I'm not entirely sure where we've gone wrong with this country, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced that we have, in fact, screwed up quite badly. Now, Australia might be dry, but it was a relatively nice place when we got the joint--well, stole it really, but I don't think the Aboriginals mind much after the centuries of mass murders, violent frontier incidents, the Stolen Generations and the...

I'm going to be blunt: most of the people I count among my online friends aren't people I'd want to hang around in real life. They're people I talk to mainly because we both have accounts on the same site or something like that, and it's very rare that I think that I'd be friends with them if it wasn't for that context.By the same token, most of my interests outside of writing tend to be fairly...

I don't follow politics very closely. When I do, it's usually in the weeks or months leading up to an election, or it's after some really big thing has happened. However, I have noticed a thing or two during the times I have followed it.It's actually quite rare for someone to be violently fanatical about their political positions. Sure, they might go down with the ship supporting the politician of...

I'm bisexual. You know, that one where you're attracted to both men and women. Even though I'm twenty, I'm still not out to my parents or anyone I know, because I don't see my sexuality as being such a huge deal.Yeah, sure, I like sex, and I have to admit that without it, we're pretty much doomed as a species--well, without heterosexual sex, anyway, but I don't see it as the philosophical be all...

I've been an atheist since I was sixteen. As I write this blog entry, I'm now twenty. That means I've spent four years of my life as an atheist, which is just fine by me because I think atheism has provided me with a certain intellectual and creative freedom that I wouldn't have been able to get in the Christian faith I followed beforehand.Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Christians....