists.

Camille argues that feminism should go back to basics.  Offering equal opportunity to women and the freedom to take those opportunities or not.  The fights we should be having are about rapes on Indian buses; honour killings and female genital mutilation.

All absolutely true however these are hard fights to have for they fly in the face of the current view that all cultures are equal.  It is difficult to come out and say honour killings are evil, dishonourable and wrong and any culture that condones such a thing is backward and evil.  Guess that's why the feminist establishment have been so deafeningly silent on these issues.  Much easier to cry "Mysogynist!" when a man wears a blue tie or looks at his watch or has a family or something.