Isaac Asimov penned what have come to be known as the Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except...

I have had an account with eXTReMe Tracking for some time. This account allows me to survey the visitors to my web blog with various statistics such as where they were from and what they were searching for when they found my blog. The range of...

I have been reflecting in the last few of days on what it means to be a man. One might just as well ask what it means to be human in that the basic existential dilemmas of our existence are not a gender-specific affair. However - and in spite of...

I work in a supermarket. I am grateful that I have a job but I really do feel a little like this should not be a long-term career path for me. It is work, good honest work, but it is also really very boring and for the most part totally...

Well, most of the thinking public should be very well aware that war is a hell of a bad thing. In many ways it is the conglomeration of everything bad and evil that humanity is capable of. Unfortunately, war seems to be a necessary evil in so many...

The global economic downturn is hitting all of us in one way or another; we may find ourselves performing something less than our dream occupation to pay the bills and make ends meet. Having recently been temporarily employed in a socially...

Several days ago, a group of bikies travelling to Sydney began an altercation on a plane. Mobile phones were used to call reinforcements and by the time they arrived at Sydney Airport there were some 20 wild men ready to fight, as it turns out, to...

We are currently enduring a global financial crisis. A crisis, it must be said, borne largely on the wings of corruption, mismanagement, incompetence and greed. The psychological dimensions of such malevolent activity are strikingly obvious. I am...

“It’s coming around again the slowly creeping hand of time and it’s command...” So begins the lyrics of a song I have always enjoyed - “These Days” by the Australian band Powderfinger. The song (although not a...

I have a good friend who is from Zimbabwe. Whenever we talk about the country, her eyes seem to almost well up with tears and she so clearly misses the land of her birth, a land she describes as so beautiful, so bountiful. She will likely never...