Category Archives: Politics

Beyond a Gaffe

Posted on November 17, 2024 by JC

gaffe (noun) 1. A social or diplomatic blunder Merriam-Webster The other day I noticed an article concerning a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly referring to AI (artificial intelligence) as “A-One” for an entire speech presented to the National Tech … Continue reading →

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The Return of the Trump

Posted on November 10, 2024 by JC

It has been some years since I wrote about Donald Trump or American politics in general. I first started this blog in late 2015 when the events that culminated in the 2016 election of Donald Trump were unfolding. A lot … Continue reading →

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Going Deeper with BioShock

Posted on July 16, 2024 by JC

BioShock was released in August 2007 on PC, Xbox 360 and later PlayStation 3. While this was a few years into the console generation, it was one of the games that really defined it; as indeed did a number of … Continue reading →

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Trouble in Babylon

Posted on May 15, 2024 by JC

I have held off writing about the incident in Australia’s Parliament House involving two staffers Brittany Higgins and Bruce Lehrmann that became public in 2021. As I have repeatedly stated in other posts, I don’t follow mainstream news so this … Continue reading →

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Unauthorized Anthropology

Posted on March 10, 2024 by JC

Down Among the Wild Men: A narrative journal of fifteen years pursuing the Old Stone Age Aborigines of Australia by John Greenway, Hutchinson of Australia, January 1st, 1973 This is a book I picked up a while ago very shortly … Continue reading →

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The Quick Expiry of Transgression

Posted on January 21, 2024 by JC

This post will be somewhat similar in theme to two earlier posts I’ve made concerning music. One was from 2021 where I briefly commented on how entirely hollow the “rebellious” image of many bands are. The two examples were Twisted … Continue reading →

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Peter Hitchens versus Gamma

Posted on October 15, 2023 by JC

I came across this interview that was put into my YouTube feed (I don’t have an account but my viewing habits are still noticed by the infernal algorithm), which was a recent interview with Peter Hitchens. I find Hitchens interesting … Continue reading →

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No.

Posted on October 8, 2023 by JC

As I write, there is just under a week until the Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia on Saturday the 14th of October. This is the first referendum in over twenty years and the first since I became eligible to … Continue reading →

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Reluctant World Domination

Posted on September 23, 2023 by JC

Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan, Random House, July 28th, 2009 This is a continuation of my journey into the alternative history of World War … Continue reading →

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It’s immigration, stupid!

Posted on June 23, 2023 by JC

Australia is in terms of landmass, a very large country but the population has always been relatively small and as of writing is somewhere north of twenty five million people. If you don’t include Alaska, it is comparable in landmass … Continue reading →

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