TIME TO BUST? – Two interesting (and long) pieces about the Four Horsemen (sorry, Horsepeople (Centaurs?)) of App-ocalypse. Scott Galloway at “Esquire”: And “Eve Smith” […]
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THE SADDEST POST OF THE DAY – From Glenn Reynolds: THAT WAS A BIPARTISAN PROJECT, ACCOMPLISHED WITH HELP FROM THE IRS: Republicans Repeal The Tea Party. […]
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To the far right of the far left
One of my pet peeves is the mainstream media using the label “far-right” not as any sort of an accurate description but as a dog-whistle […]
Continue reading »LIFE IMITATES HARRY POTTER, AGAIN AND AGAIN – It’s not just that no one talks about government debt anymore – no one thinks about it […]
Continue reading »OXFAM DOESN’T HEART BILLIONAIRES – A new billionaire is created every other day. The three richest Americans have the same amount of wealth as the […]
Continue reading »POLAND AND MIGRANTS – For a long time now, Poland finds itself in the sights of the European Union (together with Hungary) for its refusal […]
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20 best books I’ve read in 2017
I read. Too much. In fact, my New Year’s resolution for 2018 is to read less, and instead fill that time with some more profitable […]
Continue reading »GUARDIAN’S “UTOPIAN THINKING” – Abi wants your money: Step 1: Work your whole life, with the government taking a large proportion of your earnings and spending most of it […]
Continue reading »WHO’S UP, WHO’S DOWN – Forecasting is not an exact science, but interesting nevertheless: The 2018 World Economic League Table, released today, projects that Australia […]
Continue reading »THIS IS WHY WE ELECT CONSERVATIVES – Or at least kinda-conservatives: In 1960, there were approximately 20,000 pages in the Code of Federal Regulations. Today […]
Continue reading »ICECUBONOMICS – The man who made millions understands how the economy works: The bullshit “tax cut” in a nut shell:Take the money from the people. […]
Continue reading »FIFTY YEARS MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE – Pew Research Centre asked 43,000 people in 38 countries: The biggest “better” – the country which is slowly […]
Continue reading »WHO PAYS THE TAXES? – Following up from my previous post today about the outrage and gnashing of teeth on the American left about the […]
Continue reading »FREAKING ABOUT THE TAX CUTS – FOR BAD AND FOR GOOD REASONS – Something finally happened in US Congress, apart from paying off victims of […]
Continue reading »WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION – Many are called, fewer are chosen: Students are packing in their degrees at the highest levels in a decade, […]
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Why the Palaszczuk government deserves to be Pole-axed
Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Labor government in Queensland is not the worst in Australia – it’s not as offensively far-leftist like the Andrews government in Victoria or […]
Continue reading »THE PROBLEM WITH CHARITIES – In a nutshell: like the government and the bureaucracy their mostly interested in self-perpetuation and growth. Big charities in Australia are […]
Continue reading »VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR – I’m old enough to remember (i.e. not that old at all, at least not in this context) the panic […]
Continue reading »YOU CAN BANK ON LABOR – Every time I fall despondent about how disappointing the Coalition government has been, there pops up Labor to demonstrate […]
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I tried to write a happy blog…
I really did. As God is my witness. After all, I’m the guy who had his 15 minutes (or 15 months in my case) of […]
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