Bearsy

How cute is this?

Click to read the story — "Seba" - a red panda cub born at Taronga Zoo

You can also watch a video of this cute little chum.

At least CA got one thing right …

Choosing Shane Watson as Michael Clarke’s deputy, and therefore anointing him as Australia’s future Captain-in-waiting, will be popular with almost everybody down under. He can bat (usually), he can bowl (most of the time), and he’s a nice guy – which is very important.

He’s a straight Aussie bloke from Queensland without tats, without a flashy celebrity girl-friend (though his current lady is nice enough), and without megabuck advertising contracts for poofy or weirdo products. When he had some spare time recently he visited his family and friends in his home town of Ipswich, which had suffered greatly from flooding, and lent a hand rather than driving expensive sports cars and getting pissed.

I will concede that there are other promising young cricketers who might be considered as future captains – Tim Paine for example – but at the moment they are not in the team. One reason for this is that two places are still occupied by Clarke and Ponting, neither of whom deserve a place on current performance, recent century notwithstanding.

Australia’s renewal will not begin until Ponting is finally put out to grass and Clarke stops being a sissy.

A Latin lesson for the sick Wolf

Janus was absolutely right to point out that I had made the most elementary mistake by neglecting to render ‘law’ in the correct accusative case (making it the ‘object’, in English grammar) , and I immediately corrected it to ‘legem’. However, it then struck me that it would be better classical Latin to express the statement in the passive voice – “The Law of the Iceni is honoured here” – so I changed it to the current version.

O Zangado objected, makings the following assertion –

Observatur isn’t even in the dictionary, and Janus is right about the accusative (lex, legis, f, 4th declension).

and then later compounds his folly by saying –

I just KNEW there was no -ur ending in Latin

Poor chap. The wolf flu must be confusing his grey matter. Continue reading “A Latin lesson for the sick Wolf”

A quick cricketing link

Before Boadicea and I leave for the evening’s festivities, here’s a quick link to an article on Punter.

You may notice a couple of comments from some guy called “Bearsy of Brisbane”. I wonder who that is? 😎

The Selectors must wake up

Cuprum has informed me privately that he misses my posts about cricket. So, apologies to Ferret and the rest of you that find such subjects boring, but you are under no obligation to read it.

See, I’ve inserted a “More” tag right here, so that you aren’t even offended by a picture. Continue reading “The Selectors must wake up”

With respectful acknowledgements to Hilaire Belloc

This article is a joint effort, has Boadicea’s imprimatur and reflects Chariot Editorial Policy.

Continue reading “With respectful acknowledgements to Hilaire Belloc”

Praise where praise is due

I know we don’t talk about the Dark Side here, but you could have knocked me down with a feather!

The other day I posted there to tell Kate Day about a significant bug in the Disqus routines. Today, to my great surprise, she came back to tell me that Disqus had found the fault and issued a fix; she added her thanks.

Wonders will never cease! 😆

I wonder if the fix will actually work?
Later: I checked – it does, but it also introduces further faults. Doh! I’ve e-mailed Kate. 😕

No comment necessary

Straight look at a gay world — From The Australian

I was impressed – well, it makes a change!

On Monday arvo, as I vigorously strode my daily anti-diabetic penance – well, no … as I strolled idly around my occasional gentle walk – well, possibly somewhere between the two, a flash of lightning pierced my left eye. And again. In fact every time I looked left and then right, the same flash of light shot around the left hand edge of my field of view. Disconcerting, to say the least. Continue reading “I was impressed – well, it makes a change!”

Our Australian Prime Minister is a Liar

We have our very own Tony Blair.

Julia Gillard said before the election, on TV (video clip here), in words of one syllable, that her future government would not introduce a carbon tax. In the last few days, she has introduced a carbon tax. Worse than this, she is entirely unrepentant about doing what she said she wouldn’t, and she further claims that “the Australian people support her”. Which, naturally, they don’t. Continue reading “Our Australian Prime Minister is a Liar”