Oh, John - so good! You know I've spent the past week entering into a computer file a lot of nowhere-near-as-good-as-your-writing letters written to politicians (mostly) and certainly impolite (mostly) on both sides of the political coin between 1996 and 2012 - sent from Japan (mostly) via postcard - so not quite to your genius-level cre…
Oh, John - so good! You know I've spent the past week entering into a computer file a lot of nowhere-near-as-good-as-your-writing letters written to politicians (mostly) and certainly impolite (mostly) on both sides of the political coin between 1996 and 2012 - sent from Japan (mostly) via postcard - so not quite to your genius-level creations - but satisfying (mostly) in proving that my understanding was actually far more accurate than political think-tanks and the narrowed and ugly thinking of (most) of those I wrote to. I came across the file of kept/copies correspondence a week back - and thought - cripes (now there's a good word needs resurrecting) my political antennae have been pretty much on the ball from the John "Dubya" Howard days onwards! Lovely to have your modus operandi made plain! Merry festivities! Jim
Karletta: I have a friend living over 40 years in Greece. Australian. Has a brother and a son living in Australia. Two sons in Greece. Politically aware - very aware. We share thoughts/articles/links. We are of an age - the friend has five years on me (72). We are not focussed only on Australia - but far more generally - US-watchers - of course - and the whole EU/Russia/China/US-confected flashpoints. Covid and war-mongering - WMD sales/Dutton-Pezzullo - Pentecultism/Opus Dei - why are so many politicians of extremist religious perspectives? Etc. The Environment, First Nations issues, asylum-seeker tragedies - self-serving politicians - spare me/us/our country/the world! And John always takes a tack beneath his stunning word-crafting which punctures those pomposities of the political class - and reassures me - along with other readers of Alien Boobside (genuine - oops) Sideboob - that I/we ARE NOT ALONE in being able to see clearly. I have a mate in Japan who is a clear seeing man (clairvoyant)! Although I have NEVER sought his advice on MY behalf - I might stretch it for the world's sake! Jim
Oh, John - so good! You know I've spent the past week entering into a computer file a lot of nowhere-near-as-good-as-your-writing letters written to politicians (mostly) and certainly impolite (mostly) on both sides of the political coin between 1996 and 2012 - sent from Japan (mostly) via postcard - so not quite to your genius-level creations - but satisfying (mostly) in proving that my understanding was actually far more accurate than political think-tanks and the narrowed and ugly thinking of (most) of those I wrote to. I came across the file of kept/copies correspondence a week back - and thought - cripes (now there's a good word needs resurrecting) my political antennae have been pretty much on the ball from the John "Dubya" Howard days onwards! Lovely to have your modus operandi made plain! Merry festivities! Jim
Karletta: I have a friend living over 40 years in Greece. Australian. Has a brother and a son living in Australia. Two sons in Greece. Politically aware - very aware. We share thoughts/articles/links. We are of an age - the friend has five years on me (72). We are not focussed only on Australia - but far more generally - US-watchers - of course - and the whole EU/Russia/China/US-confected flashpoints. Covid and war-mongering - WMD sales/Dutton-Pezzullo - Pentecultism/Opus Dei - why are so many politicians of extremist religious perspectives? Etc. The Environment, First Nations issues, asylum-seeker tragedies - self-serving politicians - spare me/us/our country/the world! And John always takes a tack beneath his stunning word-crafting which punctures those pomposities of the political class - and reassures me - along with other readers of Alien Boobside (genuine - oops) Sideboob - that I/we ARE NOT ALONE in being able to see clearly. I have a mate in Japan who is a clear seeing man (clairvoyant)! Although I have NEVER sought his advice on MY behalf - I might stretch it for the world's sake! Jim
Karletta - The Scrum - especially Patrick LAWRENCE!