Grubsheet no longer gets invited to most Sydney dinner parties because we're always getting into fights with other people's guests about climate change. Insults are hurled, woman cry and their male escorts lunge for our throats. And all because we have the temerity to point out some of the glaring inconsistencies in the arguments of the true … [Read more...] about #3 CONTORTIONS OF THE TRUE BELIEVERS IN CLIMATE CHANGE
# 2. THE REAL STENCH AROUND JULIAN ASSANGE
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may well be someone totally unconcerned with personal hygiene, as some of those who've been in close proximity to him maintain. It's neither here nor there for those of us keen to keep our distance from this strangely unsettling character, with his Mogadon manner and haughty self-righteousness. Yet there's something … [Read more...] about # 2. THE REAL STENCH AROUND JULIAN ASSANGE
# 1. A TROGLODYTE’S LAST STAND
Paul Howes is one of the self-confessed faceless men who made Julia Gillard Prime Minister yet is now doing everything he can to unmake her with a crude attack on mining giant Rio Tinto that has astonished much of the labour movement. In a fiery speech to his members, the 29-year old national secretary of the Australian Workers' Union declared … [Read more...] about # 1. A TROGLODYTE’S LAST STAND