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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 […]
Articles by Dr James Moylan
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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 […]
Satire
“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 […]
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I can’t complain: I am not a property owner, or a landlord
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 […]
Satire
You are strongly advised to STOCK UP ON TRUMP MERCH NOW!
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 […]
Politics
The art of living in interesting times
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 […]
Politics
Clenching my buttocks & keeping it short ‘n light
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’ […]
Politics
About the All-American Easy-Watching Super-Sexy Turbo-Charged Dreamtime Machine
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 […]
Politics
The closing days of the pax American
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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A warning against shameful non-worrying
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 […]