Sky News marks Australia Day by killing history and logic

 At the end of a Catholic Mass, the priest bids the congregation farewell by telling parishoners "go in peace, to love and serve the Lord" to which those in the pews respond "thanks be to God."*

Now, imagine that a member of said congregation in attendance at Mass the previous Sunday was accused of committing a brutal murder the following Thursday. Under police questioning, the lead investigator tells our chruchgoer, "you can't account for your whereabouts at the time of the murder, your DNA was found under the victim's fingernails, and a bloody hammer was found in your car. How do you explain all this?" 

Our devoutly Catholic murderer explains "I couldn't possibly have done it. I was in church last Sunday, and the priest told us all sorts of things about loving our neighbours and told us to go in peace. No one could disobey such Godly commands!" 

Homicide detectives would roar with laughter at such a ridiculous turn of logic, but that's the logic of Sky News. 

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Anita Bryant dead; 2025 not all bad so far

 

Anita Bryant, one of the original culutre warriors, died last month at the age of 84. Bryant was an early anti LGBTQ influencer and reflecting on the national reaction to her one could gloomily conclude we've gone backwards No one's quite sure who is the original culture warrior - Shirley Temple, who protested sex in movies? Even if they did work out the title holder, any awards ceremony would be fraught; someone who find out the caterer hadn't cut off their trans sister and the entire thing would be a meltdown. 

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Curtis Yarvin: Alex Jones with hair

After years of semi-obscurity, blogger Curtis Yarvin, "philosopher of the Dark Elightenment" and bad kind of weirdo, is in the media spotlight as the seer, philospher and genius intellect behind the Silicon Valley broligarchs of the new Trump order. But in truth Curtis Yarvin is nothing special. He's Alex Jones with a larger vocabulary and a lot more hair.

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Go on, spoil yourself this Christmas. You deserve it.

With the end of year (Christmas/New Year/Summer/I know Aunt Bronwyn will start in again about my weight and childlessness and every year I tell myself I won't put up with her nonsense and every year I don a rictus smile, walk away and take a swig of Bundy) holidays upon us, the lucky of us are on holidays from work, which means a chance to catch up with relatives like Aunt Bronwyn; vow to fix that thing about the house and get as far as the Bunnings car park before seeing it's so crowded the laws of civilised parking have broken down and going home; or cursing that once again, you neglected to make plans to get out of the city.

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Link Wednesday - Enshitiffication is conditioning us to expect everything will be terrible (but Babe Paley was lovely)

 This terrible long read by Ed Zitron on the enshittification of the internet, apps, and everything we deal with all day, got my day off to a depressing start. 

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Boyd Kramer is a convicted rapist. He doesn't want you to know.

 This is Sydney man Boyd Kramer. He's from a wealthy family, a former national water polo player, and a convicted rapist.  On 14 February 2022, he was found guilty by a jury of one count of sexual intercourse without consent. He really doesn't want you to find out about that. Heck, you should probably stop reading this now. 

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Queensland, USA

Whoever wins the U.S. election, Queensland state election results show MAGA nonsense is already winning here.

 

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How anti-trans BS gets its wings

Anti trans groups cloak their bigotry in pseudo science, and rely on mainstream media too lazy or underfunded to fact check to get their word out. In truth they've adopted the SOP of Qanon, and deserve about as much credibility.

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Where the NRL failed (apart from in Las Vegas)

If aim of the NRL hosting the 2024 rugby league season opener in Las Vegas was to impress the Australian journalists they treated to lavish hospitality on a free trip to the States to watch the spectacle, they succeeded admirably. But if the NRL actually wanted to entice sports loving Americans to develop a passion for league, the endeavour was always doomed to failure. But there's a simple solution to get Americans to love rugby league.

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Anti drugs or just Anti-Semitic? Exposing Drug Free Australia

Drug Free Australia sound like a stand up bunch of people on the face of it. Keeping kids from trying drugs until they're no longer so child like is a noble aim, I think we could all agree, even if in one's most exhausted, stressed out moments of parenthood the desire to sedate your kids has briefly flashed across your mind. 

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