On Project Glass: The Future That No One Wants
"Want to see something cool?"
"Yeah.. no... look, we need to talk..."
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On Where Do Liberals Say They'll Move Now if Obama Loses?
Although if you do move to Australia, Melbourne is by far the best place to be, and the most liberal, despite Baillieu. Australia becomes more conservative the further north you go, much like America becomes more conservative the further south you go. Also Southern Europe is more conservative than Northern Europe, and South America is all Catholic. Do warm climates breed conservatism?
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On Where Do Liberals Say They'll Move Now if Obama Loses?
Which will be well enhanced under incoming God-King Tony Abbott.
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On Goodbye, Koala Bear
Uh, eucalyptus are the ONLY kind of trees we have here. And this article is simply wrong, because:
"The IUCN lists the species as "Least Concern".[2] The Australian government does not consider the species to be threatened, although the US government has declared the koala a threatened species."
Haha, thanks EPA, but it's our country and I think we know what we're doing!
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On Inside the Post-It Note Anti-Obama Revolution
I finally took the trouble to look up what a gallon is, and it turns out it's about 3.8 litres. So you're paying just over $1 a litre. In Australia I'm paying $1.45 a litre, and I'm pretty sure that in Europe it's usually at least $2 or $3 a litre.
So quit your whining.
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On Against Our War in Libya
And plenty of the rebels did want foreign help.
You say "bombing people" as though we're deliberately targeting civilians, rather than bombing people who are trying to bomb civilians. You have gone straight to semantics, skipping over the point I was making: we shouldn't let the catastrophic fuck-up that was Iraq prevent us from using more legitimate military interventions.
Criticise the lack of Congressional declaration of war, criticise the haste, criticise the lack of foresight. But I honestly don't see how you can believe that this intervention is not the morally right thing to do, when most of the rebels are requesting military support that the West can easily provide.
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On Against Our War in Libya
Oh, and this would actually be your fifth war in a Muslim country, after Pakistan and Yemen. Sixth if you include Somalian pirates.
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On Against Our War in Libya
The reason NATO is intervening in Libya and not Yemen/Bahrain/Oman etc. is because Libya is the only country that has actually graduated to full-on civil war rather than just violent protests (apart from Tunisia and Egypt, who deposed of their dictators without outside help).
I am honestly amazed at the widespread disapproval to this, and the comparisons to Iraq. Iraq was a country that we invaded ourselves, for our own reasons, under the guise of regime change. Libya is a country whose people have taken steps to change their regime themselves and are now asking for our help while they get shot to pieces. They are ASKING for our help! Are we so terrified of the results of Iraq that we now refuse to get our hands dirty ever again?
And, yeah, what was up with your "kill Americans" paragraph? You can't criticise the Iraq War and then criticise the people who fought against it.
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On On Expectations (And A Writer's Lack Of Same)
When I read pieces like this by young writers who are struggling real hard yet still being more succcessful than me, all I can think is "I hope they're older than me." (I'm 22.)
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On "Almost Alcoholics" Just Not Trying Hard Enough
Society likes to make a big hoopla about the perils of binge drinking but there's no way that drinking a shitload once a week and throwing up and getting hungover and swearing off the booze for about a week (like I did in uni) is worse than casually having five or six standard drinks a night no matter where I am or who I'm with (like I do now). Binge drinking would have to result in an overall total of less alcohol entering your body, right?