Why I’m losing faith in Australian “Liberalism”, part 457
Two stories about the National Broadband Network in the media today. The one generating more outrage is the one singling out the most expensive connections […]
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Girls Gone Mild (But Funny*) On Brisbane Tinder
Tinder. It’s not all “Girls Gone Wild”, you know. Actually it’s hardly at all. Maybe 1 or 2 per cent of profiles, one in a […]
Continue reading »KILL THEM ALL AND LET GOD SORT OUT HIS OWN – Don’t want battle-trained jihadis coming back home to your country? No problem. The forces […]
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White Eagle over Raqqa
Earlier this week, after several months of heavy urban fighting, the capital of the ISIS caliphate, Raqqa, has been declared liberated by the Syrian opposition […]
Continue reading »ASTRONAUT? NO, AN ENTREPRENEUR! – Good news from Great Britain: Ask any young child what they want to be when they grow older and you’ll […]
Continue reading »RENT-SEEKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT TAXPAYERS’ MONEY – Can Australia be made more like the United States, more than […]
Continue reading »GOOD NEWS FROM VENEZUELA – SOCIALISM WORKS… – …as well as it does everywhere else and every time. I.e. it doesn’t. Food inequality? But isn’t […]
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Dear Jong
North Korean parliamentarians (I’ll give you a moment to chuckle at that concept), or more precisely, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the DPRK Supreme People’s […]
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If ISIS falls in a desert, and Obama is not the President, does anyone hear about it?
Raqqa, the “capital” of the ISIS caliphate straddling Syria and Iraq, has fallen. The rolling back of the Islamic State, a terrorist organisation which over […]
Continue reading »SCREWING THE KURDS – My spell-checker must be Shia because it suggests I correct KURDS to TURDS. Make that Shiite. And they are rejoicing: Ali […]
Continue reading »PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN AND PORN IN RAQQA – Things you find on a laptop belonging to a Belgian-Moroccan ISIS bride in Syria: Some nights […]
Continue reading »OUR POOR BACKWARD AUSTRALIA – One of the country’s most successful IT entrepreneurs has said Australia is increasingly seen as a “disappointment” overseas and at […]
Continue reading »THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING JIMMY KIMMEL – Who needs an audience if you can be right? “Three years ago, I was equally liked by […]
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Weinstein’s the problem? Mohammed is the answer
Not “The Onion” but “Independent”, though it’s increasingly difficult to spot the difference: If the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse revelations shocked you, then you’re dangerously ignorant to […]
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The Best Wo/Man For The Job
It’s time to quit complaining about the supposedly terrible state of politics in Australia. If the perfect market is achieved through the most efficient utilisation […]
Continue reading »HOW TINDER IS CHANGING SOCIETY – A fascinating read about what seems like a fascinating study about a fascinating topic. How is Tinder changing society? […]
Continue reading »NOW THEY CAN CLAIM SWEDEN AS THEIR OWN – What was once a part of the House of Islam has to return to the House […]
Continue reading »HOW PERVY WAS MY VALLEY – Or Hollywood in two tweets: .@TheOliverStone on Harvey Weinstein: 'It's not easy what he's going through either' https://t.co/MMiuOkLHKK pic.twitter.com/hyng8ydhUg […]
Continue reading »THE IDIOTIC OP-ED OF THE DAY – What can I say, “The New York Times” does it again: If Ben Shapiro wanted to be genuinely […]
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Unhol(l)ywood
“Toxic masculinity” – it’s often in the last place you look. The mirror. I’m still not sure what’s more ridiculous about the Harvey Weinstein saga: […]
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