The End.

Oh ok, in our ‘news feed’ between Pauline’s latest brain fart and American football entertaining a big crowd in Melbourne, … More

Gambling Gargantua

Which metaphor best describes the parasitic and perniciously harmful effects of the outsized gambling industry on Australian society and our … More

Capitalism Rules, ok?

SpaceX shares floated just last week and have since ‘slumped’ US$800 billion in value, which is equal to the GDP … More

*To the Moon, Ayatollah!

What an extraordinary juxtaposition of US mastery and impotence on display today. Irony does not begin to describe the yawning … More

Immigration & Politics

During the last Australia Day so-called celebrations we again had the spectacle of One Nation, proxy neo-Nazis and Nationals all … More

Howzat Howard!

Since we’re talking about shortcomings of Australian PMs, a recent release of Federal Cabinet papers from 2005 definitively nails one … More

Albo the Abdicator

PM Anthony Albanese has an uninspiring, slippery character, honed by a lifetime of political practice, the dark arts of Labor … More

Democracy Dump (by) Trump

Planet-threatening DDT is sprayed worldwide by one unhinged individual following his base authoritarian ‘instincts’. That last word comes from the … More

Fester Season (Revised)

(My original piece has been revised below, as I’ve reconsidered crime numbers in the light of Mark Twain’s famous maxim … More

Trumped Again

Think of the time we all wasted before the recent US elections reading poll experts and pundits all agreeing that … More