The Journal
All writing
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Mossad’s Been Busy Lately
With extensive shark and vulture training programmes, and bombing churches in Egypt and Iraq. The scary thing is that some people really do believe these things, as the last link above demonstrates. A brief quote: Prior…
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Just for a Laugh
The 11 most painfully obvious newspaper articles. Including: About a plane crash: ‘So far, investigators have determined that the crash occurred when the plane hit the ground.’ About a crime: ‘Police have two theories. One is…
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Sub-Prime Mortages Emit No CO2
So how could they possibly be a problem? Ann Coulter nails the sub-prime cause of the current recession (if you think it is over, think again): Forget “stimulus” bills and “shovel-ready” bailouts (for public school teachers,…
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Prudence, Refugees and the NBN
Firstly, apologies for the lack of posts over the last six weeks. I won’t bore you by explaining what the problem was. Let’s just hope that 2011 is more restful year! I have been thinking lately…
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‘Green Fuels’ Aren’t Green
via Small Dead Animals: The ETC Group, an international organization supporting sustainability and conservation, has just published its newest report, an 84-page document that presents a lengthy criticism of “the new bioeconomy.” In it, principal author…
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Oh Sarah, You’re So Dumb
Or maybe not. Sarah tweeted that she wasn’t happy with low-life leftist website Gawker (no link for them!) quoting large passages of her new book out of context, and without her permission. This was Gawker’s reply:…
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Pope Changes the Rules – Not
Oh my goodness, the legacy media really are a laugh a minute. Three examples: Pope changes view on condom use. No he hasn’t. Pope Agrees Condom Use Can Be Justified. That’s not what he said. Pontiff…
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Why There’s No Fondling at Israeli Airports
Israel’s Top Ten Airport Security Technologies The technologies are interesting and certainly work. But what seems to make the most difference is the thinking. “Israel concentrates on the passengers and not their luggage so we have…
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Two More Thoughts
First: ‘Social justice’ is a key identifying phrase, a shibboleth, for liberal/progressives. Conservatives are assumed not to care about social justice, being concerned only with making money and reducing taxes. Then why is it that conservatives…
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Sophie Mirabella
Sophie Mirabella is one of my favourite Australian politicians. She is hard working, honest and intelligent – a possible future Prime Minister, and one who would be vastly more effective, in part because she has vastly more integrity,…
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Have an Nice Day, and Naked Pictures at the Airport
I remember seeing a guy a guy who had been asked to leave several supermarkets interviewed on TV. He objected to being told ‘Have a nice day’ by checkout operators. Fair enough. It is a silly,…
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‘Proof’ of Psychic Powers, Fish Numbers and HIV
Proof of psychic powers? Actually, no. Just proof that academics are not easily able to think beyond their preconceived notions. Professor Daryl Bem says his work shows most people have psychic powers. He conducted nine different…
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Julia Gillard Makes No Sense
Julia Gillard is not stupid. But as Forrest Gump said, ‘Stupid is as stupid does.’ And there could hardly be anything more stupid than putting a punitive tax on the resource – cheap carbon fuels – that…
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Anyone interested in education should read this article, ‘The Shadow Scholar,’ in the Chronicle of Higher Education. ‘Ed Dante’ makes a living writing essays for school and university students. A teenager asked me a couple of week…
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Why Be Good?
One of the arguments for the existence of God is that without God, there can be no objective moral standards. Rights are whatever we decide they are, good and bad are whatever we decide they are.…
