Celebrate what we have 2, looking for comfort in ones own words

A friend of mine died suddenly last weekend. She was a confidant and supported me through challenging and difficult times. She had wisdom tempered by great humour; her smile was never a ’sticker,  one that was applied for the moment or superficial. Her smile, every time she smiled, held something deeper… hers was a ‘lived-in’ [...]

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Celebrate what we have – for what we don’t have, we can’t know

Ones life is a strange thing; it is experienced through shared culture and  by this,  many people, whether they know it or not, become intrinsic to ones life.
When someone who is near to us (personally, emotionally, culturally) dies, there is physical sensation in response to that news. The emotion of what this person meant to [...]

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The California Supreme Court guanantees a Prop 8 sequel

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Words from the United States’ declaration of independence, wonderful sentiments, a great creed for a nation to aspire to, a bar [...]

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If a right is denyable to some, is it revokable to others?

If the denial to gay and lesbian people of the right to marry is based upon a PERCEIVED threat to children – it must then stand to reason that those people who are ACTUALLY a threat to children, or who have who have been found GUILTY of ACTUAL child abuse, ought have their right to [...]

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Mother’s Day – do we need to be reminded to love?

It is again May, and the radio and television is full of Mother’s Day this and Mother’s Day that… “Buy this for your mother to show her you love her”…
Do people love their mothers, or are able to express love for their mother, only on the second Sunday in May?
My mother died when I was [...]

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Nuremburg is overturned when the ends justify the means

Obama says that he will not prosecute people who practised the actual hands-on torture (enhanced interogation techniques), arguing that those people were carrying out orders and committing acts that they were lead to believed were legal… They were ordered to do something they were told was legal at that time by their county’s powers that [...]

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Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, torture, misrepresentation, and Bill Clinton was impeached for WHAT?

In the US another report has been released dealing with an issue from the Bush administration. In this case, a report about the treatment of detainees in the so called war on terror, at places including Guantanamo Bay Cuba and  Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
I will not yet make comment on this report or the [...]

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Obama not looking back, like a hit-and-run driver

The Obama administration has just released memoranda from the Bush administation that detail techniques of enhanced interrogation imposed on prisoners of the war on terror, many of which are recognised as torture. On the surface (in my unqualified opinion) these memos could form the basis of either war crimes charges, or even simply charges within [...]

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What worth inalienable rights? What worth ANY rights? A note to Australians contemplating a bill of rights

In oral submissions in the case seeking to overturn Propoition 8 in California, Kenneth Starr, the chief lawyer defending Proposition 8, on Thursday said that the majority has the power to overturn any right it so chooses to, including that of free speech.
As reported by Reuters – Kenneth Starr… repeatedly told the court that a [...]

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Coming Out 1

Coming out is firstly about bestowing ownership of ourselves to ourselves.
During the American Civil War, the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This document lead to the [...]

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