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Nuclear non-option

March 13, 2024 - 15:26 -- Admin

I have just seen another Coalition vegetable (Ted O’Brien) on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 7:30 show1. The reason O’Brien was on the show was in relation to nuclear energy, and he failed to answer any questions put to him by Sarah Ferguson; instead he simply talked over the top of her. This is a technique often used by creationists and is called the Gish Gallop.

Privileged

March 8, 2024 - 11:37 -- Admin

An academic colleague of mine visited the Soviet Union (in the 1980s) on some sort of exchange program to do something geological with scientists in Moscow. While staying in an academy of science hotel, he was having a quiet drink by himself in the bar of the hotel when a woman with two men came into the bar. Then ensued an altercation of some sort between the two men, who subsequently left. Then the woman came over to my colleague and started talking to him in excellent English.

Book burning

February 22, 2024 - 16:29 -- Admin

The Nazis burnt books by Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque among many other well-known intellectuals, scientists and cultural figures, many of whom were Jewish1. 

Gluteal outrage

February 17, 2024 - 11:21 -- Admin

In the online magazine ‘Pacific Longboarder’ there is a photograph of the Gold Coast  businessman who complained about the wearing of g-string bikinis away from the beach. Under the photograph was the headline “Ian Grace says thong bikinis make him feel uncomfortable’1. I laughed out loud when I saw that, as the unwritten reply “well, he shouldn’t wear them” flashed across my ageing brain.

What next?

February 12, 2024 - 19:55 -- Admin

Barnaby Joyce was recorded lying on his back on the footpath in Lonsdale Street, in the suburb of Braddon, Canberra, late on Wednesday night (7th February). He was heard mumbling into his phone “dead f***ing c**t”, while supposedly talking to his wife, Vikki Campion1. Campion, and her father, a member of One Notion, are now trying to put the blame onto onlookers for not trying to help Joyce, even suggesting that he was in a “very bad place” and that “who’s to say he didn’t have a stroke”1.

Natural selection, again

February 7, 2024 - 09:33 -- Admin

I had measles as a kid, some time in the 1960s. I can still remember spending days lying on the lounge in a darkened room. I did not need to go to hospital, and I cannot remember how ill I was, and that is probably a good thing. Having measles was almost a rite of passage for a kid in those days. At about the same time, a vaccine was developed for the virus, and subsequently the disease largely disappeared from view.

Beginning of the end for Tasmanian Liberals?

January 30, 2024 - 17:14 -- Admin

Everyone has seen the decline of the Victorian Liberal Party which, in the two most recent state elections, has gone backwards1,2, in part because the party in that state was perceived as having been taken over by religious nutters3. Such a takeover of the Liberal Party by religious nutters is also seen to be, in part, the reason the Liberal Party was almost annihilated in a state election in Western Australia4.

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