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Everyone’s a Nazi – except you

March 21, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

One of the few out-of-the-closet entertainment industry conservatives, comedian Tim Allen, a few days ago on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” invoked fascism to describe the plight of right-wingers in Hollywood: “You …

Politics

Blessed are those who don’t give a s*** for they shall inherit the Earth

March 20, 2017March 20, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

On the pages of The Sydney Morning Herald (of course), an ANU climate scientist (of course), Sophie Lewis, agonises whether or not it is right for her – and more …

Happiness / Life

Beware of female trolls

March 20, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The science is settled: women tend to be more polite and nicer on the internet than men. Most trolls who engage in anti-social behaviour online – harassment, bullying, abuse – …

Politics

How to win friends and influence people, the Turkish edition

March 19, 2017March 20, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Contrary to the impression you might get from reading The Daily Chrenk, I don’t at all dislike Turkey or the Turkish people. In fact I have a historical soft spot …

Politics

Make them spend

March 19, 2017March 19, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

For a supposedly great communicator and negotiator, Trump has great problems with English language, distracting and detracting from the political points he is trying to make, which are often correct. …

Life

March 18, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

‘ZOO SUES PRODUCERS FOR “TRAUMATISING” RACCOON WITH AN “EROTIC VIDEO” SHOOT’ – This is quite possibly the best headline of the week. Employees at a petting zoo in Moscow are …

Politics

March 17, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PRIVATISING CRUSADES – Throughout the Middle East in particular, the last remaining Christian communities, which managed to survive there for almost two thousand years, are being exterminated or forced out …

Politics

March 17, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

NO FINGER IN THE DYKE – The current Dutch Prime Minister’s centre-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy will continue as the biggest party in the parliament, with Mark Rutte …

Politics

Get your government out of my engagement

March 16, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

If you visited this planet as a guest from outer space and quickly scanned Australian media and social media, you would probably get the idea that the question of same-sex …

Politics

March 15, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

TURKEY SLAPS EUROPE – Unhappy that “fascist” countries like Germany, Austria and the Netherlands won’t let him whip up the expat Turk enthusiasm for a Hitleresque power grab, President Erdogan …

Politics

March 15, 2017March 15, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

TOY SOUTH AUSTRALIA, BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED – Last year, Australia’s most mendicant state has discovered it’s hard to reliably power whatever economy it has got left with windmills. Last week, …

Life

March 15, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“HISTORICAL MEMORABILIA RELATED TO GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR WERE USED BY PARTICIPANTS IN SEXUAL ACTS” – This, quite possibly, is the best line to ever appear in any indictment. For the …

Culture / Politics

March 15, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FROM THE MOUTHS OF THE PORNSTARS – You don’t need to be a fan of Trump (I’m not) to appreciate a good comeback: I’m told that in porn industry this …

Politics

A voice crying in the Wildersness

March 15, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As you are reading this story, the Dutch people are voting in their much-anticipated – more so by the outside world than the Dutch people themselves – national election. Over …

Life / Politics

March 15, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE WAR THAT NEVER ENDS – All the senior figures have passed away over the years, only the rank and file, young at the time, might still be with us. …

Culture / Happiness / Life

Looking the dead in the eye

March 14, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Death ends, not just in a physiological sense, but also metaphysically. The dead are unreal; they remain only as symbols like monuments and tombs, …

Happiness / Life

March 14, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

ARE YOU NAUGHTY OR NICE? – The science says you’re not the best judge of that: If you give money to a homeless man or woman, does that make you …

Politics

March 14, 2017March 14, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SECEDE, TRY AGAIN – Scotland’s leader delivered a shock twist to Britain’s EU exit drama on Monday, announcing that she will seek authority to hold a …

Culture / Politics

March 12, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

CONSERVATIVES IN THE CLOSET – The LA Times reports on the precarious existence of a perennially endangered specie living in one of the world’s most hostile ecosystems: Hollywood conservatives. “In …

Politics

We are all Hitler

March 12, 2017March 12, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I never quite understood the promiscuous political enthusiasm of so many dual citizens in Australia and elsewhere. Politics in one country is usually dreadful enough; why would you choose to …