The 2016 presidential election result was bad news for the Democrats, not just because they lost against the supposedly most beatable Republican candidate, but just as worryingly because the loss …
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Lot of folks on social media noted with astonishment that Donald Trump was elected on 9 November or 11/9 per the American notation. This was considered ominous, being the reverse …
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I don’t watch Channel 10’s “The Project”. Nothing personal; I generally don’t watch TV, and as of yesterday I have this completely inexplicable and irrational fear that I’ll start watching …
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It’s the end of the world, or maybe not. Tired with being unfairly saddled for years with stereotypes by the left’s non-gender specific young persons who cried wolf, the American …
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President Donald Trump. Repeat this slowly, as if Christopher Walken were an MC at a post-election party: President. Donald. Trump. The same way as: Drain. The. Swamp. There, there, you …
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7:08pm/4:08am: I will finish this liveblog with this thought: I did not support Trump (and I definitely did not support Hillary), so there is no surprise that I have great …
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You can call it Chrenkoff’s First Law of Politics: for every tinpot dick in the developing world there are always more than enough Western experts to excuse him as long …
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In the 1980s, the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs proposed a definition of an Indigenous Australian as a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent who identifies as Aboriginal …
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Sometime mid-last year, when the current election nightmare was just a sick and twisted dystopian fantasy that no one would have seriously believed then, I already thought that a dog …
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It must be my MONA visit last week, but this latest art extravaganza news has caught my attention: According to performance art duo Pony Express, we’ve fucked the biosphere. To …
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Some people hate Halloween because it’s American, but in truth it is the Christians who have a more legitimate gripe about this holiday than anti-American cultural snobs and nationalists. After …
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