Days on, the Orlando tragedy continues to be the Rorschach test of stupid (for the first installment click here). 1.Former (unrepentant) Weather Underground terrorist and Barack Obama’s mentor, Bill Ayers: …
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That pretty much sums it all up, I think. Missed anything? Tell me in the comments.
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(Damn it, tabloids; beat that headline!) Every day I miss Boris Johnson more and more. The new Mayor of London, Labour’s Sadiq Khan, having managed to solve all the other …
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Two (Update: three) quick thoughts about Orlando: 1) Can we please stop branding anyone who might have some issues with same-sex marriage or transgender bathroom use a homophobe? It detracts …
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File it under “Colour me completely astonishedâ€: The vast majority of Australian Defence Force personnel believes the Muslim religion promotes Âviolence and terrorism, despite “cultural sensitivity training†by the ADF …
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There is one thing I don’t like about Trump. Actually, there are a few; his policies, such as they are, which for most part don’t resemble the conservative and classical …
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A first date tonight. She likes Vietnamese. Not too many options in Brisbane inner north. Her: “What’s that Vietnamese place that was named after some dictator that attracted all the …
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Take a look around the world and it puts everything in perspective; suddenly, all the huge “controversies†at home turn from mountains into molehills and all the activists seem less …
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The Guy of the Year, er, sorry, the Australian of the Year, wants you to stop using words like “guys†in your workplace. “I have now removed that from my …
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President Obama visited Hiroshima the other day, and to his credit he didn’t apologise for dropping the bomb. He didn’t drop the bomb himself, of course. That was President Truman, …
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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 women and all races: “A …
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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. Or at least that used …
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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 picture follow up to the …
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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 and transgender organisations from attending …
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