Saturday The smell of rot is in the air. European bank problems have become so bad that the media are actually covering it. There is usually a law of inverse proportion between the direness of the situation and the triviality of the media news. Maybe that is justified by the reality that the closer that the world approaches Armageddon, the more weirdly trivial the … [Read more...]
From Diggers to Degenerates
Saturday When the discovery of Australian gold was announced in 1851, the population was just over 400,000. By 1858, just eight short but eventful years later, the population had risen to over 1,000,000. It was the pursuit of gold that established Australia as an immigrant country on a par with the US, and began the process of changing it from a penal colony to a … [Read more...]