I'm sure the very notion of fact-checking Tucker Carlson of Fox News (in)fame(y) is akin to King Canute trying to hold back the tide... but sometimes these right-wing, ignorant fuckers just get under my skin with their inflammatory mis/dis-information

Take his latest reported outburst for example...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has unleashed over ( Read more... )

As stated in this Journal before, I have zero interest in the current British Royal Family dramas. Never have, never will...

But - at the local supermarket with L-SP this morning, I couldn't help but notice this cover of one of those trash-mags aimed at bored housewives who never let the facts get in the way of a good story. In fact, the less facts ( Read more... )

And it comes, as no surprise, from the Murdoch global media 'empire'...

Global warming is fake, climate change is fake, 'Greenies' are communists, coal is good, greed is better...

Proof that, as Terry Pratchett often wrote in his books, 'A lie can get halfway around the world, before the Truth has got its boots on...'

With the book review out of the way... here is some good news:

Here Comes The Monsoon!. The weather pattern that has dried out Australia & made it nothing more than a fuel-supply kit for bushfires, has at last weakened & the Monsoon has started in our North... Hopefully this means some rain, or at least cooler, moist air will head down south where ( Read more... )