Hello Rick, Trent and Russell I would not call Abbot an Arsehole, that is assigning him purpose and function, and I think he has no valid purpose or function. Tom Switzer has a program on Radio national, "Between The Lines", where he tries to think, but fails to think things through. He is one of John Howard's "Right Wing Phillip Adams", a delusion as Phillip Adams is a thoughtful intellectual who happens to sound "Left Wing". It is good to hear someone from the nominal "Right" trying to think, but I wish they would actually think things through. They accuse the "Left" of being ideological, when they are actually so ideological as to make the "Left" look pragmatic. On 3/23/18, Trent W. Buck via luv-talk <luv-talk@luv.asn.au> wrote:
Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
[Terry] also forwards Forteana.
For lurkers unfamiliar with this Americanism,
| Charles Fort (1874 – 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. | The terms Fortean and Forteana are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena.
As to what is anomalous in this day and age, there is so much out there that it is becoming a moot point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortean#Fortean_phenomena
cf. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_World_News)
Regards, Mark Trickett