Well, these are strange days, indeed: I find myself in wholehearted agreement with Margaret Atwood. Despite the acclaim heaped on them, I’ve always found Atwood’s books to be risible taradiddles with little grasp of history or the realities of human society. In contrast to the masochistic feminine fantasies
When it comes to the weather, a change is as good as a holiday. One winter some years back, here in Tasmania, we had several months of continual rain, with only a handful of rain-free days. It was maddening. At the other end of the scale, friends who’ve lived
I’ll confess to a major SF heresy: I’ve never much liked the novel Dune. But I do like both film versions. Yes, that includes David Lynch’s. Lynch may have disowned the film, due to the trauma of working for De Laurentiis productions and the appalling, unauthorised, “director’
I’m currently reading Jeff Fynn-Paul’s excellent American history, Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World. Call it a revision of revisionist history. While not shying away from the sometimes grim truths, Fynn-Paul demolishes nearly every grievance-mongering talking-point of the left, from “genocide” to “stolen
It’s conveniently forgotten now, but Frank Herbert’s Dune didn’t always enjoy the “SF Classic” status it does today. First published, as many SF novels were at the time, in serial form in a magazine, it struggled to find a book publisher. Its first book appearance, after more
As I reported recently, a majority of American voters are sick of being asked to play the world’s policemen. They’ve already seen thousands of their sons and daughters killed and mutilated in a futile attempt to impose liberal democracy on goat-herding savages. Most especially, they’re fed up
One of the signs of cultist thinking is the ability to fervently believe any number of obviously contradictory ideas at once. For instance, that a cult leader is an all-knowing prophet, while at the same time his or her consistently failed prophecies are still true. When it comes to cultist
In his autobiography, Chaim Witz (aka KISS star Gene Simmons) recalls how, during his childhood in Israel, his father always kept an Uzi on the kitchen table. His mother was one of only two of her family to survive the Holocaust. Both Witz parents were under no illusions about what
When ASIO chief Mike Burgess refused to name the politician he accused of what amounted to treason, all eyes turned to the Labor party. This is, after all, the party which took literal shopping bags of cash from CCP-linked “donors”. During the 2023 federal election, it emerged that China was
As I’ve written before, social media companies are the Big Tobacco of the 2000s. Their own research shows that they know their products are extremely harmful to (mental) health, especially for impressionable children and teens, especially girls — but they continue to market to them anyway. And if social media
Another election, another defeat for the globalist elite. No wonder Plato used to grumble about democracy: the son of old aristocracy just couldn’t stand the hoi polloi getting a say in running their own lives. Today’s elites are no less sour-pussed, when the filthy plebs reject yet another
As I wrote recently, The Truth Is Always True: a principle doesn’t change just because of your personal biases. This is as true of human rights as any other moral principle. Universal human rights are called that because they are universal: they apply to everyone, under all circumstances. They
The leftist echo chamber continues to shill for its own. Just last week, The BFD reported that disgraced former Canberra top prosecutor Shane Drumgold is now teaching law students at Canberra University. Even more galling, the lawyer who was found by two inquiries to have withheld evidence, and knowingly lied
So far in this series we’ve debunked the following “pro-Palestinian” propaganda: that the rapist butchers of Hamas are “resistance fighters”, the obvious stupidity of the Marxist claim that Jews are “settler colonialists” in their own homeland, and the obnoxiously false claims that Israel is an “apartheid state” which is
If you ask people who watch a lot of television who the smartest scientist in history was, they’ll almost certainly say either Stephen Hawking or, God help us, Neil deGrasse Tyson. If you’re lucky, they might recall Albert Einstein. But, while at least Hawking was undoubtedly very smart,
If someone suggested setting fire to a building that was already smouldering, in order to put the fire out, you’d rightly consider them crazy. If someone suffering from mild arsenic poisoning decided to chug a litre of it to cure themselves, you’d lock them up for their own
