The Journal
Current Affairs
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The Airless Spectacle of Political Onanism
The title of this post is a quote, not about Australia’s Liberal and National party leadership (though it could be – more about that later), but from an article about China’s official 60th birthday celebrations. David Burchell,…
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Daycare Makes Children Fat
A study of more than 12, 000 British children between the ages of seven and nine has found that children who spend large amounts of time in daycare because both parents (or a sole parent) work, are significantly more…
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The Apocalyptic Cult of Global Warming
I have just finished reading Raphael Aron’s book Cults: Too Good to Be True (out of print now, I think, but his Cults, Terror, and Mind Control is still available). The introduction begins with this quote from…
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You Don’t Have A Problem With God, Do You?
It is worth the wait through the annoying ads (and the slow download speed) for this interview between a swish CNN interviewer and a rural US car dealer. Free AK47 with every truck. Mr Muller, the…
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Child Labour
Just got back from Adelaide where Kathy and I visited my sister Amanda in hospital. On every second bus shelter there seemed to be a poster exhorting us to put an end to child labour. It…
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The Gods Are Coming Back
Crop circles with an appealing Mayan theme have appeared in Wiltshire. On second thoughts, I’m not sure that the phoenix is part of Mayan mythology (it’s Persian). But the whole ‘The Mayans believed the world would end in…
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No Gayness For Guru
Last week India passed legislation decriminalising homosexual acts between consenting adults. This has not been entirely popular. The world’s most popular guru, Swami “Baba” Ramdev, (he has an international TV audience numbering about 85 million) has said a number…
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Frost Makes A Horror Day In Tasmania
Tasmania is Australia’s smallest state, with just 500,000 people. On Friday, nine people were killed in twelve hours on Tasmanian roads. Many roads around the state are again covered by ice and frost this morning. Acting Sergeant Scott…
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Was Obama Checking Out A 17 Year Old’s Backside?
A picture has been circulating around the web over the last few days which seems to show President Obama stealing a longing look at a 17 year old girl’s rear end. I don’t think Obama is…
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World Leaders: Tide Must Not Come In More Than 2 Metres
Well, almost. World leaders have decreed global temperature must not increase by more than 2 degrees over pre-industrial levels. How realistic this is depends what they mean by ‘pre-industrial.’ Generally that term would be taken to…
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Buzz Aldrin Says ..
The climate’s been changing for billions of years, and there’s no evidence anything humans have done has changed those natural cycles. Here’s what Buzz had to say (from the Telegraph, via Watts Up With That): ..…
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I Like Trains
This story about the ernormous cost (over $1,000 per taxpayer) of the US’ proposed fast rail system is a few days old. And I like trains. Oh, I said that. But even so, it is more…
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When It Is Ok To Meddle
Not in Iran, obviously, even though that election was almost certainly rigged, hundreds of protestors have been killed, arrested or simply ‘disappeared,’ and British embassy staff are to be tried on trumped up charges of stirring up…
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Sarah Palin To Resign As Alaska Governor
Maybe she is looking ahead to the 2012 presidential election. Good luck to her if so. She has vastly more experience of real life and of running things, making decisions and managing budgets that work than…
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Presstitutes
Ha, ha. I don’t know who invented this word, noted here by Michalle Malkin, but it describes some of the mainstream media perfectly. Except prostitutes only sell their bodies to make a living. Many journalists seem…
