It was a good idea that never moved to serious consideration but it deserves much more than a thought bubble.

That viaduct is the entrance to Lithgow’s busiest sport and recreation precinct and has enormous potential as a welcoming portal for thousands of visitors each year.

Quite a milestone will be reached in Lithgow sport next year – 60 years since the Workies footy side entered the fray in Group 10.

The club emerged from the ashes of the old State Mine side.

Workies reached the grand final in that debut year; it would be nice to go one better six decades later.

American politics tends to throw up, well, ‘unusual’ candidates that sometimes make the election campaigns resembling a comedy routine.

During what can at times seem like a very drawn out campaign, candidates have more than the average amount of opportunities for embarrassing gaffes, pubic speaking mishaps and skeletons emerging from closets.

But no one’s laughing.

This time around the scariest aspect is not the prospect of the Donald with his finger on the Armageddon button but the number of Yanks who still see him as a messiah.

No one cares anymore, just let the gays and lesbians marry. We're tired, you're tired, everyone is tired of having to discuss the same thing over and over again.

There's no point spending nearly $200 million dollars on an opinion poll when we have hundreds of opinion polls already confirming the majority would either allow same-sex marriage or do not care who does what.

How funny it is that just a few years ago the country was in a “budget emergency”...