-
Sign Up
-
Recent Posts
- Not all abortions are equal March 13, 2020
- Wisdom at Railway Square February 3, 2020
- Botched coup butchers Democrats January 31, 2020
- Fluid factism grips the world December 26, 2019
- Left-leaning leaders doom their parties December 15, 2019
Recent Comments
- Geraldine Allan on Wisdom at Railway Square
- Geraldine Allan on Fluid factism grips the world
- Liz on Why not Indonesia?
- andrew on Dysrationalia epidemic
- CANDICE HELLEN BROWN ELLIOTT on Dysrationalia epidemic
Author Archives: andrew
Not all abortions are equal
Andrew L. Urban Legal, safe and rare … or never, never, never? Abortion is and always has been a divisive issue largely because it is posited in absolutist terms. The subject – ever current – is always over-heated and always … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy and Justice
Leave a comment
Wisdom at Railway Square
Andrew L. Urban The incongruity made as much of an impact as the poster itself, on a wall along a few other posters in bustling Railway Square, one of Sydney’s least attractive environs. But I was most impressed with the … Continue reading
Botched coup butchers Democrats
Andrew L. Urban. The botched attempt at a coup against US President Donald Trump by the Democrats (and their anti-Trump supporters within the organs of the state) has become a grotesque nightmare for America. Born illegitimately without the vote required … Continue reading
Posted in Organisations And Groups
Leave a comment
Fluid factism grips the world
Andrew L. Urban For holiday reading I dived into non-fiction books filled with facts and hard evidence (cod, salt, volcanoes, earthquakes), to escape the woke fictions of today’s irrational world. Sex is fluid, climate science is wrangled to support opposing … Continue reading
Posted in By The Way
1 Comment
Left-leaning leaders doom their parties
Andrew L. Urban. The evidence is in. Jeremy Corbyn has done as Malcolm Turnbull almost did and Bill Shorten definitely did and Anthony Albanese is now doing: destroy the governing prospects of their parties – by leaning too far left. … Continue reading
Democrats on road to perdition
Andrew L. Urban. We are witnessing America’s arguably most destructive political convulsion as the Democrats’ move to impeach President Donald Trump. It is likely to end up as a valuable lesson in realpolitik for any party anywhere (including Australia) which … Continue reading
Posted in Should Know Better
Leave a comment
Climate change – as it really is
Andrew L. Urban. The most important and useful essay this year on climate change is an op-ed by Dr Judith Curry writing for a Madrid paper coinciding with COP25, the UN Climate Change Conference this week in Madrid. Not only … Continue reading
We are half reconciled
Andrew L. Urban. Senator Pat Dodson, often called the ‘father of reconciliation’, said last week that political leaders had failed to reconcile with indigenous people, despite doing so with nations Australia had gone to war with, such as Japan after … Continue reading
Posted in Making A Difference
Leave a comment
Book review: The Delinquent Teenager
Andrew L. Urban. A bravado metaphor captures the reader’s imagination from the opening sentence: “This book is about a spoilt child.” We know from the cover that the book is an ‘IPCC expose’, so we know that spoilt child … … Continue reading
Today in our world …
Andrew L. Urban. Things that may have happened in recent days or should have happened or maybe shouldn’t have happened or indeed shouldn’t happen … Melbourne City Council, not to be outdone by Sydney Mayor Clover Moore’s declaration of a … Continue reading
Posted in Humour and Democracy
Leave a comment