We might never know but it has a smell about it.
Who will set the agenda for 16-year-old voters?
Let’s face it – there’s a lot of total and utter crap on the internet. We’ve all seen it; from genuinely insane conspiracy theories, to blatant propaganda, to outright lies from malicious activists. The web is chock-full and overflowing with tripe of the highest order, on just about every subject you could imagine. In fact, […]
Common sense prevails
There is nobody rational, on the whole planet, who seriously believes that tennis player Novak Djokovic poses any kind of health threat to the people of Australia.
Medical exemption was originally granted
You know, if you want to convince people to do something for you, it’s typically a bad idea to insult them, intentionally go out of your way to infuriate them, and figuratively tell them to kiss your ass. Apparently French President Emmanuel Macron missed that tip in media training. With the French presidential election just […]
Fuel poverty
One has to ask – if scenes of vicious police violence towards unarmed protesters had been witnessed at, say, a Black Lives Matter event, would we ever hear the end of it? Would it not roundly be condemned by every media outlet and politician in the Western world as a heinous breach of human rights, […]
Happy Kwanzaa
The percentage of those going regularly to church is quite small, maybe less than 10%
In 2003, American journalist Bill Moyers asked Bill Gates a question. Why, Moyers wanted to know, are you so passionate about reproductive issues? Gates considered. “But did you come to reproductive issues as an intellectual, philosophical pursuit?” Moyers pressed. “Or was there something that happened? [W]as there a revelation?” “When I was growing up, my parents were […]