The Journal
Politics
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The Good Samaritan Did Not Use a Government Credit Card
Those dastardly right-wing Christians are at it again. This time they are claiming that we serve the poor best by being financially responsibile: … we do not need to “protect programs for the poor.” We need to protect…
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Race and Riots
The ever interesting Katharine Birbalsingh says the riots in England are about race, and nothing will be resolved until authorities are willing to face this fact: Some of the black kids I used to teach will…
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Palin: How We Got Here and What We Can Do About It
First, hello! It has been a month since my last post – my apologies. I have had some minor health and family issues to sort out. Then there is the retail downturn, and downturn in the number of…
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Climate Science by, Like, a Scientist
The opinions of politicians, singers and film stars on the state of the climate and what should be done about it, are eagerly sought by the populist press. As a partial consequence of this, the populist press is becoming…
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So Scary It’s Profitable
A couple of excerpts from Matt Ridley, writing in The Australian: No matter how many scares are proved wrong, the next set of dispatches of doom are treated with the same reverential respect. Remember what the media…
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Sunburnt
‘Sunburnt’ was the headline on the front page of Saturday’s Adelaide Advertiser. In the accompanying article, The Advertiser revealed the shocking news that the costs of government subsidies to people who installed solar panels, both the…
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A Little More on Sarah Palin
Writing in American Thinker, Robert Simmons, Jr says Sarah Palin should run for president, and can win if she does. His argument is that she is a genuine social conservative/economic libertarian – just what is needed…
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Is The Age Finally Seeing the Light?
Although The Age is a left leaning paper, I was a regular reader up until a few years ago. I am not sure what changed, but it seemed to me that The Age was no longer content…
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Jackboots on Viscount Monckton
A few days ago Viscount Monckton suggested that those who think like professional climate boogeymen Ross Garnaut are on a short road to fascism. Cue legacy media frenzy of horror. His comments were bizarre, appalling, distasteful, etc, etc. He…
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Go Sarah
I doubted that Sarah Palin was electable as US president, even if she won the Republican nomination. I have changed my mind. She could do the job. The democrat/liberal claim she is stupid is based on…
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Rapture, Global Warming, and Other Delusions
Harold Camping was wrong. 200 million Christian believers were not ‘raptured’ up to heaven on Saturday. If Christian fundamentalists keep this up, it will only be another 100 or so wrong predictions and they will have as…
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Building the Stuff-up Revolution
I am against taxpayer funded subsidies as a matter of general principle. Subsidies mean the government thinks it knows how to use your money better than you do. For example, I have a 100km return trip…
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Predictable Predictions
‘Will your home be underwater?’ asks the Adelaide Advertiser, which seems to be taking on a new role as the Adelaide (Labor Party) Advertiser. Under political pressure over its unspecified carbon tax, the Federal Government will…
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Assange Wins Peace Prize – Pardon?
The Sydney Peace Foundation has handed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange its gold medal for extraordinary achievement in promoting peace with justice. Excuse me while I throw up. The Foundation glowingly reports that this is only the…
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Insults Are Not Evidence
In the early eighties I went through a stage of uncertainty about the ordination of women to the priesthood. I was living in Adelaide at the time, studying at Flinders/The Adelaide College of Divinity for priestly…
