Everybody is kung fu fighting
A good summary of the state of play as at the end of the APEC meeting in PNG, from Paul Kelly: In a major bonus for the Morrison government, the …
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The strange attraction of communist brutalism
Last month “The New York Times Style Magazine” asked the question that no one has really been asking anywhere: “Can Poland’s Faded Brutalist Architecture Be Redeemed?” My short answer was …
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America has more witches than Presbyterians
Salem, we have a problem: A report in the Christian Post contends that the number of witches (and Wiccans) has dramatically increased since the 1990s, to the degree that there may be …
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What’s your turkey’s name?
Life imitates “Portlandia”. The shot: The chaser: With just a week to go until Thanksgiving, it’s time to buy your turkey. But this year, you can also read about your …
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But is it any good?
Paul Tassi at “Forbes” notes an important pop-culture milestone being reached: This week we got a look six years into the future of The Walking Dead, a timeline after the death (well, disappearance) …
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An open letter to my American friends, re: your shambolic election process
Dear American friends You probably don’t need those pesky foreigners butting in and telling you that the recent – and continuing – controversies in Florida and Georgia (themselves only the …
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Climate change not killing polar bears fast enough
No matter how much CO2 we pump into the atmosphere, the big white bastards simply aren’t starving and drowning fast enough: There are too many polar bears in parts of …
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Macron-omics of a new European Empire
I don’t often sympathise with Donald Trump, but when I do it’s when he travels to Europe to meet with the motley crew of what passes as the continent’s best …
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Unfriended by Facebook
I’m old enough to remember when the Silicon Valley was thought of as vaguely libertarian. Good times. If true, they certainly didn’t last: Facebook Inc. executive and virtual-reality wunderkind Palmer Luckey was …
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Dead pimp, bigfoot porn lover, and a brother-marrying anti-Semite walk into the legislature
The joke is a punchline. Because democracy is a wonderful thing, it elects ’em all to a high office: the good, the bad and the ugly. Sometimes, the process takes …
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China’s Trojan roads and information highways
It would help greatly if more people conceptualised the relations between China and the Western world as a kind of a cold war. Of course, God forbid that it …
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Hey white women, hope you’ve enjoyed your minority status
…because it’s getting revoked, you traitors and mindless enablers of white patriarchal supremacy! I’ve written a while ago about the Asian (specifically Asian-American) people being revoked their minority victim status …
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Kill the normies, slaughter the weirdos
At the ever-excellent Quillette, Vincent Harinam and Bob Henderson have a long a thoughtful piece about the continuing fraying of the societal connectiveness and trust, resulting in ever greater polarisation …
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Midterm Madness Mars ‘Merica’s Mood
The voting still continues on the left coast, but from the results so far it seems like the opinion polls were correct in general – the Democrats take the House, …
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Australia welcome another Arthur
Long time no ambassador: A former legal adviser to Ronald Reagan has been nominated as the next United States ambassador to Australia. US President Donald Trump has nominated distinguished lawyer Arthur …
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Five brave predictions for post-midterms
While I’ll sleep the sleep of the innocent, the America, or about half of it, probably a bit more than usual this time, will vote in the most important election …
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“What if women went on a sex strike before the midterms?”
…and no one noticed. After the “Grab them by the ballot” nude photo shoot by “a diverse group of 10 Vermont women”, today, with only a few days to go …
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Swipe left, swipe right, swipe it all about
Politics ruins everything, part 578. As if there weren’t enough fake profiles on dating apps, whether bots trying to entice the unwary to other sites or sad individuals trying to …
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Once a Lemon, always a Lemon
After his brilliantly unselfconscious pronouncement earlier this week (“We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized …
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Grab Them By The Ballot
Whoever thought of this terrible idea is a terrible person – and I don’t even think this is a 4chan prank: BREAKING NEWS: Democrat-supporting women strip off for photo shoot …
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