A while ago there was a thread on Club Troppo about some of the annoying tropes that people come up with while arguing on the internet. RTS blogger Ken Lovell mentioned the common assumption that if you criticise the Liberal party, either State or Federal, you are a Labor supporter and have a portrait of Kevin Rudd / whichever State premier applies hanging in your parlour. Nothing could be further than the truth for this leftie luvvy, and many of my compatriots too. Read more »
The Political Compass is a now-venerable internet quiz of people’s political leanings. But, like certain public broadcasters we know, it is vulnerable to accusations that it fails to give full voice to the rich panoply of views that are vital to any living democracy.
If, like me, you are annoyed by the lack of representation for respectable conservative opinion online, you may find the corrected Compass over the fold more to your liking.
Hint: The correct answers are (c) and sometimes (d). Read more »
People have been writing about the glass ceiling for years, but some women need to worry more about a glass floor. Read more »
Malcolm Turnbull may think that cutting petrol excise is bad policy. But he doesn’t mind indulging in yet more petrol-price populism:
Mr Turnbull also signalled the Coalition could move to exclude petrol from the emissions trading scheme, due to start in 2010, which puts a price on carbon emissions.
Instead of placing a carbon tax on petrol the Coalition would support stronger vehicle emissions standards.
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If you wander into an inner-suburban bookshop at the moment, the first thing that hits you is the enormous piles of remaindered polemics about the evils of the Bush administration. The second thing that hits you is the number of green how-to guides, promising to teach you the secrets of an eco-friendly existence. Read more »
Well, hasn’t it been a busy week or so for NSW Minister John Della Bosca and his wife, Federal backbencher MP Belinda Neal?
Of course, for the last few days we’ve only been hearing about her, despite Della Bosca’s documented history of multiple traffic offences leading to a revoked driving license and allegations that he was part of the alleged drunken and abusive behaviour in a Central Coast nightclub last weekend. Read more »
Gather ’round, ye lovers of the ludicrous, ye delectators of demonologie! I have for you a tale as twisted as a fakir’s rope, as misconceived as Leda’s progeny, as labyrinthine as the guts of a gorgon!
Do not lightly look upon this miasma of misappropriation! It hath rendered dark the brightest of minds, and driven the most sanguine logicians to babbling madness! Read more »
In my post on The Stupid Cult of Cooling and the Goyder Line debate, I commented that claims of global cooling since 1998 (or 2002, depending who you’re reading)
are, for the most part, made by the sort of people who in 1998 (or 2002) were denying the existence of the global warming which they now claim was actually happening but has ceased.
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If so, you’ll be interested to hear that the Democratic Socialist Party has expelled a minority faction calling itself the “Leninist Party Faction”. Read more »
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