Is the world going crazy?
Permit me to share a personal confession:
I feel like the world is going crazy.
Perhaps it has always been, and I've only just realised.
I started to notice a new kind of craziness in early 2014...
Hypocrites and Opportunists
Not to be outdone by the Greens, Victorian Trades Hall Council (the Unions) are now joining the chorus of sanctimonious types lecturing everyone else over the Adam Goodes controversy. The Union campaign takes the...
Bad sports
It has been widely noted over the past week that the Adam Goodes booing saga has exposed the nasty truth that the average football fan is a boorish racist. Goodes is not the first...
Landslide in Nepal
Up to 20 people were killed today (our time) by a landslide following heavy rainfall in Nepal. The mountain nation is home to some of the poorest people in the world. In the past,...
A subtle and insidious racism
On Tuesday, the Guardian's Celeste Liddle made light of Adam Goodes' "imaginary" and "invisible" spear which he threw into the "general direction of the crowd" on that fated day, earlier this year.
Liddle mocks Goodes stating:
"there...
What is up with Amnesty International?
What on earth is up with Amnesty International?
This once highly respected organisation continues to fail to speak out against some of the worst human rights violations, and is now tipped to make a decision...
Maximus Goodius Dividesus, and the Roman mob
From time to time the emperor, Caesar, deluded himself that he commanded absolute power in Rome. So too did the Senate, that patently unrepresentative body who presumed to rule Rome also before the emperors,...
Global migrant crisis cannot be solved by moral posturing
Today, a migrant died after 1,500 migrants attempted to storm the Chanel tunnel connecting France to England. This comes off the back of 37,000 foiled attempts to cross the Chanel since January this year.
We...
Poll reveals 100% of people believe ABC is biased!
An exclusive XYZ Viewer Poll has revealed that 100% of people believe that the ABC is biased, but there is a wide range of views as to how the issue of bias can be...
Equality and the fallacy of ‘sameness’. Bishop says no to parliamentary quotas
Commenting in response to the drawn out drama of the parliamentary 'quota' saga (it is getting about as long in the tooth and as boring as the Adam Goodes 'booing' saga), Julie Bishop, Australia's...
