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About Dr James Moylan
Dr James Moylan – LLB (Hon), BA (Culture), Dr of Phil (Law, SCU) – lives in Lismore, NSW. Dr JiMM has variously been a skid row alcoholic (age 13-27), a Journalist, a Sugar Train Driver, and a researcher on the heritage age god and mineral fields in central Queensland. He has also run a Public Relations firm (Radio Mango Productions, Mackay), has been admitted to the roll of legal practitioners as a solicitor (Qld, 2014), was the President of (the short lived) independent Student Union at Southern Cross University (LEXUS – 2011/2), and is one of the co-founders of the HEMP Party in Australia (along with Micheal Balderstone). Dr JiMM has been happily married to the same gorgeous lady (Sharon) for more than three decades and has one adult daughter (Tayla).
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AIM Extra

I can’t complain: I am not a property owner, or a landlord

12 March 2025 Dr James Moylan 3
Bits of the world are really good. I can see a really good bit right now, even as I type. In the lane behind my house magpies are fighting over a scrap of bread and […]
Red and blue hats on store shelves.
Satire

You are strongly advised to STOCK UP ON TRUMP MERCH NOW!

25 February 2025 Dr James Moylan 8
Dear Consumer, We would like to make you an offer. You will not want to reject this offer. You have received this piece of correspondence because the US federal government loves you deeply and dearly […]
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Politics

The art of living in interesting times

22 February 2025 Dr James Moylan 1
Sometimes I can’t keep up. The treadmill feels like it is moving too fast. At heart I am a bleeding-heart namby-pamby liberal pussy. Consequently, I find it virtually impossible to not overly worry about matters […]
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Politics

Clenching my buttocks & keeping it short ‘n light

19 February 2025 Dr James Moylan 10
I like to rummage about in the back drawers of our culture, dig out a bunch of glittery gee-gaws and trinkets, and then play with them in public. I have been called a ‘Cultural Commentator’ […]
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Politics

About the All-American Easy-Watching Super-Sexy Turbo-Charged Dreamtime Machine

16 February 2025 Dr James Moylan 26
When I was a preteen, television was the essential escape vehicle, and the best rides were all made in America. Every afternoon I would race home from school for my daily two-hour outing on the […]
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Politics

The closing days of the pax American

15 February 2025 Dr James Moylan 14
According to reports, about half the people who say they have read Orwell’s 1984 are lying. Sometimes I wish I was one of them. The story has ever after haunted my dreams. The final paragraph […]
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AIM Extra

A warning against shameful non-worrying

13 February 2025 Dr James Moylan 6
Back in the days of the cold war there was good reason to be frightened. The northern hemisphere was fair bristling with weapons of mass destruction and it was still possible to sneak up on […]
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Politics

I don’t know…

11 February 2025 Dr James Moylan 7
I have been working for several days now on a long and detailed rebuttal of everything that I most dislike about the current media circus. It will be completed about six weeks after I am […]
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Politics

Election 2025: Who let the dogs out?

4 February 2025 Dr James Moylan 10
Before we all plunge into electioneering mode I would like to say a few things about the piss-poor political choices available in Australia, as well as the piss-poor political discussions that we are all about […]
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Politics

Right-wing fantasy meets the brick wall of reality

2 February 2025 Dr James Moylan 27
Trump spent the last two years making an awful lot of promises. He’s gunna instantly end every war on the planet. He’s gunna fire half the public service. He’s gunna eliminate any spending he doesn’t […]
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Politics

Dear Uncle Sam

19 January 2025 Dr James Moylan 7
Dear Uncle Sam, We have had our ups and downs over the years. At your best you have been charming, respectful and helpful. But you have changed. You have become ugly and crass. I just […]
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Politics

Postcards from the Post-election American Apocalypse

3 January 2025 Dr James Moylan 3
Drones Drones are the flavor of the month. Every US media outlet is currently obsessed with drones whizzing through the urban nightscape. As thick as houseflies, journalists gather in giddy packs around selected NooJoysee citizens. […]

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