Barack Obama was intelligent, highly educated, literate, erudite, personable, witty and seemed to have a happy family. The fact that he was also black led some to believe that, with…
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I recently spoke to a right wing person who, of course, was a big Trump fan. Let’s call the person FW. After a succession of mild abuse, we got onto…
I and some others bumped into a moon-landing denier today, and I was impressed with a Facebook reply by Chris Ward. This is taken and slightly modified from that post….
The Avid Reader Bookshop in Brisbane was trolled by people, when the bookshop shared a Facebook post from Australian feminist writer Clementine Ford announcing she had been contracted to write…
Often in the newspaper you will see it stated that some scientific theory has been proven. That is impossible. Scientific theories cannot be proven, only disproven or shown to be…
Conservatives and libertarians often moan about the ‘nanny state’ when it impinges on something they would like to do; smoke indoors, drink to excess, ride bikes without a helmet, driving…
There is a misapprehension in the wider world, spread by advertising that businesses are there to serve the general populace (‘service is our middle name’, ‘we are here to help’…
The recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) national accounts for the March Quarter have shown that real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by a pathetic 0.3% during that quarter and…
