The Journal
2010
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Psychologist – ‘Get Over It’
Darn good advice. From The Mercury: A well known Hobart psychologist has got some advice for those people still consumed with grief for Packed to the Rafters character Mel Rafter – get real. Dr Harry Stanton…
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Beauty from Dust
This is neat. Scott Wade is an American artist who wanders around supermarket car parks looking for dirty cars. What he finds is dust. These are samples of what he leaves:
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$1.1 Billion Wasted on Solar Panels
From the Sydney Morning Herald: More than $1 billion of taxpayers’ money was wasted on subsidies for household solar roof panels that favoured the rich and did little to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, a scathing…
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Last Gasps of the Legacy Media
The Age reports that: A Melbourne private girls’ school that prevented a lesbian student from attending the school formal with her girlfriend is being inundated with messages from irate readers around the world accusing the school…
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Fat Facts
The People’s Republic of San Francisco has decreed that happiness is no longer permitted. At least, not in the form of happy meals. Or any other meals that include toys and TOO MANY CALORIES. Such meals are now…
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Alex Anderson, Rest in Peace
One of my wife Kathy’s relatives was Alex Anderson, the creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle. I have never visited the US, and am sorry I never had the chance to meet him. Alex was one of the…
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Rudd Worried About Tanner Leaking?!
This is little short of farcical. Leaker and big noter in chief Kevin Rudd, along with Wayne Swan and Julia Gillard, were so concerned about the possibility of then Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner’s leaking sensitive budget…
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Engineering, Medicine, Whatever …
Bombs found on planes in Dubai and Britain were large enough to have destroyed the planes mid-air, killing all on board, and causing further casualties if the bombs exploded over populated areas. A woman named Hanan…
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Chuck Norris Kicks a Hole in Time
Did you know that when Walker: Texas Ranger was first screened in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris, just to be on safe side? Now there is evidence he has kicked a hole in time itself.…
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No More Naughty Nurses
Nurses nationwide are banned from flirting with patients after the number of complaints about nurses with professional boundary issues tripled in 2009. Tripled! Oh gosh. What an appalling problem. Those nurses are just going nuts. Sex…
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Ready or Not
Boats of illegal immigrants are arriving in Australia, or being intercepted on the way here, at a rate of one every second day. Liberal churches and community groups claim they must be welcomed, given the benefit…
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And the Survey Says …
In the latest episode of Climate Family Feud, activist paper Scientific American ran a survey to guage its readers’ opinions on IPCC traitor Judith Curry and her opinions. The results show that Scientific American’s readers (over 4,000…
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Are There Apprentiships or Trainieships for Peopel in Your Inderstry?
A couple of weeks ago a Year Twelve student from the local school gave me a questionaire on employment in the IT industry. That was one of the questions. Most of the others had similar errors. I…
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Another Kind of Marriage
With the boundaries of what marriage means being vigorously stretched, this comes as no surprise: Taiwanese Woman to Marry Herself. “Age 30 is a prime period for me. My work and experience are in good shape,…
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Rare Earths, Monazite, Thorium and China
The rare earth elements are not ‘earths’ but metals. Nor are they rare. They are expensive because they are difficult to extract. Thorium isn’t a rare earth. It is generally found as a by-product of the processing of Monazite…
