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Random Note — “just sayin’ or “just putting it out there”.

Random Note — “just sayin’ or “just putting it out there”.

To remove themselves from the end result, many of the main players and academics in public discourse resort to the language of, “𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧’ 𝐨𝐫 “𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞”. By framing their statement or question as an “innocent” thought bubble, what they’re...

Random Memo — Prime Minister Houso

𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐢𝐫, 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐲, 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚. It’s in the Australian tradition of mateship and our basic equality no matter your station in life that since the early years of the...

Random Note — 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 ~~ 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑒

Thinking again about the events of Sunday and I’m reminded once more of the truth behind the Leon Trotsky observation that: “𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬/𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬/𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮” We may not care about either, but events will be...