8 July, 2008

Brendan Nelson’s demeanour and moral purpose

By The Editor
Cross posted at GrodsCorp
Brendan Nelson has withdrawn the coalition’s support for an emissions trading scheme in the absence of similar schemes in the USA, China and India — a “pre-Howard position on climate change” as one journalist beautifully put it. Despite the fact that developing countries are never going to consider emissions trading [...]

4 July, 2008

Quote of the year

By The Editor
Cross posted at GrodsCorp
In Bolt’s world there’s Left, there’s Right, and then there’s Bolt.
“…I’m not of the Right or even far Right. I’d certainly say so if I were. Try conservative.”
Reminds me of Andy’s famous Left/Right/Anarchy theory.
…there is no arc between Left and Right - the extremes of both tend to huddle together [...]

4 July, 2008

What hubris?

By The Editor
Cross posted at GrodsCorp
Oh dear. Andrew Bolt has gone into martyr overdrive today in celebrating the ten year anniversary of his column in the Herald Sun.
Here’s yet another page or more of me telling you what I think. Such arrogance.
And the worst is that this has been going on for a decade. In [...]

4 July, 2008

Grade nine stats

Guest post by Andrew Rose
Just thought I’d bring this comedy to everyone’s attention, and in particular Andrew Bolt’s skills in “graphical analysis” - ie: picking two arbitrary start and end points to support his point of view (completely ignoring the fact that these graphs indicate an increase in the mean over time).
NASA warming preacher James [...]

14 June, 2008

Bolt’s shame

By The Editor
Cross-posted at GrodsCorp
Andrew Bolt has spent the last couple of weeks valiantly defending Channel Nine’s bigot-in-residence, Sam Newman, against an overwhelming tide of public opinion. Bolta doesn’t like they way them evil lefties at the network have told Newman he can’t return to The Footy Show unless he attends counselling for his wimin-hatin’ [...]

31 May, 2008

Slushy happiness?

By The Editor
You know Timmeh’s brilliant argument that if it snows in one place around the world on a given day or if a city experiences a week of unseasonably cold weather then the theory of climate change is comprehensively disproven?
Well this argument makes his climate change one look positively scientific.
Refugee advocate Marion Le is [...]

12 May, 2008

Comparing apples and out-of-season oranges

Guest post by Toaf
Tim Blair’s jihad against Tim Flannery continues. Today Blair’s picked up on a report which suggests that global warming (which doesn’t exist anyway) will enhance Australia’s agricultural output over the coming few decades.
Warming (which doesn’t exist anyway), he declares, will cause “fooding”. So it seems that global warming (which doesn’t exist anyway) [...]

12 May, 2008

Tim Blair’s winged monkeys are revolting

By The Editor
Cross-posted at GrodsCorp
Blogger and Daily Telegraph opinion editor, Timmeh Blair, has struck a deal with his employer for the right to do officially what most bloggers do on the sly: blog on work time using work bandwidth. Blair this morning announced that he will be moving his extremely popular blogging activities from timblair.net [...]

12 May, 2008

True love spurned

By The Editor
I’ve got to admit that I almost feel sorry for Andrew Bolt. Watching Gordon Ramsay on television a few weeks ago he fell in love. There was something about Gordon Ramsay — a man’s man with conservative values and masculine pride — that made Bolta’s heart beat a little faster.
I like particularly the [...]

8 May, 2008

As revisionist as communism

Guest post by The Happy Revolutionary

Bolt has plumbed new depths of ignorance today with an attempt to draw parallels between the Federal ALP’s new ‘alcopop’ tax, and Soviet Russia. Apparently, since the tax was introduced, there has been a ’surge’ in thefts of the alcopops, leading Bolt to deduce that the ALP policy ‘not [...]