On my way home from work today I listened to Triple J’s ‘Hack’ , and heard an interview with an American about survival schools and torture. The aim of the survival schools is to equip specialized troops to cope with torture by torturing them, thus reducing fear of the unknown. His comments on torture laws [...]
Archive for May, 2007
26 May
Aww… you poor thing.
The phrase “Aussie battler” is one that is deeply entrenched in the Australian psyche – it captures the struggles of life surviving and even flourishing against incredible odds, a fair enough picture of our early settlement history where the term originated. It is applied particularly to people slaving away at horrible jobs for next [...]
5 May
My Teppanyaki
This is my second ever post about food. Like the first, it is about Japanese cuisine. I have been in Bendigo for the the last few days, and on Tuesday night I went out for dinner to My Teppanyaki, a Japanese restaurant where all the food is cooked on a fiery hot plate in front [...]
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