Peter Dutton thinks that Andrew Thorburn should be re-instated, and not just because Dan Andrews thought that removing him was a good idea. No, it’s like I said: religious institutions have the right to consider religious views when hiring and firing, but nobody else does.
Source: Do The Saints Keep Losing Because Jesus’ Father Didn’t Marry His Mum… – » The Australian Independent Media Network
My thought for the day
Why do we, as a supposedly enlightened society, need to enshrine in legislation the right to hate each other? That isn’t enlightenment at all. ( John Lord )
Racism and all its ugliness: Murdoch’s and Bolt’s part in it
I first wrote about the literary work of Andrew Bolt in 2013. The convenor of a writing group I had joined asked us to give our opinions of his penmanship.
I cannot remember precisely what I verbalised then, but it would not have been pleasant. It might have gone something like this; Andrew Bolt neither challenges the mind nor his argument with a word or sentence. It’s obvious he writes for money.
Source: Racism and all its ugliness (Part two) - » The Australian Independent Media Network
A vanishingly small group of neo-Nazis protested a family-friendly event in Moonee Ponds last weekend.
Source: How the media helps neo-Nazi child ‘groomers’
Kenny is such a lazy journalist he says anything for effect. He claimed Nauru detention centre was a tropical “holiday resort” he’d happily take his family to. He didn’t even apply for permission to do so. Big mouth small foot always deep in it.
But the IPA warriors might have saved their outrage for another day if they had just read the fine print. It was not the content of their ad that was the problem.
Facebook’s rules require ads which have political content to carry a “disclaimer, disclosure and ad labelling”. From the Heart, the campaign for the voice to parliament, had an ad removed earlier for the same reason.
Source: Sky News’ Chris Kenny fails to read fine print over Facebook’s IPA ‘censorship’ | Amanda Meade | The Guardian
After Ian hit Florida, Fox insisted there’s no link between hurricanes and climate change, recycling the same talking points and guests it’s used for every major hurricane in the last six years
Fox trots out same climate denial narrative for every major hurricane that hits the US
Ron DeSantis, is the governor of Florida, although he’s this Trumpian, maybe alternative to Trump from the right wing, was educated at the best schools in America. What is it? Harvard and Yale.
Jim Mamer: Harvard.
Scheer: And yet he mangled history so badly, and in your column, you raised a question of whether it was out of ignorance or malice or what have you, but really, tell us about the state of historical knowledge among young, well, any Americans. You’ve been at it for a long time and you just pointed out these blatant errors. So let’s go there. Do we Americans really know anything about our history, the world’s history, and whose fault is it?
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