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Politics

The most terrifying photo of the 2016 presidential elections so far

June 10, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I am well and truly speechless. Doesn’t anyone on the campaign media team look after these things?

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Life / Politics

Who’s on first?

June 10, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Everyone’s making history these days. Come November, America might have the first female President, hard on the heels of the first African-American President. The US certainly has the first female …

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Politics

Does socialism work? Asking for a friend

June 8, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Young kids come to me on the street these days and ask: “Hey, Arthur, you were born and grew up in a communist country, didn’t you? So tell us, does …

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Politics

Trump and the leftification of the right politics

June 7, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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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Culture / Politics

America’s UnFantastic Four

June 6, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

How the hell, in a nation of 320 million, did we end up with these four anti-superhero losers as the last ones standing in the 2016 election contest?     …

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Culture / Life

Fox dog-whispers dead baby

June 5, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As a rule I never assume that celebrities are necessarily smart and/or sane, but once in a while a story pops up on the news that makes even me go …

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Politics

Dear anti-Trump protesters

June 4, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

This election campaign is only going to get more serious the closer to November we get. Which means Trump will become even more unbearable, which means you will feel obliged …

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Culture / Politics

Trump no longer ronery, endorsed by the Norks

June 1, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Well, maybe not. I hate it when the headline is more exciting than the story itself. Like this one: “North Korea says Trump isn’t screwy at all, a wise choice …

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Culture

The attack of 1000ft blockbuster atrocities

May 31, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I woke up this morning to the number one celebrity story in the news being Kate Beckinsale recounting how the director Michael Bay was an ass to her during and …

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Politics

Hey Trump supporters, hands off Ronnie!

May 31, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I have been born in a wrong place at a wrong time, and on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, so I can’t paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s immortal “oh snap” …

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Politics

Our revolting elites

May 31, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Just in case you’re still wondering what is causing the Donald Trump phenomenon, you could do worse than read any of Michael Lewis’ recent books. Not that people who support …

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Life / Politics

Dear Japan, sorry, not sorry

May 30, 2016May 30, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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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Happiness / Life

Walking the Bloody Nose Ridge

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

They were hoping to take the island in four days. After all, there was not much to take, just an expanse of bleached coral, some 10 km long and 1.5 …

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Culture / Politics

The Daily Outrage

May 26, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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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Politics

Why we’re in the shit we’re in…

May 26, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Want to know why Trump is about to become the Republican nominee and why Bernie is almost the Democrat nominee (though is unlikely to get there in the end)? Thanks …

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Barnaby
Culture / Politics

In defence of Barnaby

May 25, 2016May 25, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

He might be a tomatohead but he’s our tomatohead – and he’s right. Unless you have been in a quarantine yourself for the past few months, I’m sure you’re familiar …

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Culture / Life / Politics

On missing the 1990s

May 24, 2016May 17, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I miss the ’90s. I never thought I would say that, but there it is. As a Gen X, I’m a child of the ’80s, albeit as experienced on the …

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Politics

Austria, America, Australia

May 23, 2016May 23, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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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Culture / Politics

Silicon is a left-wing element

May 21, 2016May 21, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff - 15 Comments.

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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Milo
Politics

Let it all burn

May 19, 2016 - by Arthur Chrenkoff - 15 Comments.

Thanks to the 2016 GOP presidential primaries I have been exposed to many new concepts and ideas, most of which I could have easily done without. I’m thinking alt-right, cuckservatism, …

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When Greta goes to Guangzhou, part 2

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