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Dick's
Toolbox - December
2011
That was the year that will be.
I’d like to begin 2012 on a mildly upbeat note, but
I find myself unable to. Apparently the world is still more
or less in one piece but only just. Apart from saying that
there are far worse places than Australia to be at the moment
that’s about it. A large flat, arid plain of mediocrity
and listlessness seems to have enveloped this obscenely
over-populated planet as we gravitate from one crisis to
another, pausing only briefly to make things worse. Was
it ever thus?
Fortunately, there is alcohol and other substances of abuse
to take one’s mind off it until the next morning.
But it may not be enough to stem the general malaise which
will deepen until all memories of New Year, Christmas, and
their overly sanguine celebrations, are past.
Over four years ago when John Howard was dismissed by the
electorate in an.. read
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