Month: May 2017




You can’t handle strong, smart, beautiful black woman
Kara McCullough is a 25-year-old scientist from the District of Columbia who works for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She’s also black, and she’s just won the title of Miss …
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Donald Trump – the president the left deserves, and we all get
After crying wolf (or rather crying fascist) about every prominent right-wing politician for several generations, the left has finally got someone who comes closer to fitting all their stereotypes and …
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How unaffordable was my valley (or how green was my smashed avo)
I feel for the Gen Y and the Millennials, I really do. I know that I often mock them for all their bad traits and habits (my friends and readers …
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Malcolm in the Middle
Federal Budgets generally give the government of the day a poll bounce, even if only a momentary one. Some fall flat and register barely a twitch. The Turnbull/Morrison Budget for …
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Bulldozing the “liberators”
How do we remember the dead? How do we remember the war dead? How do we remember the controversial war dead? In Europe, history is never quite in the past …
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Let God kill them all AND sort them out
Some very concerning news from our neighbour up north, where the outgoing governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, commonly known as Ahok, was sentenced to two years in jail for …
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Triggser warning
The Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs has finally found freedom of speech she would like to defend – Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s. Being inexperienced in the area, Triggs of course …
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