You know what they say? You have to just fill up the blank page with any old crap. A page of crap is easier to edit than a page of nothing.

If people are mentally ill it just shows that they can feel what's going on in the world.

People get tortured or they starve and you can rely on people to be indifferent to it. Until it starts happening to them.

Mr Rudd wants to make it an offence for politicians to lie. Great idea, but doesn't that outlaw politics?

Sunday I wanted to write something here but was incapacitated. You ever have one of those days where you haven't slept the night before and even the slightest thing just seems overwhelming, devastating? And so the guns fall silent for a while.

It's good to give up addictions. But what to do with all that empty space?

They say that a benevolent dictatorship is the best kind of government. But even the so-called democracies are not so benevolent any more.