In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party thing aimed at the British. He was an Austrian, writing in Britain. And I feel like now, I guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian - and, indeed, many conservative - ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. It shows itself in all sorts of little ways.

If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.