Lost in Spades

Luggage is best stored, safely and securely, away from prying eyes and hearts of malcontent. All personal baggage should be handled in this way: it is the sole responsibility of the owner to see to it that arrangements have been made for such due and proper care and handling. Loosely stored and packaged arrangements are un-gamely, unsightly, and encourage indulgence and profligacy (as well as idle chatter). Please make sure personal items are safely stowed away in their rightful compartments, ensuring a safe flight for all. This can most readily be achieved by remaining seated, with your belt fastened at all times, so that no underpants are showing. Gentlemen should pull their slacks up to the hips, covering the strap (advertising banner or not) of the underwear. Ladies, leggings   are underwear: no part of any ungulate, be they odd- or even-toed, classifies as c...

Nice, wishful albeit, thought that the bloodletting ended: only a matter of time before there will be more, exactly because, we  reap that which we sow . Regardless of our 29th Prime Minister's bona fides, he too is now and forever destined to his just deserts . While many yearn for an Australian republic---to cut, finally, the purse-string from mother Britain---Mr Turnbull's adroit grab of the reigns means we may well get more than we bargained for. Three of our elected foremost leaders have now been forcibly removed from office, kicking and screaming, within a period not all of five years , as Australia looks to have, for all intents and purposes, fixed its eyes on a republic style of governance. But what these folk perhaps had not counted on was a republic fixed in the style of Rome. Where are all the haruspices ? Where, those trained in the art of reading the entrails? The entrails are laid bare on Par...