Posted by Sigismund on October 25, 2008, at 18:47:36
In reply to Re: That's great » Sigismund, posted by Nadezda on October 25, 2008, at 17:29:03
You should see question time. The members of the government appear in parliament and field Dorothy Dixers and generally behave like high school debaters. For a generation people have been either uninterested in or embarrassed by this futile and childish behaviour. So I wondered what it's like in a system where the government is (hopefully) held to account in the legislature in an intelligent way with debates that have a minimum standard of ethics in argument.
But there are dental procedures that take 4 hours, and I'm going to have one soon.
This morning we took the dog for a walk on the beach and there were around 5 whales close into shore breaching and flapping their fins. The big ones were almost as big as a bus, and the smaller ones larger than a car. They may have been humpbacks on their way back to breed in the cold waters of Antarctica. Someone said that one of the calves had been hit by the propeller of a boat. It was quite wonderful anyway.
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