The Journal
All writing
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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…
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Keynes Is Out
It is probably still sadly true that John Maynard Keynes is the world’s most important economist. But that doesn’t mean he is right, or ever was right. More and more governments are waking up to the…
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James Cameron Is a Brilliant Dill
I’m not sure that ‘dill’ is the right word. But I can’t think of a polite synonym. Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer don’t like James Cameron. They accepted his challenge to global warming sceptics to a ‘high noon’ debate.…
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Me and My New Camera
My wife has been telling me for some time, and not very kindly, that the picture to the left looks nothing like me, since I am now so old and grey and wrinkly. So here is a self portrait I…
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Being Fat is Your Parents’ Fault
But which parent? Two articles from the UK’s Telegraph. Fat Women Have Fat Daughters. No surprises there. Whether being fat is genetic or (my God, surely not!) related to diet and activity, what your mum does…
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Kangaroo Island Doctors Dispute
Full and accurate information is an important precursor to any debate, and to making appropriate decisions. One of the frustrations in the recent debate over the provision of medical services on Kangaroo Island has been the…
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Fixing Things That Ain’t Broke
With solutions that don’t work. I hope soon to comment on the Murray Darling proposals (costing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs to ‘preserve’ something that never existed until fifty years ago) and SA’s…
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The Value of Life
Amidst the general left wing media outrage (‘small-minded’, ‘ignorant’, ‘bigoted’ are frequently occurring words) at the prosecution of two young people in Queensland who attempted to abort their baby, I came across this review of the film…
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Respect for Women
You can’t be a bloke if you don’t respect women. But ask a group of women if they respect men and you will likely be greeeted with hoots of derisive laughter. Not true of all women,…
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Excuses
Sorry about the lack of posts over the last week. My wife Kathy has been in Western Australia to spend some time with her mother. This means I need to run the shop by myself. It…
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You Are Not ‘Entitled’ To A Job
An expurgated, edited and (slightly) expanded version of a perfect rant from the always interesting Celestial Junk. Jobs are a byproduct of healthy industry. They are not a goal in and of themselves and they most definitely are…
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Osama Bin Laden Worried
And so he should be. But what is he worried about? Climate change. Of course. There are two possibilities here. Either Osama is an ignorant bloodthirsty hypocritical loon, and he really does believe that anthropogenic climate…
