
The Daily Outrage
Today’s Daily Outrage courtesy of students at Oberlin College, Ohio, the institution renowned as the first in the nation (in 1835) to open admission to […]
Continue reading »Today’s Daily Outrage courtesy of students at Oberlin College, Ohio, the institution renowned as the first in the nation (in 1835) to open admission to […]
Continue reading »Want to know why Trump is about to become the Republican nominee and why Bernie is almost the Democrat nominee (though is unlikely to get […]
Continue reading »With apologies to Paul Kelly, the era of economic reform in Australia is over. As is the era of a smaller, if not exactly small, […]
Continue reading »He might be a tomatohead but he’s our tomatohead – and he’s right. Unless you have been in a quarantine yourself for the past few […]
Continue reading »I have a sneaking suspicion it’s an election time. What do I base my suspicions on? Well, a few days apart two colourful fliers have […]
Continue reading »I miss the ’90s. I never thought I would say that, but there it is. As a Gen X, I’m a child of the ’80s, […]
Continue reading »The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe, Tom Wolfe observed a long time ago. […]
Continue reading »â€œIf you live in one of Australia’s capital cities, you’ve likely seen this poster. The artist says if you haven’t seen it yet, you will […]
Continue reading »Antony and Cleopatra. Hitler and Stalin. James Carville and Mary Matalin. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. OK, maybe they’re not the best examples. Maybe that’s […]
Continue reading »Sometime later today I will finish reading Walter Isaacson’s “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution”, his bigger […]
Continue reading »The other Saturday morning, as one does when the federal election campaign is on, I picked up two metal A-frames holding corflutes for an old […]
Continue reading »Thanks to the 2016 GOP presidential primaries I have been exposed to many new concepts and ideas, most of which I could have easily done […]
Continue reading »I’m in love with the Tag Cloud, I really am. Not only is it a handy tool for all of you to narrow down what […]
Continue reading »Possibly in time to celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia on May 17: A group of 51 Muslim states has blocked 11 gay […]
Continue reading »Twelve years ago, exactly to a day – 19 May 2004 – I became a minor blogging celebrity on the back of an observation that […]
Continue reading »I love books. I have been reading them since I was 5 years old and seriously collecting them since I acquired my first bookshelf a […]
Continue reading »The short answer is no. As colourful as Donald Trump’s biography is, I gather he has never been taken a prisoner of war while serving […]
Continue reading »Every news and commentary outlet needs a good slogan. All the news that’s fit to print. We report, you decide. Speaking for the Workers’ Party […]
Continue reading »Has there ever been a better time to go back to blogging? Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton look set to face off in the ugliest […]
Continue reading »