A few years ago I read a book by the iconic Australian author Helen Garner titled “House of Grief”. It dealt with the trial and conviction of a man named Robert Farquharson for the murder of his three young sons Jai (age 11), Bailey (age 7) and Tyler (age 3) on Fathers’ Day in 2005.
Troppo is looking a bit tired IMO. I designed the original site from a WordPress theme and I was pretty good at driving WP in those days. But it seems quite a lot more complicated these days, or maybe it’s just that I’m getting old and less mentally flexible.
Accordingly I am wondering whether any readers know of a good web designer whose doesn’t charge the earth and would also be willing to give me a couple of lessons so I can capably maintain the site from then on.
Over the past year or so I’ve read for the first time a bunch of research into the economics of mental health, along with a little on the early history of psychotherapy.
Mental health is, undeniably, a big problem in modern societies. (It may have been just as bad in earlier societies too, but the data is much worse.) If we could fix it, people would be happier, more capable and generally use more of their potential.
What’s struck me most?
Just a decade ago, Aus
William Hague has caught the bug for democratic lottery. And he writes about it well. This simple sentence is a nice little microcosm.
The biggest winner from the referendum on the weekend is John Stuart Mill.
There’s a strand of left-wing orthodoxy these days that deprecates free speech and brands opposing viewpoints as dangerous wrongthink. This firebrand mode of thinking is excellent at producing an engaged cabal of supporters, but its fruits will often face oblivion in the privacy of one’s own voting booth.
