Okay, he is a computer techie – people who take on godlike characteristics when one is experiencing technical problems with these black box thingies called ‘computers’. As you have gathered Jacques has fixed catallaxy – thank you Jacques – and given...

Great op-ed from the UK Telegraph on the lightbulb ban in the US vis-a-vis the UK (and Australia too). At the more domestic level, the proposed ban on incandescent light bulbs, so supinely accepted in this servile state of Britain, is now provoking a...

This is a fantastic paragraph from the Financial Times. Democratic publics are not science faculties. Most of those who urge teaching creationism, instead of evolution, in high-school biology classes, for instance, could not explain Darwin’s theory...

Let’s assume that Rudd gets a double dissolution, the Libs are massacred (not for their climate change policies, but because they are disunited) and (this is the tricky bit) the Greens get the balance of power in the Senate. Let’s not argue how likely...