The left media have attention spans which make goldfish seem like wellsprings of ancient wisdom. Unless it happened on their TikTok feed in the last hour, it’s as remote on their consciousness as the Sack of Nineveh. For instance, when the Morrison government was dumped, the MSM were cock-a-whoop
You’ve got to hand it to the Albanese government: they’re on the ball. It’s been nearly six months since the High Court’s “NZYQ” ruling, and Labor’s panicked rush to set loose hundreds of violent, depraved foreign-born criminals. Labor are still dithering about what to do.
Only a mainstream media journalist could argue that a decline in general intelligence is a good thing. Probably because, if everybody else dumbs down, the numbnuts in the media might finally have something to feel good about themselves. Of course, we, ah, ‘more experienced’ folks always like to think that
There’s a reason my First Law of the Media is Never Believe a Headline. Headlines have always been designed to be catchy, to engage the reader’s interest and get them to pick up the paper and read it. What was true in the print era is still true:
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, the obnoxiously false claims that Israel is an ‘apartheid state’ that is committing
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
