Another ordinary week for Australia’s psyche – outpourings of emotion and innumerable inane discussions about a paroled convicted drug runner, whilst cultural genocide under the guise of assimilation progresses apace – and our government seems to have much in common with the Whig governments of Britain in the 1830’s as discussed in Man as Machine. Amongst the good news Ali Cobby Eckerman’s verse novel Ruby Moonlight is to be translated into Russian. Many of her poems have been translated into various Indian and Asian languages.
This is way to heavy so lets have a quote from a car sticker in the US
“You don’t have to believe everything you think”.
Last Monday’s post took us to a link that explored growing Income and Wealth inequality in the US. “The vast bulk of wealth creation (and wealth transfer) since the Global Financial Crisis has been to to already seriously wealthy.” And Ira Maine gives us little story about Father Ignatius and the Rabbi.
Ira Maine returned on Tuesday with another labyrinthian episode of Endette Hall in which “Nurse Birch, showered and in her flimsies is abed” for what that is worth. I’m hopeful pictures will surface in due course. For now just read it and use your imagination. Or send the pictures to me.
With the current push from Australia’s (re)Education Minister of rewriting History to his own imaginings Quentin Cockburn has produced a challenging story of Airfix, the British model making company, who have produced the “HMS Bismark” (sic)!! and swastika less World War Two German fighter planes. “You might as well go the full monty then, and replace Hitler with Dart Vader.” says Quentin. Read it here
And Quentin followed this up with more comments and a brief story of German fighter pilot Major Hans Ulrich Rudel.
Friday brought us Guy Rundle who wrote, “As (Australian Prime Minister) Abbott arsed around in the first weeks, his loyal retainers in the Murdoch press kept repeating, with diminishing degrees of conviction, “government by adults, government by adults” — even as most of the trouble seemed to come from Christopher Pyne, the one member of parliament who appears to be forever nine years old.”
Our Musical Dispatch this week took us to Mali, Africa and the home of Boubacar Traoré, the renowned singer, songwriter, and guitarist. This story concerns the eating of cats and French colonialism. Here
And to finish off a great week Andy White provided this poem: “saturday night’s alright for judith e. wrighting” from his anthology “Stolen Moments”
Good reading, join the conversation.
Cheers
Cecil Poole