The Journal
All writing
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Sex On The Lawn At Windsor
A couple have been arrested for having sex on the lawn at Windsor Castle. They have been cautioned for ‘outraging public decency.’ The pair, in their early thirties, stripped on a private grass bank at the…
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100 Million Mentally Ill People In China
“This is a modest number,” said Huang Yueqin, the director of the National Centre for Mental Health. Mental illness has now overtaken heart disease and cancer as the biggest burden on the Chinese health system, according…
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Not Ready To Make Nice
I like the Dixie Chicks, even though their politics are entirely unrelated to reality. This song, though, could be a message from the free world to terrorists everywhere. Not Ready To Make Nice. I love this clip.
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Sharkstopper, Jupiter Jack
Just a couple of interesting gadgets. The Sharkstopper is an accoustic shark repellent. It produces sound at a pitch sharks find uncomfortable, so they just swim away. That’s the idea, anyway. If testing shows this is…
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I Love Natalie
And I love Susan Boyle. What to do? Just watch it. Crowds love ugly people – Britains Got Talent Parody. It’s a parody of the judges, not Susan Boyle, by the way. ‘There’s something so surprising…
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Who’s A Snollygoster?
World Wide Words defines a snollygoster as ‘a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician.’ Snollygoster has not been heard much for the last sixty years. President Truman used it in 1952, and defined it, either in ignorance or…
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Michael Caine, Tax, And Stuffing Up The Economy
A few people, including Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt, have picked up these comments from Sir Michael Caine, originally published in the UK Telegraph: “The Government has taken tax up to 50 per cent, and if it…
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Loan Sharks Take Advantage Of The Poor, But..
It takes two to make a loan. Borrowers are losing beds, TVs and washing machines after taking out short-term, high-interest “payday loans” they cannot afford to repay, say consumer advocates. So, don’t take out the loan.…
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Top Gear Told To Be ‘Less Sexist’
Britain’s new ‘Equality Bill’ replaces nine other diversity laws, so that employers will find it easier to put into place a range of inefficient and unneccesary measures thought up by people wo have never run a business in their lives. Great…
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The Sky Is Falling
Melbourne today recorded its coldest April morning for 60 years. In Coldstream, in Melbourne’s outer east, the mercury dropped to -2.7C, while Mt Hotham had the morning’s lowest temperature of 4.4C – a day after the…
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Brain Dead Rann Government Begins Plastic Bag Ban On Monday
Maybe there are a few members of South Australia’s Labor Government who have a brain, or at least part of one. But any government which could introduce a measure so utterly pointless and so clearly going…
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I’m Not Convinced Swine Flu Is Going To Be A Pandemic
But a 23 month old child died of Swine Flu in the US today – the first recorded death outside Mexico. All deaths from any disease are sad. It is sad that so many have died in Mexico,…
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Two More Boats Of Illegal Immigrants Today
Australian authorities intercepted another two “suspected illegal entry vessels” in Australian waters today. On Tuesday Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull called for an independent enquiry into the reasons for the dramatic increase in illegal arrivals. It would make…
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Espresso Book Machine
Angus and Robertson in Melbourne installed one of the 1.5 model of these brilliant machines in September last year. Now Blackwell’s in London have installed one of the new EBM 2.0 models. The Espresso Book Machine can print a…
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Faith Fighter Game Banned After Muslim Complaint
A few years ago in Victoria, Pastors Daniel Scot and Danny Nalliah ran a conference on ministering to Muslims. A group of Muslims attended in order to be offended. After they were offended as planned, they complained…