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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsTaken For Granted, Phillipa Martyr — Quadrant Online
A rather longish essay on academic research grants (or boondoggles). You may want to scroll down a bit and go straight to the meat and potatoes to see how you tax dollars are being sprayed around on the obscure
read moreRandom Note — Nauru
It’s not as if those kids and their parents on Nauru have ever set foot on, lived in, or have any emotional or psychological connection to Australia and therefore pining to be reunited with something they have never known or experienced. More to the point, where is the cri de coeur of these activists when it comes to the rape of two year old children in remote Aboriginal communities
read moreTasmania and the gender warriors
If gender is deleted from birth certificates in Tasmania, why not names. Generally, names are a dead set giveaway as to the gender of a child.
read moreRandom Note — Climate change — Science Or Theology
Ten years ago I read a very lengthy column by Ian McFadyen “Our New Established Religion” in Quadrant where he compared the climate cult with organised religion. Reading it again, it is a very dense essay but his overall concept and comparison is brilliant and his...
read moreRandom Note — The Victoria Cross
The reference to “winning” is tacky and cheap, making it sound like a contest worthy of Eddie McGuire and late afternoon television.
read moreRandom Note — The Climate Hustle
Since the dawn of time, humanity has experienced all manner of likely lads, con artists, tricksters, spivs and purveyors of easy fixes and get rich quick schemes from the tulip bubble of the 16th century and Papal indulgences to assuage and ease the burden of guilt allowing the sinful to carry on sinning at a price, (think, carbon tax)
read moreThe ‘Broad Church’ and its Termites, Alan Moran — Quadrant
The broad church has undermined Liberal Party values by allowing an infiltration of members, some of whom are barely distinguishable from the green left. The broad-church policy paved the way for Rudd’s victory, which he facilitated by proclaiming himself a deregulator – a political chimera that fused the Liberal’s fiscal conservatism with Labor’s more human face. Chimeras are, of course, mythical creatures, as the resulting Rudd/Gillard/Rudd debacle established beyond doubt.
read moreRandom Note — White privilege — it’s not the message but the messenger that matters
That message should have come from the very top. With Pauline Hanson as the messenger it was always going to be characterised and sloughed off as just another Hanson stunt and lose its potency.
read moreRandom Note — Peter Van Onselen and the crazy five
Does Peter Van Onselen have to work at making seriously dumb observations or does it come naturally. Turnbull’s infamous five created the direct trail of breadcrumbs to the political, blind back alley, the Liberals find themselves this weekend. — By sun up on Sunday it is more likely than not they will have entered the strange, Gillard-esque world of minority government.
read moreRandom Note — The geopolitical Rubik’s Cube of the Middle East
When you cross the Muslim Brotherhood mafia mobsters with the Saudi mafia mobsters you get the worst of both worlds — A Hotel California situation, where “you can check out but you can never leave ”
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