The Vatican shoots itself in the foot, Again
Dear oh Dear. Just when the Catholic Church looked like it finally has a handle on paedophile priests it goes and shoots itself in the foot (or possibly higher). It started out well enough. The Church has decided to make it easier to remove abusers from the Priesthood Bishops become more accountable the statute of [...]
The world according to GOF
This whole pile of garbage is going to contain the epistles of a Grumpy Old Fart. Why anyone else than me should want to read it is totally beyond my comprehension. I have almost completed my 6th decade of life on earth, and I am becoming pissed off that someone previous to me suggested that [...]
Baby police on the prowl
Here is an item from New Scientist that really makes me wonder how far society thinks it can go in bossing around pregnant mothers. After doing some less than impressive data collection on drinking Mums, and known bad news about smoking and pregnancy, there seems to be a push towards policing the behaviour of pregnant [...]
Johnnie Howard’s war
Transcript for those with limited bandwidth. Gidday fellow VOXERS, I have always been impressed by xmangerm’s short video clips so I thought I should embrace the technology and have a crack at posting a video blog. Of course I’m not packing the latest tech like exman so you will have to put up [...]
Whatever happened to Toni Childs?
Music has always played an important part in my life. From an early age little GOF was provided with, often against his better judgement, a musical education on the pianoforte. Given his prodigious natural talent and commitment to excellence, it came as no surprise that, as a teenager, he achieved stellar heights of ineptitude and [...]
Naughty Friday funny – The woman in 302
A sweet grandmother telephoned St. Joseph ‘s Hospital. She timidly asked, "Is it possible to speak to someone who can tell me how a patient is doing?" The operator said, "I’ll be glad to help, dear. What’s the name and room number of the patient?" The grandmother in her weak, tremulous voice said, "Norma Findlay, [...]
Put a sock in it …… please
As a child of post-war Australia, I frequently witnessed much bigotry and intolerance …….especially related to foreigners, race or religion. I did not recognise it as such at the time, for as children we accept what we are told. Nevertheless, it has taken the remainder of a lifetime for me to recognise such misinformation from [...]
When is an Expert not an Expert?
Check out Potholer54’s latest contribution on Climate change. For those of you who don’t know him, Potholer54 is a scientist who deals with the deniers of Global Warming and chasing down the wacky contributions from bloggers armed mainly with the resources of FOX News. As you watch this clip you will see real scientists qualified [...]