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March 12, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE WISDOM OF DILBERT – If you haven’t been reading Scott Adams’ blog, do yourself favour and become a regular. For quite some time now, the creator of Dilbert has …

Politics

March 10, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FINE YOUNG CANNIBAL – Everyone’s favourite Islam populariser Reza Aslan goes where CNN has not gone before: Religious scholar and television host Reza Aslan is facing backlash after he ate …

Politics

For God and Empire 2.0

March 10, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Why argue about a policy on its merits when instead you can call it emotive names and thus shut down the discussion? The latest example from the Anglosphere: Australian Trade …

Politics

March 10, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE POPE AND HIS DIVISIONS – This could become a regular Daily Chrenk feature if it wasn’t so tedious: Pope Francis has warned in an interview with a German newspaper …

Love

Boys Gone Wild on Tinder

March 10, 2017August 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I know that the International Women’s Day has just passed, but please accept this post as a belated present. When publishing the previous three instalments of “Girls Gone Wild on …

Politics

Never trust anyone under 30

March 9, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

When they were singing about the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, they didn’t mean the time of endless leaks. But that’s what they’re getting. Yesterday, following the “Vault 7” …

Happiness / Life

March 9, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

MORE HOT PRIVILEGE – A few days ago I riled against the hot female privilege. Today, another example of the hotness privilege of the “1 Pretty %”: Tinder has been …

Politics

March 9, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

STRAIGHT OUTTA MOSUL – The Calirat is deserting his sinking Caliphate: US and Iraqi officials believe the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left operational commanders behind …

Politics

Vault 7 and the death of privacy

March 8, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I’m neither an IT expert nor an intelligence insider (twelve years ago when I was publishing the “Good News from Iraq” series, some kind souls suggested I was on the …

Politics

Yes media, there were reds under the bed

March 7, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In another fake outrage story and anti-Trump hyperventilation, CNN has come across a recording of an interview by Steve Bannon with a journalist and an author Diane West, where the …

Politics

Happy International Women’s Day!

March 7, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

My late mother really lucked out in life, not just because a negligently undiagnosed cancer took her at the way-too-young-for-this-day-and-age age of 63, but also because she always missed out …

Politics

March 6, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IT’S CALLED PROJECTION, MR PRESIDENT – Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan is redefining fascism one (someone else’s) action at a time: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has accused Germany of “fascist actions” reminiscent …

Politics

March 6, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IS THERE ANYTHING HE CAN’T DO? – Donald Trump is becoming, like climate change, a catch-all scapegoat for everything under the sun. He can make you lose weight: “Donald Trump …

Politics

March 6, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PAULINE HEARTS VLAD – What is it with the Neo-Populists around the world and their love affair with Vladimir “Ras” Putin? Pauline Hanson joins the conga line of suckholes: During …

Politics

March 5, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IS THE POPE CATHOLIC? – I don’t know, but he’s definitely a socialist. The whole world is topsy turvy; the bear probably doesn’t shit in the wood either any more. …

Politics

Why people hate media

March 5, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

What did I miss when my blog was offline with technical issues? (It might have been Obama. He bugged me. The whole eight years he was in office.) It strikes …

Culture / Happiness / Life

Check your hot female privilege

March 3, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Forget white privilege. Or male privilege. Or white male privilege, which presumably trumps them all (no pun intended), including black male privilege and white female privilege. We need to talk …

Politics

March 1, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE WORLD GONE CRAZY – In her 35 years as a therapist, Arlene Drake has never heard so many clients talking about the same issue. Week after week, they complain of panic attacks and insomnia …

Life

March 1, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

OFFLINE – Apologies for four days of blog silence. No, I did not give up blogging for Lent. Following the hacking of The Daily Chrenk last year and changing the …