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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Once upon a Climategate
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In order to distract the people from massive government debt and invasion, the Prime Minister had the public servants construct a carbon horse. He politely pointed out to the citizens that they were wearing no clothes and that their flatulence was driving the rain away. The public servants were instructed to leave the carbon horse outside the crumbling walls of the Liberal Party in the rubble where all walls fall. ‘Take me in – plug me in’ said the livid neon sign. So they took it in and plugged it in to the thing that doesn’t love walls and the sign turned blue and flashed the words ‘The barbarians are within – it is five minutes to midnight and the barbarians are within’
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
Aug 25 2024
3 mins
There's a veritable industry of academics raising alarm about how global warming and a polluted, dying planet will leave humanity and the animal kingdom in such a state that cannibalism will be a matter of survival. I'll spurn schoolyard puns and cheap gags except for one, and that by way of good advice: don't give them a big hand
Aug 09 2024
13 mins
I thought initially that this topic was a bit of fun. But it turns out that entomophagy, as the eating of insects is called, is an essential component of the Western lemmings' race to net-zero. Need it be said that one of the biggest and most enthusiastic lemmings is our very own climate crazies at the CSIRO?
Jul 31 2024
15 mins
