The Journal
All writing
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Women Are Cool, And Betterer Than Men
From Quadrant Online: From the editorial of Island magazine, Autumn 2009 edition: Ruth Sunderland discusses the gender issues she feels are being ignored in the endless analysis of our current economic crisis. She writes: ‘This mess…
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Defence Minister Resigns
Sad, really, because the Defence Department is notoriously difficult, and department staff and military personnel both seem to have respected Joel Fitzgibbon’s abilities. The trigger for his resignation was a lack of clarity about contact between Mr Fitzgibbon…
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Samson and Delilah (Again)
I wrote about the taxpayer funded Australian film Samson and Delilah a couple of weeks ago. Gary Johns has written a review of the film. The review appears in today’s Australian. Here’s a bit to get you started: The…
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Time To Dump Chaser
The ABC’s Chaser’s War On Everything guys have come up with some funny stuff, although they have always picked soft targets. But the occasional funny bits have been offset by the far more frequent not in the slightest funny bits which are…
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Taliban Blows Up (Another) Girls’ School
From the Pakistan Daily Times, this story about the methods the Taliban use to produce their desired educational outcomes: The Taliban blew up another girls’ school in Mohmand Agency on Monday. According to sources, Taliban had wired the…
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The Longer They Are In School, The Further Behind They Get
Reviewing the results of the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment, Walter Williams notes: ..the longer American children are in school, the worse they perform compared to their international peers. In recent cross-country comparisons of fourth…
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For Love Or Money
The Tragedy of The Diocese Of The Murray. You have never cared about me. Nobody likes me. But I am still your bishop, so do what I say. Or give me $1 million and I will leave. That was the…
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Bashing Pharmacy Companies Costs Lives
It is a popular pastime to portray large pharamceutical companies as monstrous villains because they refuse to give away their products for free. Research to develop new drugs is expensive and uncertain. It takes on average…
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Search Engines
New internet search engines come and go so often that I don’t usually even bother to look at them. Usually they fail because they do not return relevant usable results. Returning sites clearly related to the…
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Big Pig
This monstrous pig was shot on a remote property in Western Australia three years ago. It weighed about 500lbs. Hardly breaking news, but the photo has been around for a while, and a few people thought it was…
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International Whores’ Day
In Sydney. No one else seems to have heard of it. Sex worker Ivy McIntosh said people in her profession were being overcharged when they placed ads in local papers. “I’m paying too much for a…
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No Complaints From The Left About This Murder
Two soldiers have been shot, one killed, at a military recruiting centre in Arkansas. The suspect, Abdulhakim Muhammad, a person of no particular appearance or religious views, has been arrested. Police found a small arsenal of weapons…
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Phishing Emails
Just received this email claiming to be from the Commonwealth Bank: We recorded a payment request from “HostGator -www.hostgator.com- Reseller Web Hosting” to enable the charge of $74.95 on your account. Because the order was…
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Avoiding Computer Virus Infection
Over the last few months I have noticed an increasing number of computers infected with the virut family of viruses. Some of these are very unpleasant. They can cripple your anti-virus software, replicate in various places…
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Gluing Breasts To Men
And tying penises to women, doesn’t make a man a woman, nor a woman a man. Andrew Bolt has made some rightly alarmed comments about an Australian court that pretends to help a confused 17 year…
