Accord­ing to The Age, one of the parties in the upcom­ing Israeli elec­tions is saying voters will go to Hell if they don’t vote for Shas. This con­fused me, ‘cos Jews don’t believe in Hell… well, not like that, anyway. Instead, there’s Gehenna, a place where you get…

Never one to let a set­back set me back very far, I spent some of Wed­nes­day work­ing on a pos­i­tion paper for a very cool pro­ject jeam­land pro­posed to me and spent this after­noon phoning vari­ous politi­cians’ offices in the hope of get­ting endorse­ments for the pro­ject. I…

One more for good luck. From Richard King, writ­ing in The Age, com­ment­ing on Meat and Live­stock Aus­trali­a’s attempt to tell us that we must eat red meat because we evolved to eat red meat:… the advert­ise­ment tries to “pos­i­tion” red meat as a “found­a­tion food”. Far…