The Journal
All writing
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Things Are Looking Up In North Korea
Isolated protests have broken out in North Korea. South Korea has dropped 3 million leaflets into North Korea. The leaflets are about pro-democracy protests in other parts of the world. South Korea has also been sending rice, medicines and…
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Not Having The Approved Opinions
Busy at work this morning, but had to stop to comment on the claim this morning from the legacy media that a survey by ‘leading universities’ (I guess as opposed to Australia’s other, less impressive universities) has found that as…
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Science Wins (For Now)
The US Congress has voted to cut funding to the IPCC, the bloated and corrupt UN organisation charged with producing scary graphs about climate change. Amusing graphic take on this development. Of course, the Republicans’ proposed changes…
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US and UN Condemn Britain Over Links to Libya
The US ambassador to London, Louis Susman, made an implicit attack on the UK’s attempts to welcome Col Gaddafi back into the international diplomatic fold in recent years. ‘I would suggest that to deal with [Gaddafi]…
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Everything Should Be Free
From the quite often amusing (but sometimes crude, and definitely not daily) Daily Grind: The Greens have greeted a left-wing think-tank’s report on ATM fees with a plan to ban the charges. The idea is based on…
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Faith and Science Collide
On the NPR (US public radio) website, Brian Reed writes condescendingly about the benighted residents of Kiribati. Even in a place as vulnerable as Kiribati, there are skeptics. “I’m not easily taken by global scientists prophesizing the…
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Music
Ezra Dulis at Big Hollywood has posted a list of his favourite 25 songs of 2010. The list is in two parts, numbers 1-10, and numbers 11-25. This is Ezra’s number six – The Innocence Mission – God is…
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Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby To be Filmed in Sydney
Sydney beats New York for Gatsby – a thumb in the eye for New York. Great news for New South Wales and a $120 million boost for the Australian film industry. Luhrmann has a chance with Gatsby to…
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Not A Paedophile If You Only Have Sex With Children Occasionally
There are many people for whom that ruling by a judge in Austria will come as a great comfort. There are many more for whom it be a source of astonished dismay. Elizabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a critic of…
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Green Power, Black Death
It has been estimated that 160 people die every minute from malaria or its complications. Malaria is a disease we could eradicate. Paul Driessen writes: Many chemotherapy drugs for treating cancer have highly unpleasant side effects…
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Still Getting Cooler
Cold and wet again this weekend on Kangaroo Island. So wet the race club’s major meet for the year had to be cancelled. I guess this proves global warming. Strange, after all the predictions of drought…
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Costello’s Silliness
Wins a bit of attention for The Age. Former Treasurer Peter Costello wrote in his column in The Age on Wednesday: Footballers are not chosen for their moral principles. They do not go into a national draft for budding…
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Villagers Outraged
The Daily Mail reports that residents of villages in Surrey and Kent have been told to remove wire mesh from their windows, because the mesh could pose a risk to burglars, and the burglars could claim compensation if they…
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Better Border Security Means Fairer Treatment For Refugees
Some interesting facts in an article by Paul Sheehan in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald. The Department of Immigration … is busy spending an unprecedented amount delivering an ineffective program on the scale of waste comparable to…
