Pick Your Pride Last night my son and I attended the Pride Round. Which Pride Round? Well pick any sport these days. Pick every sport! Pride Rounds in 2024 are like belly-buttons – everybody’s got one. But as it happened, I booked tickets to Australia’s National Basketball League to watch the Perth Wildcats playing a […]
When Every Day is Christmas The best Pixar movie is The Incredibles (I’m not taking an online poll). And the best line from The Incredibles is: When everyone is super, no one will be. When the evil Syndrome utters that line, in light of his attempt to demythologise “the Supers” – whom he despises – […]
A story of Christmas past My mother remembers her early Christmases as a child in Dublin, and the deep abiding joy they brought her. A joy, that has to be said, did not come naturally, given the circumstances in her life. Conceived out of wedlock in a strict Belfast home, mum’s mum and dad married […]
From the World Or To The World? As 25 December nears, it’s hard to know where to find beauty and meaning, let alone any joy. Best in these circumstances, I often think, to look to the universe – the stars and the moon – for comfort. These words come from one of the most grindingly […]
But First A Light Interlude Ok it’s time for lists. If Spotify can do it so can I. Incidentally, my Spotify “most listened to musical act for 2023” was Byron Bay born, but Berlin based five piece outfit – Parcels. I was a 0.01% listener, which says that when I got down a rabbit hole […]
Pink Elephants You know the funny little trick: “Quick! Don’t think about pink elephants!” And suddenly, a herd of pachyderm of a particular colour palette are all that you can think about. Try as you might you cannot block them out, loud and incessant as they are with all of their florid trumpeting and vaguely […]
The Right Kinda Christian? Several years ago I was having dinner with my wife’s long-term university friends who had all studied psychology with her back in the day. Great bunch. They’d all met in their late teens in their first couple of weeks on campus, and here they were in their forties still meeting up, […]
This is a still picture from a video of a 77 year old former law professor gunning down two environmental activists who had blocked a road in Panama as a protest. A video is also available on Twitter. I won’t link that. Note the spent casing as it jumps from the gun. This is the […]
I wasn’t able to attend the 2023 Freedom For Faith conference recently. I did attend the 2022 version where I was one of the keynote speakers, whereupon I promptly got COVID (my first awful round) on the trip back. I was also scurrilously misquoted by The Financial Review, whose reporter made me out to be […]
Hi folks My podcast DeLorean Philosophy is back for a second season. It kicks off with a bang, an overview of the referendum here in Australia around The Voice. Check it out here:
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