(A response to: Strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system, University of Cambridge) About one hundred and…
I’d begun the voyage at three-thirty the prior night. After driving four hundred kilometres to Armidale, signing a lease, and…
For a satirist, Trump is a diamond encrusted 100% solid gold shitter. He is an overblown cartoon caricature of a…
Some revelations are plain discouraging. My back of the envelope calculations indicate that I am far more likely to die…
Once upon a time our unis were full of middle class poseurs wearing Che Guevara tee-shirts who were all airily…
You may have thought that the idea of kidnapping people off the street, flinging them into a dungeon, then ‘disappearing’…
The modern world sucks. You suck. Every one of my audience members is to blame. So fuck you all. Everybody…
Bits of the world are really good. I can see a really good bit right now, even as I type.…
Dear Consumer, We would like to make you an offer. You will not want to reject this offer. You have…
Sometimes I can’t keep up. The treadmill feels like it is moving too fast. At heart I am a bleeding-heart…
I like to rummage about in the back drawers of our culture, dig out a bunch of glittery gee-gaws and…
When I was a preteen, television was the essential escape vehicle, and the best rides were all made in America.…
According to reports, about half the people who say they have read Orwell’s 1984 are lying. Sometimes I wish I…
Back in the days of the cold war there was good reason to be frightened. The northern hemisphere was fair…
I have been working for several days now on a long and detailed rebuttal of everything that I most dislike…