Given that every man, woman - and a range of what are obviously aliens - can write whatever they want to on the interblog, then, thought I , why not me.

I too can be opinionated and biassed. I may not approach the lofty peaks of self-satisfied bigotry of an Andrew Bolt or a Piers Ackerman but I can try...

Recently I have been feeling small and cowardly because I have seen what the people of Iran can do in the face of such outrageous oppression, when all I can do is yell insults at the television. Or not so much at the television itself, rather at the images of people I dislike that loom at me from my TV. Malcolm (Truffles) Turnbull, that paragon of integrity, implying that he knows how to deal with the global financial mess. Why? Well it's probably true, because he and his mates caused it in the first place. So they are the ones whose opinions are to be trusted?