Axing Axe’s Axiom
Television’s Billions series’ transcript is technically complex and depicts a level of double-dealing well beyond my experience. It’s hard to pick when a line is for effect, or is how a real life goes down
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Author: Ewen Shearer
On Poisoning Hubby
The Husband Poisoner: Suburban women who killed in post-World War II Sydney. “Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members.” After World War
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Outside the Wire
War movies – by which I mean depictions of military adventures in the Middle East this century – are not my cup of tea. Like my parents and grandparents (whose experience of World War Two
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The Comey Rule
James Comey: Boy Scout or Partisan Hack? When Director Billy Ray bluntly told James Comey “Well, sir, you got him (Trump) elected,” while pitching him a mini-series The Comey Rule, it turned my mind to
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The Vole That Roared
En route from Navy Mess to Situation Room, Wilbur warned me to expect one unusual amid the gathering. Unusual how? A character seen mainly at night, in office or hallway, at to whom you might
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Suicide by Code
Such were the times, infatuated by the dream of artificial thought, few noticed their dominion ebb as the Age of Reason slid to an early grave. In those heady days when artificial intelligence first challenged
Read moreOn Swatting Magpies
Image by Michael Leunig During the past half century Australians have absorbed their legendry with the quaint fervour of tribal sports fans. A key pillar of this self-adoration is the mighty assertion that our animals
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Trojan’s Cusp
When Enterprise is Predator Insane forces erode jungles, stifle atmosphere, sterilize oceans, and greedily combat the species-potpourris nurturing them. Worming through neo-classical economics, seducing state and nation to plunder in consumptive frenzy the entire estate
Read moreThe Haircut That Ate Kew Trinity Grammar
Oh, down at the catching pen an old shearer stands, Grasping his shears in his long bony hands Click goes his shears; click, click, click. Wide are the blows, and his hand is moving quick
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Fake the 1969 Moon Landing?
An old friend reflected on his experience during the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing. He was employed by Australia’s Postmaster-General’s department (PMG) – you know it today as the privatised gouging entity, Telstra. In those
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