Shooting epidemics and other deadly memes
Another day, another school shooting in the US – though contrary to CNN, it wasn’t the 23rd this year, unless you count, as CNN does, events like robbery attempts outside …
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Should 16-year olds vote?
The American media and the progressives (but I’m repeating myself) are jumping on the “let’s lower the voting age” bandwagon in the aftermath of the Parkland school massacre, having found among the …
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Young people are f***ing morons
Forty-four per cent of Millennials would to prefer to live in a socialist country, 7 per cent in a communist country and 7 per cent in a fascist one. Only …
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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 remains exactly in the same …
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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 an insurance agency: Attention, Gen …
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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 an increasingly vocal and increasingly …
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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 at the moment another interesting …
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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. Yesterday, following the “Vault 7” …
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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 privilege. We need to talk …
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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 it, write about it, email …
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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 university campuses. The people involved …
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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 Marx and Che Guevara. But …
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