Yeah, you might have noticed already. I’m in a Truthiness mood tonight, as Stephen Colbert might say. Remember all the loud denunciations I copped from harry clarke (of organism fame), Tim Blair et al et al etc. Read more »
Yeah, you might have noticed already. I’m in a Truthiness mood tonight, as Stephen Colbert might say. Remember all the loud denunciations I copped from harry clarke (of organism fame), Tim Blair et al et al etc. Read more »
Time was when it was easy to see where climate change denialism was coming from - corporate astroturf and the big biz of energy politics refracted through the media and the political sphere. What’s been puzzling me for some time is why there’s still a relentless drum beat of (increasingly nonsensical) climate change denialist posts coming from the likes of “Australia’s most talked about columnist”, Andrew Bolt. Read more »
Image by Bill Henson - sourced from DailyServing.com Read more »
There’s a really fascinating article in the New York Times‘ health section by Tara Parker-Pope - accessed via Feministing:
For insights into healthy marriages, social scientists are looking in an unexpected place.
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A lot of the debate about inflation targeting has been obscured by the Libs’ petrol bowser politics (and as well as it being dumb potential policy, I think it’s been dumb politics for Labor to start playing this game - however tentatively - as Mr Denmore said in comments, there’s a very simple political answer to the bowser tax wars the ALP should be employing). But I still think there’s a valuable point to make about the dissonance between elite discourses about the economy and perceptions about lived experience of the economy. Read more »
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