I was listening to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio current affairs program AM at the gym this morning. One of the stories featured Don Watson, former speech writer for Paul Keating, all-around word curmudgeon and enemy of ‘weasel-words’. He was being interviewed about the use of ‘tiresome management speak’. Interviewer Sabra Lane asked Watson for …
So I just had a bit of a look around the internet after some book-shop catalogue browsing. The situation with what could be called ‘Christian Lifestyle Media & Products’ continues to delve into more and more perplexing areas. (Water Bottles with ‘On Wings Like Eagles’ anyone?) Vitamin Z posts exerpts and comments on a blog …
Another one of the things they don’t teach in Bible College is that when you’re visiting folk and they start telling you that if their cat, Fluffy, won’t be in heaven then it just won’t be heaven that you MUST NOT CHANGE THE EXPRESSION ON YOUR FACE. Do not roll your eyes, sigh deeply, look …
Here at the Mount Gambier cemetery, right at the top of the driveway, stands a large wooden cross, standing three meters high, made of two posts bolted against each other. It is central, imposing, but it’s made of wood. It will not last forever. I wonder, because my mind wonders such things, that if the …
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