Tuckerucci Fairytales

IN ANTICIPATION OF THE DAY WHEN JOHN HOWARD WILL SHUFFLE OFF THIS MORTAL COIL AND CLICHES AND PLATITUDES WILL RAIN DOWN LIKE AN APOCALYPSE This was written in March 2008. Nothing has happened since then to change my views on JWH. Johnny who? What a pathetic coward. John Howard waits until he’s out of the country before he makes any comment about current affairs in Australia, and when he does, (in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute in Washington on Thursday 6/3/08) he pretends that he wasn’t given the most humiliating thrashing any political leader in Australia, and possibly the world, has ever had. Howard slams the Rudd government for abandoning Work Choices as though it wasn’t the single most significant issue on which Labor won the 2007 election. Oh, and he makes no reference to the fact that the party he lead to utter ignominy abandoned every last link to Work Choices after being thrashed yet again by public opinion when Julie Bishop foreshadowed opposing the abolition of...

  Hey Lori, I said in my reply to your text message that I would get back to you about “Woke culture” which you mentioned at lunch last week. You asked what I think of the idea that you can’t call men, men any more or women, women .Trying to address that issue to the depth needed would have been too disruptive to the spirit of get-together that we were there for, so I didn’t even try. I just said that if anyone ever says that to you tell them to GF themselves; and I made a mental note to get back to you about it. The word Woke originated in African-American culture and was used for decades before a distorted version of it found its way into the broader American society, and from there to the rest of the (Western) world. In African-American language the word Woke means awareness of what keeps racism alive . That awareness is a critique of the sense of entitlement of many (or probably most) white Americans who are, but won’t admit to being, white supremacists . Entitlement assumes...