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Maaate! You look like a dork
We all talk about politics a lot and while it is deathly boring at times, we persist because it is important shit. Who runs what, how, and why, are all biggies. But the language and […]
Articles by Dr James Moylan
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Lest we forget
Uncle Ray Minniecon is an Aboriginal Elder and a veteran. As he was presiding over the Welcome to Country ceremony at the Anzac Dawn service in Sydney, a small group of people began booing. His […]
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The big human brain
The whole proposition of a massive hunk of brain-flesh that is capable of introspective reflection, inside a body, inside a culture, doing the washing up, while shouting at the kids, is ludicrous. But there it […]
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The irresistible cultural imperative: how tourism keeps reinventing society
Tourism and civilisation are intimately linked. But tourism is much more robust. Warfare, drought, famine, earthquake, and tsunami are just minor inconveniences. The Russian, Mongol, and Qing dynasties, like the Persian, Roman, English, and American […]
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The greedy ape: why catastrophe is inevitable
Part 1: The chimpanzee sex conundrum When you banish the rather odd concept of humankind as a golden twig protruding from the very top of the tree of life, and instead start comparing and contrasting […]
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Living the dream – the ‘Lumpenproletariat’
The One Nation ‘Policy Development’ officer was suffering through yet another minor existential crisis. At one o’clock in the morning, seated at his desk, at home, with the rest of the world securely locked outside, […]
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The good book is not good medicine
I was a very crook 16-year-old kid, lying in a cot in the detox ward of the Bridge Centre in Sydney, when a Captain of the Salvation army pulled a chair up to my bed […]
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George Orwell was an optimist
As a species, we have come a long way. It all started with a stone age. Then after a bronze, iron, industrial and plastic period, we stumbled into an information age. All of which illustrates […]
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Welcoming our esteemed visitors from Planet X
(A response to: Strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system, University of Cambridge) About one hundred and forty-seven light years south of us, circling a huge old red dwarf star, is a […]
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On the Armidale Road
I’d begun the voyage at three-thirty the prior night. After driving four hundred kilometres to Armidale, signing a lease, and picking up a moving van, I’d driven it back to Lismore. All before piling my […]
Satire
Worrying about everything, all the time, for fun and profit
For a satirist, Trump is a diamond encrusted 100% solid gold shitter. He is an overblown cartoon caricature of a populist leader. The sort of clownish character that might have been dreamt up in a […]
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Random signals from planet Trump
Some revelations are plain discouraging. My back of the envelope calculations indicate that I am far more likely to die in a plane accident than I am to win lotto. Perhaps if I play lotto […]
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“Waiter! There’s a Trump in my soup!”
Once upon a time our unis were full of middle class poseurs wearing Che Guevara tee-shirts who were all airily declaring that ‘everything is political, man.’ Much has changed, today our unis are full of […]
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Postcards from the uncivil war
You may have thought that the idea of kidnapping people off the street, flinging them into a dungeon, then ‘disappearing’ them, was entirely old hat. So, arguing about this sort of thing probably declined sometime […]
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Where is the gonzo?
The modern world sucks. You suck. Every one of my audience members is to blame. So fuck you all. Everybody is a f*n journalist and nobody can write for shit. Consequently, we have all become […]