The Age of Conspiracy Theories?
Had dinner with friends a few nights back and during the extended wine soak that followed, conversation got on to one of my TV unmissables, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. For the uninitiated, each episode of RKN features foul-mouthed and tempered UK celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay troubleshooting a struggling restaurant and seeking to turn business around inside a week.
Recalling some of Ramsay’s spec…
The Hotbeetees Awards for 2007
Inaugural and haphazard, these Hotbeetees International Awards for 2007 are disorganised, ill conceived and pretty bloody random. There’s an Australian bias, I have to confess (a function of my place of residence).
These Awards derive from a larger list that feature many items that would not mean much to folk who do are not Australian. If you are interested in viewing the full list of Awards, the…
The Unpalatable Fruits of Americacentricity
Before I begin, let’s be REAL positive and assume that oil is not the major factor behind the US Iraq campaign. Let’s also dismiss the charges that Bush had a personal agenda to finish what Daddy started and “get” Saddam. Let’s disengage from the very concept of spin and indulge ourselves with the idea that America’s mission in Iraq really was, and is, a noble …