Speed cameras – everyone knows they’re just a shallow attempt to gouge money out of the poor, unsuspecting public, right? We should do away with them, as they serve no practical purpose and don’t really do anything, right? Actually, wrong. And here’s the theory of social contract, with a little grumbling of my own, to [...]
May, 2010
With a moon on my head and a heal in my hands
In World of Warcraft, I have a lovely druid named Telaru.
Smoke and Mirrors?
The Australian Federal Government has increased the tobacco excise by 25% (yay!) and is also legislating that cigarettes must be sold in new, “plain” packaging stripped of trademarks and pretty colours. The reasoning is that by making cigarettes more expensive, and less pretty, it will be less attractive for people to take it up. If [...]
