This is my new tactic to not sound like too much of a whinger.
So first, I present three lovely things that I saw on the train this week, that made me love people.
1. An octogenarian reading a large print Harry Potter.
2. A man doing tai-chi alone, in the middle of a vacant lot, surrounded by early-morning mist.
3. An amazing piece of urban art, where lego-style men made from dozens of coloured milk crates scaled a large building between Victoria Park and Clifton Hill.
Now, three things that make me ashamed to be a human.
1. The Pentagon has decreed that all military in Iraq who blog must submit their posts to a superior officer for approval before posting. They've also banned YouTube, Myspace and a bunch of other sites. Their excuse is that their super-uber-mega-military computers are
being "slown down" by people watching stupid videos of cats playing the piano, and being exposed to viruses (I'm sorry, but if US military servers can be taken down with a virus you get from surfing MySpace, then Georgie, we have a fucking problem). Nothing at all to do with stopping stuff like this getting out. Oh, no.
2. This site. Just go there, and then hang your head in shame and take out the recycling.
3. That our government seems to think that the way to solve education problems in this country is to a) give more money to the schools who are already doing well, and b) give money to parents who have dumb kids.
Here's a conversation I expect will be happening in many an Aussie household if Our Illustrious Leader gets back into power:
Mum: Hi, kid. How'd you do in school this week?
Kid: Great, mum. I got an A.
Mum: You little shit. Couldn't you be a bit dumber? I could really use that $700.
Wow. That lowered the tone. Better have a cheezburger to cheer us all up.
Oh, alright. Just one more.
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2 comments:
Better stop reading to the children then. Sigh. And those photos are amazing. Horribly depressing. But amazing.
That second cheesy cat made me LOL. Twice.
I'd seen one of those image compositions from bad thing #2 before, and by itself it was odd and kinda cool... in context makes it vastly depressing, with a touch of - not awe, but I can't think of a better word.
As for bad thing #3 - grr, politics can shit me up the wall. Bloody Howard. And Rudd irritates me every now and then too (especially while I'm reading the feature article in the current Monthly). Although I am really truly hoping he follows Charles Firth's advice.
And I counter your cat pictures (icanhascheezburger is addictive) with a comic about said cat pictures.
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