Milestones of Death

It seems the dead in Syria now outnumber the number of dead the USA (or the UK) had during the whole of the Second World War.

Greater than 400,000.


That's a milestone, eh?  Will there be celebrations?

Where next?

And all this, remember,  in the course of illegal occupation of the country, illegal attack on the country.

Isn't it time that Australia got up in the UN and protested illegal attacks upon a sovereign state - seeing as the narrative is always so loaded with high principled attacks on transgressions of international norms, UN policy, etc.?

Or are we fully in accord with it all?

I think I jest. I vaguely believe we've frequently pronounced we're fully in accord with it all.  I can easily, too sickeningly easily, imagine such as Bishop or Dutton saying it..

In which case shouldn't our school curriculum have courses on the need and utility of duplicity and hypocrisy?  From primary school onward?

Ratty Hair Chic

Ah..

I now find that the 'ratty hair' of the women in the French drama I've been watching is quite deliberate.  It is their fashion, their style.

Fancy that.