Its time - or goodbye
Filed in Politics, Friday, 30 November 2007, 3:33 pmWhilst all the commentary has pointed one way and noted the winner of the 2007 Commonwealth election, I have to add that it is about time. The election of the Rudd Labor (maybe one of their policies is to reinsert the u back into labor - putting you back into labour) is that this country [...]
Electioneering
Filed in Politics, Friday, 23 November 2007, 12:33 amSaturday, the day that doesn’t stop, but changes the nation. The three year cycle of electoral politics comes to a close. The campaigning, government advertising, rorts, cover-ups, lies, core and non-core promises, the never-ever GST, the decision about who can enter, the lack of the word sorry from the dictionary, a war for oil, the [...]
Change, mix and progress
Filed in Politics, Friday, 16 November 2007, 10:34 pmThis space will be a little quiet. The reason for this is that as summer beings to ramp up, one finds that attention to the computer wanes and those of the flesh space take up more concerns. Balmy nights when the sun stretches on for hours, beverages and humanity. As such the frenetic [...]
Election Comment
Filed in Aside, Politics, Friday, 9 November 2007, 12:44 amI am a bit of a political junky, however, this election campaign is so boring that I cannot be motivated to comment anything on it. Except for this - lets just hurry up have the election, a change of government and a hope that the progressive elements of the ALP can have an impact on [...]
Beginning Being and Time
Filed in Readings, , 12:41 amToday marked the commencement of the journey into Heidegger’s Being and Time, all references that will appear over the next coming months will be to the version listed below. Whilst it will be an interesting journey and will consume many posts that appear here as I work through the text to attempt to develop a [...]
Books and water
Filed in Random, Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 1:36 amWhilst never in the same category books and water do not mix. However, the events that have unfolded over the past week have circulated around books - or more so a specific book and water. Books first. Ordering Heidegger’s Being and Time trans. Stambaugh in order to tackle the first chapter has resulted in [...]
