GUAM VERSUS CLIMATE CHANGE – A pretty silly, but inevitable, tweet from The New York Times: What’s a greater threat to Guam? North Korea, or […]
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LET’S HOPE THERE IS NO RESURRECTION – In the olden days this would be considered blasphemy: Hillary Clinton’s pastoral adviser urged her to keep her […]
Continue reading »CULTURAL APPROPRIATION IN POLAND – This is quite beautiful in a way: Make-believe Jewish weddings — a regular educational event in Spain and Portugal, where […]
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Every mushroom cloud has a silver lining
Everything old is new again. Thanks to Kim (Jong Un, not Kardashian for a change), the millennials can now experience what it is like to […]
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No results found for “diversity of opinion”
A Google engineer writes a 10-page memo, which in large part complains that Google is an ideological echo chamber, which is hostile to those like […]
Continue reading »THE LEFT EATS THEIR OWN – Clearly it’s not the thought that counts – it doesn’t matter that you support us if you support us […]
Continue reading »YASSMIN STILL DOES NOT GET IT – Freedom of speech is a foreign land. A very foreign land: Andrew Bolt, are you up to the […]
Continue reading »THE MAN CALLED CAR SEAT – A few weeks ago, some idiots from an anti-immigration group in Norway mistook bus seats for women dressed in burqas. […]
Continue reading »THAT RAINBOW SWASTIKA T-SHIRT REALLY SUITS YOU – Someone out there keeps coming with these ideas: Clothing Company Attempts to Reclaim Swastika for LGBTQ People: […]
Continue reading »GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN’S DATING TIPS – I was expecting so much more when I came across this teaser on News.com.au (of course, I should have known […]
Continue reading »WHAT IF INEQUALITY IS MISLEADING? – I’m not an economist so I can’t critique but it strikes me as interesting research: Bruce Meyer of the […]
Continue reading »IN CASE YOU MIGHT EMBARRASS YOUR EMPLOYER – In September 2005, I had a tough decision to make: should I accept a job offer to […]
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Real marriage, sham debate
Never in the field of political conflict in Australia was so much time of so many monopolised by so few. Many will no doubt quibble […]
Continue reading »MACRONOMICS – Who would have thought that a 39-year old empty suit would prove to be empty? A lot of people actually. Emmanuel Macron’s honeymoon […]
Continue reading »SYDNEY – SUNNY YET DEPRESSED – Apologies for the lack of blogging this weekend. I have travelled south of the border for one of my […]
Continue reading »HOW TO KILL “DESPACITO” – Maybe you hated the song right from the start, maybe you’ve only grown to hate it upon hearing it endlessly […]
Continue reading »SAVE OUR PLANET, KILL YOUR PETS – If you’re really serious about thinking globally but acting locally about the environmental crisis, not only should you […]
Continue reading »THE TROTS LIVE ON – IN THE UNIONS – While people in Venezuela scavenge through rubbish to find food, as the miracle of socialism (once […]
Continue reading »CANADA, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES – Canada strains under the wave of refugees from across the border, including this vignette from Montreal: This “increasing […]
Continue reading »BON GIORNO, BONGIORNO – Paul Bongiorno, who over his career migrated from news outlets that people pay attention to “The Saturday Paper”, doesn’t like a […]
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