You are what you eat

It’s not hard to understand Howard and Abbott resisting calls to regulate junk food advertising to children. A far more important principle than childhood obesity is at stake here – the right of junk food manufacturers and their advertising agencies to make a profit, even if it means a long term cost the nation.

As Abbott argues, it’s the responsibility of parents to control their children’s eating habits. Applying the same argument it might be profitable to advertise alcohol, tobacco and sex-services during children’s television programs. After all, it’s the parents who are to blame for their children making bad choices.

Interest Rate Hikes

Anyone old enough to remember when an interest rate ‘hike’ was to an interest rate rise as a bushwalk was to a stroll to the corner store?

It seems that in the push to make all news sensational, even the smallest of increases is now routinely called a hike.

When every little thing is spun to the max we lose all subtlety, nuance and sense of proportion in a quagmire of misinformation and propaganda. We need a ‘war on PR’.

New High & Lonesome web site

I've been absent from these here parts for some time whiling away my 'spare' time learning the technology behind content managed web sites. What better way than to revamp the band's web site? It's finally up and running.

Drop in and have a look at http://www.highandlonesome.com