27 September, 2015

Thinking of linking

This week I have been mostly reading...

Australia:
Joe Hockey in line for plum post, despite being a political loser who was almost sacked

Chris Brown concert tour posters replaced after Melbourne activists' 'I beat women' sticker campaign

Cory Bernardi: new right wing party could challenge Liberals - Would probably raise the collective IQ of both parties.

A sour, bitter episode, Tony Abbott’s career will cast a long and oppressive shadow

Peta Credlin breaks silence, slams media’s ‘tripe and bile’

The victims and casualties of Peta Credlin’s wrath

Tony Abbott's policy muddle was clear to all

Tony Abbott's department discussed investigation into Bureau of Meteorology over global warming exaggeration claims, FOI documents reveal

Bronwyn Bishop voted against Tony Abbott because he’d forced her out as Speaker

There's a righteous impatience to this newly empowered electorate "Maybe this is instability. Maybe it's democracy."

Xenophon takes aim at Turnbull

Sexism isn't responsible for Peta Credlin's own failures

Peta Credlin: Everyone to blame but a failure of a chief of staff

Hand the power of preferences back to the people

Guess who really stopped the boats? (hint: not Abbott)

Dear Scott, here's the way to go

A new leader does not cover up a $20 billion budget hole

How Tony Abbott's government was the least productive since 1971 

Bidding farewell to Peta Credlin, the woman who broke all Canberra's rules 

US:
Ahmed Mohamed's parents handed out pizza to reporters outside their home Worst. Terrorists. Ever!

GOP's Muslim moment: why Trump, Carson are so unsettling to party

Fact-checking Martin Shkreli's claim that Daraprim is 'underpriced, relative to its peers' (Spoiler: False!)

World:
Caught on camera: The moment Peter Greste learnt of pardons in Egypt

Young suicide bomber weeps before final mission

Yazidi woman raped by 'American jihadi' to testify to Congress

Russia exhumes bones of murdered Tsar Nicholas and wife

Fact-checking the link between climate change and ISIS (Spoiler: Mostly true)

Media:
Liberal leadership spill coup sparks News Corp 'civil war' More popcorn!

The war between Donald Trump and Fox News is back on

Music:
Morrissey says 'there is no need for me to say goodbye' as he plays 'final' UK gig in London. Says there is no point touring if he can't get a record deal

Album rescue series: Aerial by Kate Bush

Don Henley In Conversation With Billy Joel

Something Changed: Pulp's Different Class Revisited

Frank Zappa And Zubin Mehta Talk Music

Animals:
Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history

Science:
A camera fast enough to show the speed of light! 

This Slug Has Such a Big Penis It Has to Mate Upside Down

Pluto’s surface looks like “dragon scales” in NASA’s new high-res colour photos

Tech:
How PowerPoint is killing critical thought 

History:
Why Brave New World is No Longer the Terrifying Dystopia it Used to Be

Humour and satire:
An Australia Out Fax

Halal Linked To Terrorism By Complex Series Of Imaginary Connections In Cory Bernardi’s Head, Enquiry Finds

I got stupid on me and now I need to wipe it off on you:
The Science Behind Richard Dawkins’ Problem with Ahmed Mohamed

Radicalisation Awareness Kit: Government's new booklet for schools links green activism, 'alternative music' to terrorism

Tony Abbott: my legacy the key to victory at next election

The least boring photo on my camera roll:



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