Tag Archives: meet a blog

Global warming a hoax? No, the hoax claim is a hoax…

Posted on November 11, 2007 by

Interesting. See Global warming a hoax? No, the hoax claim is a hoax. Rush Limbaugh fell for it, though, as did several others who profess to be skeptical of global warming.

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Meet a blog

Posted on October 21, 2007 by

In this case I stumbled upon the blog in question via Perry Middlemiss’s Matilda which I had consulted when putting up the last Friday Australian poem. I soon found that The Happy Antipodean and I had much in common, except that he … Continue reading →

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This is interesting…

Posted on October 16, 2007 by

I’m not an avid science fiction or fantasy reader, but neither am I a hater of such work. While I had never heard of writer Darryl Sloan, therefore, I am sure many will have.

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Remember when private armies were considered evil?

Posted on October 11, 2007 by

You don’t have to be very old to recall a time when the only private armies we heard about were shady operations somewhere in Africa… Not any more of course. I came across a good post on the matter via … Continue reading →

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Racism and racists and The Plonker’s latest foot-in-mouth attack

Posted on October 8, 2007 by

I have been giving much thought to Jim Belshaw’s post Race and racism in Australia. He is quite right to say that pseudoscientific racism, the kind that was official policy in Nazi Germany and more widely accepted elsewhere in the … Continue reading →

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I’ll watch this with interest

Posted on September 28, 2007 by

Jim Belshaw has more blogs than I do, I think… This one he made “absent-mindedly” back in August with a “call for volunteers”. He has now found a rather interesting one with impeccable Surry Hills connections. Perhaps I should join, … Continue reading →

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