ASTRONAUT? NO, AN ENTREPRENEUR! – Good news from Great Britain: Ask any young child what they want to be when they grow older and you’ll […]
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Ten things we should be talking about instead of Same Sex Marriage
It was with great lack of joy that I came back from five weeks in Europe to find out that the public debate in Australia […]
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It’s official: everyone hates political correctness
News.com.au ran a story this morning under the headline “Senior Australians say political correctness is ruining society”, based on recent research on manners commissioned by […]
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Let’s get rid of lots of people so that lots of people won’t die
Needless to say, most of the people who care about the environment are well-meaning and decent (agree or disagree about specific issues), but there is […]
Continue reading »GEN Y AWFULNESS MEETS EURO AWFULNESS – A postcard from Spain: Living with your parents is one thing, but hitting them up for weekly financial […]
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Nothing budget about the Budget
Language constantly evolves to match the evolving society. Words get old and become obsolete, new words come in to enrich our vocabulary. We are witnessing […]
Continue reading »SNOWFLAKES IN HELL – From the new, depressing research by CBS’ David Poltrack and Nielsen Catalina Solutions: The median age of millennials is 30, Poltrack says […]
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Never trust anyone under 30
When they were singing about the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, they didn’t mean the time of endless leaks. But that’s what they’re getting. […]
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Check your hot female privilege
Forget white privilege. Or male privilege. Or white male privilege, which presumably trumps them all (no pun intended), including black male privilege and white female […]
Continue reading »NO NYT, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS DON’T SUPPORT FREE SPEECH – “The New York Times” is impressed: Support among American high school students for the First […]
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The first rule of Whine Club is…
The first rule of Whine Club is: you constantly talk about Whine Club. You talk about it, you Facebook it, tweet it, Snapchat it, YouTube […]
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FFS, just grow up
You know what really bothers me about all the most outlandish anti-Trump hysteria? That the most ridiculous examples of it take place on college and […]
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George W Bush murdered more people than Stalin, or “(old) children say the darnest things”
One third of the Millennials think that George W Bush killed more people than Joseph Stalin. Over a third have a favourable impression of Karl […]
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Men will be boys
According to French historian Philippe Aries in his 1960 classic “Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Lifeâ€, childhood was invented by Renaissance Europeans*. […]
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The terrible truth about staffers
Poor Jack Walker, by now probably an ex-adviser to Christopher Pyne. Not only has he and his eight Sydney mates spent the past four days […]
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Feminism – helping ugly chicks get laid since 1970
Girl meets boy online. Boy says no. Girl’s sister uses social media to shame the boy. Boy gets called a “creepâ€, an “asshole†and an […]
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The boy who cried fascism
By labelling every mainstream conservative extremist, bigoted, sexist, racist, homophobic, and probably a fascist, the left has devalued these descriptions to such an extent that […]
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Eat the old (updated)
No issue recently has split the generations more – and more acrimoniously – than Brexit. Whether 66 per cent of young Brits voted to “Remainâ€, […]
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The Daily Outrage
You know what, Labor? Screw you. Here I was complaining on Facebook earlier that I can’t seem to get outraged by anything today. Then I […]
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Kids these days…
The other day I’ve learned a lot about young people from two articles. As many of you know, as an embittered, elderly Gen Xer I […]
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