Are you a sexual racist?
Everything is racism nowadays, so you won’t be surprised to discover that your sexual preferences and physical attractions can be bigoted too: One evening while browsing the wildly popular gay …
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Krakow beats Amsterdam in Brit tourism stakes
This is, or isn’t, good news for Poland’s historical capital: The Polish city of Krakow has been named as the favourite destination for a short-haul city break for Brits by …
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Starving people to save them from starving
Policy-making, including in the area of environment (particularly in the area of environment) requires less emotion and more cost-benefit analysis, writes the “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg: When a “solution” to …
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Flog but don’t change a dead horse midstream
There is no use crying over spilled spill. What’s done is done and Australia has got its sixth Prime Minister in ten years. All done to the sounds of outrage …
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Close Encounters of the Congressional Kind
Republicans can be often heard talking about illegal aliens, but pretty soon there might be one in Congress with a personal experience of (legal) ones: U.S. House candidate Bettina Rodriguez …
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No regulation out of frustration
This sounds more like trolling than a serious proposal, but nowadays you never know: President Donald Trump is considering new regulations on Google’s search engine to address his concern that …
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Suffer little children for climate change
F*** the children, this time metaphorically, explains an American Cardinal: On Monday, Cardinal Blase Cupich responded to a scathing letter by former top church official in a controversy that has …
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Stalin and Assad fanboy now hearts North Korea
Jay Tharappel is a Sydney Uni academic (a tutor in human rights apparently) whom TDC readers might remember from last year when I wrote about some of his sterling political …
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Does Millennial illiteracy leads to socialism?
Here at The Daily Chrenk we ask all the important questions. Firstly, the recent scary study: Researchers from San Diego State University recently analyzed four decades’ worth of data from an …
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Brittany horny dolphin spears swimmers
It’s like “Jaws” being remade as a porn movie (illegal in most countries), as this French dolphin practices “make love not war”: A seaside village in Brittany has banned swimming on …
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Jihad, it’s a struggle
It’s weird how the year’s weirdest news story – and its sparse coverage – are getting weirder and weirder. Let’s recap the facts so far: Five adults arrested in a …
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Sins of the father
This is what happens when you stop looking at people as individuals: Lilly Diabetes has pulled its sponsorship of Conor Daly’s No. 6 car in the NASCAR Xfinity race at …
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English-language Exclusive: Vienna rejects King John III’s statue as anti-Turkish
Add this to the annals of European dhimmitude and spinelessness: Polish media is reporting that the city of Vienna has rejected the Polish gift of a statue of King Jan III Sobieski, …
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7 reasons why Australia is a better friend to the US than Canada
Earlier today Donald Trump sent a congratulatory tweet to Australia’s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison: Congratulations to new Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. There are no greater friends than the …
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No nice sentiment shall go unmocked
Australia has got a new Prime Minister as of Friday, sixth in ten years (yes, we have become a bit like Italy used to be, but with better standard of …
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What on Earth is a Kalashnikov electric car?
I know there is Christmas in July, but is there an April Fools’ Day in August? Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a …
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Chrenk the prognosticator – the good, the bad, and the ugly
Predictions are the bread and butter of punditry. Which is good for punditry because just like all the bread and butter we’ve ever eaten, we tend not to remember all …
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On San Francisco Shit Patrol
The progressives love the frisson of imagining dystopias where a few plutocrats enjoy their own private paradise while the masses are condemned to a Hobbesian life of squalor, poverty, violence …
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Good News from Everywhere
If you are depressed from reading the daily news, it’s nothing new – “if it bleeds, it leads” as an editorial philosophy that much predates the Trump presidency or for …
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Canberra: Things will get worse before they get much worse
And so the Canberra circus rolls on. Perhaps it’s unfair to call it that, as with real circuses people actually willingly pay money to enjoy the spectacle of skill, agility, poise …
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