Don't give up on hope. Out and about Dandenong, I go to a male hairdresser in an arcade gallery off the Plaza. There are two which charge $10 for simple cuts. The big one I don't go to because the last time I went there the hairdresser serving me asked me about my weight while joking with his friends in what might have been arabic. The other hairdresser could be Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Afghan or some such. He is quieter and likes to play Indian/Pakistani dance music on a small tv for patrons. But today he was watching a clip on his phone of military dressed figures at a news conference. And it would have been no different had the figures talking on screen been Islamic State. He noticed me eyeing the smartphone, and he turned it off and shut the cabinet it was displayed in. Paradise Hairdresser. Luckily I wasn't wearing my "Mossad Tour" T shirt or my "Make America Great Again" cap. People do strange things for honour.

One rumour going around the internet is that JFK was erudite, smart, capable and visionary. JFK died in Nov 22nd 1963 when Lee Harvey Oswald shot him, and in response a secret service agent accidentally sent a dum dum round into JFK's head. The enormity of the cover up should be noted. At least one secret service agent ended his days a drunk. LHO was killed before facing justice, as was his killer, Jack Ruby. And the brain of JFK, filled with dum dum shrapnel disappeared during surgery. Anyway, the meme goes JFK was killed for a speech he gave about censorship and dangers facing democracy. Only the speech was not the last one JFK gave, but had been given in April 27th 1961. To put the speech in perspective, JFK had lost the 1960 election to Nixon, but Nixon, rather than doing what Al Gore did and threaten the union, conceded. Kennedy had approved the Bay of Pigs plan on April 4th. It was before a U2 plane took pictures of Soviet missiles on Cuba. Castro had lied to his backers about taking over Cuba to restore freedoms, but had aligned himself with communists (or revealed himself to be one) and so Kennedy was doing what the fox like Malcolm Turnbull does, putting his foot in his mouth. Kennedy proclaims and declares openness while planning secret deals, and the press gave him a free pass. Given an opportunity to illustrate his understanding of world affairs, JFK chooses Karl Marx. Kennedy did not write the words, which are good words, but we know he didn't mean them either. Kennedy may have threatened Governor Wallace over Wallace's racist stance to segregation, in private. In public, Wallace and Kennedy served the same party.

Dan Andrews has backflipped on another election promise not to start a safe injecting room. Safe injecting rooms do not save lives. Junkies have a large number of ways of killing themselves, and junkie deaths have not fallen with Sydney's safe injecting rooms, although there have been no recorded deaths inside one either over 15 years. But the one policy known to limit junkie deaths is strict policing. And Dan Andrews won't do that. So the feel good empty promise is the way Andrews is going. With a plan for locating it opposite a primary school. At least those kids can graduate in safety. My plan for such a room would be to locate them inside ALP member offices. It would do much to reduce waiting times.

In the US, Robert Mueller is desperate now he has been exposed as aiding Hillary Clinton in getting away with a Russia Uranium trade that did not favour the US but did the Clinton Foundation. So Mueller has made grandiose claims of a gotcha involving Trump's campaign manager Only, nothing wrong seems to have been discovered. The swamp is fighting as it drains.