Bruce Llama

[SOURCE] Here’s a nice idea.  Charge people scarcity pricing for water.  That means if there’s not much water about, then you get charged more for its use.  The National Water Commission thinks that would be better than just trying to restrict water through water restrictions.  I think it means that those that can least afford [...]

[SOURCE] and [SOURCE] Two reports caught this Llama’s eye today as I scanned the Sunday paper online (Why do I still call it a paper?  Perhaps from now on it should be known as a online news site) Some clever doctors have worked out a way to help reduce the pain of giving birth for [...]

Look, I profess to not understand how the US system works.  As an outsider I have a small interest.  Their version of democracy seems odd to me, but that’s ok, outsiders say the same about our system. What drives me mad, however, is the Australian media’s continual reporting of the “Presidential Race”  Why would I, [...]

Justin Fair (what a lovely name) left me a comment on one of my WYD08 blogs, and I thought it worthy enough for a blog of its own, but only because when I saw the comment, I thought some religious nutter had been on my site.  Those guys scare me.  When when I clicked through [...]

On the TV.  In Sydney, down by the water.  They gathered in their thousands to watch.  It was probably one of the most disgusting things I’d ever seen.  They dragged this guy up on a cross and he took a bloody long time to die.  The pilgrims where beside themselves watching this stuff. What a [...]

No, really it is. The world is sex crazy. The catholics are in trouble because of how they handle sexual abuse in Australia.[SOURCE] The Malyasians are in strife as they arrest someone for ‘sodomy’ who says sodomy any more. [SOURCE] The Africans don’t want to use condoms as the cardinal thinks they don’t help. [SOURCE] [...]

I got my monthly bank statement today.  I see that withdrawing from an ATM other than one of my banks now costs me $2.00 – a rise of 50 cents.  No doubt I got a piece of paper telling me just that. Of course, banks are in the business of making money.  I really hate [...]

I’m delighted to see that the court has struck down the “don’t annoy the catholics” law. What a stupid law, fining someone because someone else finds them annoying.  Congrats to the NoToPope coalition. [SOURCE}

The bloody Pope is in town.  Well Sydney. The media is full of it.  The Sunday Herald-Sun even had a pin up of the man in the centre pages. He’s going to say sorry, apparently.  Sorry for all the angst caused to sexual abused boys and girls at the hands of his work force.  I [...]

This poor Llama resides in Melbourne.  I had rather hoped that World Youth Day would pass me by and the sense of outrage I feel would abate.  Alas, when I flung open the local newspaper (its the only real paper I get now days – I do all my news reading on line) I was [...]