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Friday, March 17, 2017

Day 7, and The Australian's art department is ready for tomorrow's eulogy (number 49 in a series) on Bill Leak...

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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Controversy about the Pope, again (and I missed a conservative Catholic disclosure)

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Pope Francis Sneaks Leftovers To False God Moloch At Back Door Of St. Peter’s Basilica VATICAN CITY—Quickly scanning the alley to mak...

Move to Brisbane

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The problem with government getting too involved in trying to push people to where government thinks they should live is that it rarely seem...
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That tax return

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John Cassidy at the New Yorker looks at the matter of the Trump tax return (partial) leak.  It is a curious thing - the leak has largely ...

Ethics, Monsanto style

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From NPR: Two years ago, a U.N.-sponsored scientific agency declared that the popular weedkiller glyphosate probably causes cancer. That f...

Trouble in Steyn-land

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Even if you only casually follow what Mark Steyn is up to now, you might be aware that he tried to make a mark in American Right wing cable ...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Gas explainer

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I thought this fairly lengthy explanation of what has happened with Australian gas (and why we don't seem to have enough here - or enou...

Culture wars noted

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*  Talk about your over-compensation.   Days after his death, News Ltd folk are still singing the praises of  the outstanding work and chara...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Pepsi endorsed

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I really like the new Pepsi Max Vanilla.   That is all...

Alien conjecture

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A planet sized radio source to power a light sail is causing mysterious fast radio bursts?  I'm finding that a bit of a stretch...

A quick Spielberg

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I think this is good news : Just last week, it was announced that  20th Century Fox and Amblin Entertainment were quickly rounding up ta...

More on Catholic in-fighting

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Is Pope Francis really facing a coup? Or just ‘fake news’? The article leans more to the "fake news" view: Several curial offi...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Could help explain something

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Bill Leak obviously had a lot of friends, on the Left and Right, and but even so there has been a somewhat extraordinary amount of column sp...
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Developments in the afterlife

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Peter Whiteford tweeted a link to a review of an interesting sounding book review in New Humanist (a journal I'm not in the habit of no...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Death and sorghum

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There's a short transcript of (parts of) an interview up at NPR with an American comedian who I'm not aware of, but who has taken t...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Scratching mice

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Just a test, posting a page from Science magazine, about how scratching is "contagious" amongst mice, as with humans. Oh, that ...
Friday, March 10, 2017

About Bill Leak

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There are sufficient numbers of people of Left inclination on Twitter saying that Bill Leak was smart and funny in real life to make me not ...
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Hey Jason...

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I don't think Thiel sounds all that bright, really.   Not just because of climate change (although my  rule of thumb about that still ap...
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Krugman's take

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Krugman has taken a very dispassionate tone on this column on the Republican health plan .  I presume he is correct.
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Ryan's lost his lustre

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Paul Krugman has complained bitterly for years that Paul Ryan's treatment by much of the media as the Republican's reasonable and mo...
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