the boy who could fly
I will draw your attention to this opinion piece in today’s SMH, by Nick Wood, NSW young labor’s left whipping boy, burgeoning Gouldian, frequenter of my favourite coffee shop (thanks for Googling Nick, yes we are faceless and we are watching you). I particularly enjoyed his recounting of the health minister’s homily on the perils of binge eating:
A “training school” run by NSW Young Labor last year, one of the Right’s annual recruitment events, featured the Health Minister, Reba Meagher. Neglecting to focus on policy issues, she… informed those attending of the need to pursue power above all else. She later regaled the new members with tales of the perpetually disgraced NSW minister Joe Tripodi vomiting from a car window after eating too many “twinkies”.
The image of a (presumably) young Joe Tripodi blearily wiping wind-blown chunks of vomit off his face with the back of his hand, straining out the back window of a cream-and-rust 1981 Honda Civic packed to groaning with guffawing pimply proto-hacks of the NSW right on the way home from a party function, is now with me forever. Bless.
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