Oh well, if The Age aren't going to publish my Thatcher rant, I will:

Jan White (Letters, 11 Apr) is heavily misguided if she believes that Thatcher was one of Britain's greatest leaders. For whom? By any metric 70% of Brits cared about, she was one of the worst. Any harmony, strength of character and respect Brits may be missing now would be ( Read more... )

Another letter in The Age today. Unedited text below:

Ian Porter (Without car manufacturing, we are on the road to ruin, The Age, 13 Jan) believes that the government needs to keep throwing money at the car industry in order to support other industry in Australia. I'm surprised as an industry analyst, he hasn't heard of the broken window fallacy ( Read more... )

Hrrrfm. The Age didn't publish my letter:

I find it a bit rich that the police union are upset that information ( Read more... )

Another slightly edited letter published in The Age today. Maybe I should become a media mogul. Original here:
I've just come back from a tour of Europe. Wind farms are everywhere. Near tourist attractions, and along roads where it is particularly windy. Anywhere appropriate, and especially near townships and individual houses, because that's ( Read more... )

I've always been a crazy cat man who sends letters to the editor and his local parliamentary representitatives. Except that I have no cat. Anyway, a shortened version of this letter was published in The Age today.

Dear Sir/Madam (CCed my State local member, and The Age letters ( Read more... )

It seems that Senator Carr didn't like the frank and fearless advice his public servants were offering him, and the Chief Scientist's position became untenable. Sure, you're not meant to offer that frank and fearless advice through the media, but what's the point of a having a chief scientist or indeed any publicly paid scientist if they're only ( Read more... )

I donated towards the Black Saturday fires, and then the donation policy of Red Cross became "we'll forward donations to people with insurance and people with holiday homes that got burned down". I wanted my money to go to people who can't afford to pay for insurance, and certainly to people who can't afford holiday and investment homes. Insurance ( Read more... )

Yikes. I'm reading Clive Hamilton's "Requiem for a species. Why we resist the truth about Climate Change". (all tyops are mine)

To date, governments have shunned geoengineering for fear of being accused of wanting to avoid their responsibilities with science fiction solutions. The topic is not mentioned in the Stern report and receives only one ( Read more... )

I've got a higher respect for ex-leader of the ALP, Mark Latham than I currently do have for Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Attorney-General Robert McClelland.

Conga line of suckholes indeed.

I was given a new explanation for climate change yesterday. A couple of guys had heard from the old timers (read, senile old fools) that the sun used to set in a different location when they were kids living in the same house, so the Earth must be tilting. When I explained that astronomers can pick up unexpected changes at the level of about 1/ ( Read more... )