Antipodes

I don’t know whether many of my compatriots have ever heard of a NSW rural township named Breeza . Here’s a wonderful photo of the Breeza la...

This is the second video instalment of Richard Dawkins reading some of his hate mail. It’s hilarious.

On Australia Day, these sheep got their act together: But this dumb ram didn’t:

I’m so stunned and embarrassed by the comical stupidity of that Abbott fellow that I don’t feel like saying anything much at all today...

It would be wonderful if the stunning victory of the extreme left in Greece could be an incentive for vast changes in Europe. On ...

Fox News has a “specialist” named Nolan Peterson (a former GI) who informed the world, last week, that there are so-called No-Go Zones i...

The Cournouze is like an old lady (or a young lady, for that matter) who has wrapped her shoulders in a white woolen shawl. Click to...

There are several fine articles in the English-speaking press that criticize the ridiculous notion that Islamophobia would be a greater prob...

It’s not easy to people outside France about the role in contemporary French society of a press organism such as Charlie Hebdo , and the im...

After this morning’s outrageous attack in Paris, the time has come to stop talking about Islamic actors in fuzzy terms. They are crazy homi...

Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people ...

In this blog, here , I’ve already mentioned the prestigious annual Darwin Awards . They’re necessarily posthumous awards, because a winne...

Here at Gamone, it would be an exaggeration to claim that it’s cold… unless, of course, you were to go wandering around on the slopes—Aussi...

Over the last month or so, in the context of my work on a future book about Gamone, I’ve been investigating haphazardly and half-heartedly t...

Here in France, as elsewhere, Sydney’s terrible ordeal was front-page news, and we could follow events in real time, not only through the In...

The awkward term “ de-extinction ” designates the idea of recreating a living organism that had become extinct. This idea gives rise to two ...

It has just been revealed officially that this evil trio— Donald Rumsfeld , George W Bush and Dick Cheney —allowed the CIA [ Central Inte...

This is the kind of surveillance camera that I’ve installed near the entry to Gamone: You might imagine that this device has been d...

Maybe I’m exaggerating when I refer to these huge pieces of freshly-shot wild boar as medieval meat. You’ll have to excuse me. My h...

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a great new light cast by the lamps of Led. Then...