…for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
spoken by Hamlet in William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet - Act II, Scene 2
All in Hidden Agendas
Does Professor Tom Griffiths Have a Conflict of Interest in Reviewing Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu?
To maintain the faith of the public, Academia needs to hold and maintain high ethical standards.
Critics of Dark Emu fail to see Professor Pascoe's Brilliant Wordsmith Ability
Was Antonio Gramsci a Ghost Writer of Dark Emu?
Why we fall for cons
A uniform, a matter of Social Justice and an authoritative voice - faced with the right elements we are all vulnerable to elaborate scams.
Emperor Pascoe's Chinese Nirvana
Mr Pascoe shares a bleak comparison where, instead of Australia being colonised by the ‘cultured and kind Chinese’, we instead got the ‘cruel, almost barbaric Christians’. Are you disappointed Mr Pascoe? Really?
The Big Furphy - Make it Big and Frequently
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it” - Jonathan Swift
Is Dystopia at the Bottom of the Slippery Slope?
Conservatives are often criticized when they invoke the ‘slippery slope argument’ to point out the potential dangers of seemingly innocuous ‘socially-progressive’ ideas. But even ‘liberals’, if they are really being honest with themselves, must have some serious misgivings about the conflation of big business with state-sanctioned euthanasia.