January 27, 2016

Horse 2065 - Australia Day: A Day For All Australians?

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Yesterday, the Twenty-Sixth of January is the day that two nations celebrated their national day. India celebrated Republic Day which commem...
January 26, 2016

Horse 2064 - Let's Blow This Pop Stand Wide Open.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/nyregion/bloomberg-sensing-an-opening-revisits-a-potential-white-house-run.html?_r=0 Michael R. Bloomberg...
January 25, 2016

Horse 2063 - It's Bowlers Getting Belted In The Big Bash; Not Batsmen

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After watching the final of Big Bash League number 5 and the recent ODI series between Australia and India, I have pretty well come to the c...
January 23, 2016

Horse 2062 - The Complicated Story of Lady Liberty

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Standing on Liberty Island in the borough of Manhattan, New York, New York (so nice they named it twice), is the statue "La Liberté écl...
January 21, 2016

Horse 2061 - From Happy To Grumpy In Under 2

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On a scale of Seriously Uncool to DB-9 Sub Zero fridge, I have owned several Uncool cars and a few Cool cars. The most recent Cool car that ...
January 20, 2016

Horse 2060 - Blood on the Tracks

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Dear Opal Card, Presumably the New South Wales Minister for Transport, Andrew Constance, hates his job, hates buses, hates trains, hates f...
January 19, 2016

Horse 2059 - The Four Horse Race To The White House

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One of the fascinating things about the 2016 US Presidential race, is the way that candidates are defining themselves. Even if you ignore th...
January 17, 2016

Horse 2058 - Bull, Bear, Donkey, Elephant, Kangaroo? Emu?

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ATM  -0.16 2.22, BBQ  -2.11 46.98, PBJ  -0.09 1.13, SBD  -1.32 8.25, TLA  -2.20 9.31... If you've been watching the markets this ...
January 15, 2016

Horse 2057 - Ali Abbas Returns To The Scene Of The Incident

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It must be said that I like watching sport. I like watching, playing and analysing it to the point of stupidity. I like the statistics, the ...
January 13, 2016

Horse 2056 - The Book Is Better Than The Film. So What? The Book Doesn't Matter.

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At some point over the past 19 years that I've kept a blog, I imagine that I must have made the point that I think that in the vast majo...
January 08, 2016

Horse 2055 - How To Bring Down Kim Jong-Un

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With the news that North Korea has detonated an H-bomb and even had veteran news anchorwoman Ri Chun-hee come out of retirement just to make...
January 06, 2016

Horse 2054 - Klopp A Hiding To Nothing

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When Rafael Benitez was fired by Real Madrid this week, most of the football world went into cries of 'why?' because here was a mana...
January 05, 2016

Horse 2053 - Whitewash In Oregon

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What's the difference between an armed militia and a terrorist cel? The colour of your skin. Yet again demonstrating the utter stupidi...
January 01, 2016

Horse 2052 - First-Cause: A Sufficiently Good Enough Reason

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"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." - Genesis 1:1 ...pessimists will conclude that things have gone downh...
December 31, 2015

Horse 2051 - Kick This Mob Out

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http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/boxing-day-test-by-the-numbers-20151230-glwnis.html 177: The number of evictions across the first two ...
December 28, 2015

Horse 2050 - All Things Being Equal But Not Necessarily Equivalent

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What is three times five? This sounds like a pretty easy question to answer and you'd be absolutely correct if you said 'fifteen...
December 24, 2015

Horse 2049 - Now Towing Away The Past

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Perhaps this photograph isn't the best example of what I'm thinking but it's certainly illustrative. That car looks like a sm...
December 23, 2015

Horse 2048 - See The House That Did Move

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Ho ho ho; Merry Christmas. As you're busily running from place to place; looking for those last minute Christmas gifts and madly rackin...