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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
What happens to Kevin Rudd?
Dear William York,
Great to hear from you and thanks for the tip with regard to the overbooking of nuclear power plants. I am told the timewarp bottle should work in reverse thereby allowing you to system restore. Could we install ‘rebel’ nuclear power stations or even coal fired power stations in secret locations? At the very least we need to be able to recharge our IPods. If the submarines leased from the American Navy are decommissioned, how can they continue to make electricity? Or do you mean they are decommissioned with regard to nuclear weapons but not from the production of electricity? What are the lease arrangements? And can they still actually sail away or are they permanently moored at the Williamstown naval dockyard?
Sorry to hear about the pies and pastries – we can freeze a good supply in liquid nitrogen and hide them in the sperm banks if you wish? God knows we have a plethora of sperm banks now…
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
