Three Decades Down Under
Thirty years an Aussie. I’m celebrating today, not sure if Australia is. Does that now, in my advanced age, make me two thirds Australian and one third Polish? So twice …
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All onboard the Lolita Express
We are all equal in the eyes of law, but all too often rich scumbags have the resources and connections to make themselves less equal than others. “Miami Herald” has …
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Do you have your heresy app?
If you sometimes wonder what the Middle Ages would have been like if they magically acquired modern technology (here’s an alt-history concept for all you budding sci-fi writers), you can …
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Why do people migrate?
A thoughtful piece by “Dr Bastiat” at Rocochet titled “Western Civilisation: The Invisible Beautiful Miracle That We Ignore” comes to a conclusion that I think is only partly right: Immigrants …
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Caution: gay people crossing
First we’ve had skirts put on pedestrian crossing lights’ little people, because apparently, unlike children, some adults think that stick figures represent men only and not all human beings (until …
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The Genesis Event
A new, fascinating study suggests that all modern humans descend from an “Adam and Eve” couple who lived sometime between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago – but also that 90 …
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Your social credit card has been declined
I prefer to live in a country where I can rate my government and not the other way around – but many others don’t have that blessed choice: Millions of …
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Will America or Australia save Asia?
Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman whose death sentence for alleged blasphemy has been lifted by the Supreme Court, continues to be in danger, as the Pakistani Islamists are baying …
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Low CO2 killed the megafauna star
As with the present day fauna and flora extinctions, humans have been traditionally blamed for the extinction events over the past several tens of thousands of years. Maybe not so …
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Curbing the immigration to own to cons
Hillary Clinton – she’s got principles; and if you don’t like them, she’s got some others ones too: Europe must get a handle on immigration to combat a growing threat …
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Migration Compact – non-binding and unnecessary
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced his government won’t sign on to the United Nation’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The Labor opposition, which looks set …
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The nun who saved a Jewish hero
Last week, a 110-year old Dominican nun, Sister Cecilia Roszak, passed away in my home town of Krakow, in the same convent she first walked into almost 90 years before. …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World
Oh Germany, really? As the Russians say, “proverbs are the coins of the people” – and they should know, as both Tsarism and communism ensured the people didn’t have too …
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Buffy the Body Shamer
Honestly, what did the media used to do before the advent of social media? Where did they find the never-ending supply of material to use as a filler and click-bait? …
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The economics of the unicorn money
You could probably stop reading after the oxymoron “Bernie Sanders’ economic adviser”, but if you are as tolerant of differing viewpoints as TDC do read on: The radical idea of …
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Drain the swamp, lock her up, build the wall… and break them up
In case Donald Trump needs more of an agenda post-midterms, here’s a helpful suggestion from Glenn Reynolds: I’ve just finished reading Columbia Law professor Tim Wu’s new book on antitrust, …
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Bachelor in Paradise
Does he have enough roses for all the 72 virgins? Exclusive: Amir Millson seemed to have it all. Born in Perth to a white father and Malaysian mother, he was so …
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Everybody is kung fu fighting
A good summary of the state of play as at the end of the APEC meeting in PNG, from Paul Kelly: In a major bonus for the Morrison government, the …
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The strange attraction of communist brutalism
Last month “The New York Times Style Magazine” asked the question that no one has really been asking anywhere: “Can Poland’s Faded Brutalist Architecture Be Redeemed?” My short answer was …
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America has more witches than Presbyterians
Salem, we have a problem: A report in the Christian Post contends that the number of witches (and Wiccans) has dramatically increased since the 1990s, to the degree that there may be …
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