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The Vole That Roared

November 18, 2018November 2, 2020 Ewen Shearer 463 Views

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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Land of the Wooden Ham

February 16, 2018November 2, 2020 Throsby 354 Views

Americans, aka “The USofA,” apparently earned their deserved reputation well over a century ago. The ‘rest of the world’ – themselves thieves extraordinaire – were already treating our American cousins with wary respect a petty

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Post Truth Teapot

January 9, 2017November 2, 2020 Throsby 348 Views

What’s this silliness of “memes” and “#hashtags” swirling through social media in ever decreasing circles? I’m older than most of you – well, all of you – and have seen myriad headlines and multitudinous news

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The World’s End Missed By All

September 10, 2008November 2, 2020 Throsby 118 Views

No-one noticed the end of the world yesterday. Earthly creatures skipped an atomic heartbeat in vague unease then, as if startled from a dream, resumed in tedium their virtual toils. At 9.28am GMT on September

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Companion Death

April 22, 2007 Ewen Shearer 104 Views

To Live is to Suffer Life is inevitably pain, sickness, death and decay. Everything is touched by the shadow of dissatisfaction, imperfection, disillusion. No one escapes. Sound familiar? Not just my pathetic publisher on a

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Drugs Link to Beached Whales

June 3, 2005 Ewen Shearer 109 Views

Dr. Richard Mobey, Director of Cetacean Pharmacology at the Institute of Cetacean Research, has scorned popular theories on whale beaching. He favours a radical concept of ‘metabolic biomagnification’ to explain sudden lapses in judgment leading

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God Moves the Goalposts

January 22, 2005 Ewen Shearer 96 Views

Faltering faith goads God – bountifulness blamed God (via a spokesbeing, of course), via an unprecedented communication to the peoples of Earth, presaged increased stringency upon a plenteous Earth in the approaching era. It is

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American Infidels

May 22, 2004 Ewen Shearer 95 Views

Family Research Council ‘Eye to Eye’ with Al Qaeda: "Americans Infidel" A hitherto unknown pioneering dotcom is at the center of a religious and political storm Groundbreaking software, designed to extract news from ‘"background noise

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Child Wrong

November 5, 2003 Ewen Shearer 107 Views

Cowering in the afterglow of nuclear fear, a child – progeny of Western scientific democracy in the most egalitarian of lands – keenly anticipated twenty-first century utopia. Youthful optimism believed one more lifespan (his own)

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Civilization

...defiles itself
Times past when warlords, priests and royalty hoarded luxury, life was a short grim struggle. Today most want for little yet still deny dignified survival to working poor, and ravage entire countries as collateral to our laissez faire fiesta.
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Australiana

Down Under

A Century of Imperialism

...hasn't dulled the urge boligan usa cracks worldAmerican foreign policy never a pretty sight, finesse of the mobile crane chase from Terminator 3. Export democracy? Cure worse than disease. double arrow Read more ..

Charity

~ its own reward Ad Council campaigns And what's going on in Land of the Free, Home of the Brave? As 40% of kids fail graduation the Iraqistan wars suck $2.4 trillion [CBO 2017 est]. Imagine this staggering sum applied to rebuilding The Great Society. Think of others. double arrow Where Charity Begins

This lazy unemployed

...crack-smoking welfare queen ran up U$15 trillion debt lazy homeless scumOdd how the ultra-wealthy gull even working poor to blame unemployed, disabled, weak, and vulnerable while but for the grace of God go all. If he's a welfare leech then your soul is with the sociopaths and predators who own Warshington and its minions, the Repugnicans and Dumfocrats, gutting a once noble nation that aspired to equality.

This elite will survive the US economic train wreck, land softly on 300 million plundered taxpayers, then from fortresses of luxury and privilege prey elsewhere for spoils. The dawn of civilization was greatly exaggerated.

Quote Me

"I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another. In a way I have nothing to say but a great deal to add."
~ Gore Vidal

"Rulers of state are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying." (Well, that explains the last 2500 years)
~ Plato

"By 'known unknowns' I was referring to the universe's dark matter.."
~ Donald Rumsfeld

"I have neither time nor inclination to communicate the fullness of my heart in speech, I am resolved to do it in writing, and to print myself out."
~ Joseph Addison

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Olio

Olio 

Olio

March 4, 2017 Ewen Shearer

The term ‘sheep overboard’ describes an ageless battle: a herd of naive humanity prey to pyschopathic kin. SheepOverboard the website expresses in essay that struggle reflected within. A vanity website for personal musing in public.

Olio 

Argue with us via email

January 15, 2017 Throsby
Olio 

Immortality ~ Not Fame

May 27, 2011 Ewen Shearer
Olio 

Testimonitals Forgettable

June 6, 2008 Ewen Shearer

Letters to Ed

Letters 

Price of Grog is Outrageous

October 23, 2018 media

Err, gidday. Oim hoping youse an yer readers can soign the petishun to end gummint taxin fun. The link is https://www.ldp.org.au/stoptaxingbooze Me an me mates are dedicated boozers an we think it stinks that our

Letters 

Not So Smart

October 5, 2018 media
Letters 

Misconstrued Snobs

August 28, 2018 media
Letters 

Quality Journalism

July 20, 2018 media

What the humans are saying

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