Australians should be embarrassed that one of our major political parties is so scientifically and economically ignorant and stupid. Worse, it should be frightened that one of our major political parties would for base male-fide reasons promote such a policy.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8642007/the-folly-of-peter-duttons-nuclear-power-argument/
Crispin Hull
May 28, 2024
Trump exploited low and middle-income white people's anger over their deteriorating life prospects to mobilise racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support for policies that benefit high-income people and corporations and threaten health. His signature legislative achievement, a trillion-dollar tax cut for corporations and high-income individuals, opened a budget hole that he used to justify cutting food subsidies and health care. His appeals to racism, nativism, and religious bigotry have emboldened white nationalists and vigilantes, and encouraged police violence and, at the end of his term in office, insurrection. [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/abstract]
S. Woolhandler et al.
April 27, 2024
[TV Channel] Seven has stations everywhere - a massive platform with free-to-air into so many regional areas. And it has buggered things up comprehensively. I am not sure how viewers could ever again trust what's screened. This week showed us - again - that the best thing you can do to protect your reputation is not to be an utter arsehole. [https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8596279/jenna-price-the-sins-of-channel-seven-and-why-they-matter/?cs=14258]
Jenna Price
April 21, 2024
I suggest, if the Leader of the Opposition wants us to go down the nuclear road, he should stop having meltdowns.
Anthony Albanese
March 26, 2024
[On Scott Morrison] History will record, and many will now recall his many failings – his cravenness and inaction in the face of adversity, his ducking of accountability, his claiming of the success of others, his malice and bullying, repurposing taxpayers’ money to cronies and right-wing supplicants – all manifestations of his lack of character.
A shrivelled, one-dimensional intellect, a light-weight incapable of reflection or forethought with underlying smarm and personality defects, mentored by a proselytizing grifter and informed by an eagle painting he was impervious to self-reflection – comfortable in the belief he was the Chosen One.
In his departing sermon presented as a valedictory speech he professed “faith in Jesus Christ, which gives me the faith to both forgive but also to be honest about my own failings and shortcomings” which he then failed to be honest about by neglecting to mention any.
Manifestly unsuited to the job he is a study in how megalomania, verbal diarrhea, treachery and happenstance can reward a shameless fabulist and serial failure.
[https://theaimn.com/heres-ya-hat-whats-ya-hurry]
Grumpy Geezer
February 28, 2024
Christofascists are like the Taliban but with pork and alcohol.
Anonymous
February 23, 2024
Religion belongs to a very early stage of human development, and ... its rapid decay in the world since the Reformation is evidence of genuine progress.
H. L. Mencken
January 18, 2024
Those who are stupid enough to think that their genetic makeup will be altered by Covid vaccines should welcome the opportunity.
Anonymous
January 13, 2024
The idea that the poor should have leisure and a holiday from work has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion.
Bertrand Russell
December 31, 2023
[Libertarians are like] house cats. They are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand.
