Let Values Australia be the first to break the news! We have discovered why we think Tony Abbott keeps running around in budgie smugglers (about which one wise man wrote, “all smuggle and no budgie”). It goes like this: Vlad Putin > Rasputin > the Mad Monk > the Mad Abbott. And that [...]

The Pope shouldn’t resign. He should remain in charge of the whole rotten profiteering, woman-fearing, guilt-gorging, child-raping institution while it tumbles

When these Indian boys find mixed religion couples they bash them, sometimes with a rock to the head. Now that’s the way to prove your views are correct!

We have to get past why we came here. Yes, forget the treachery of the players in the US, Britain and Australia. Let’s ignore the slaughter of innocent people.

    Perhaps you are one of the few who have not come across this website yet. Let us be the first to say “read read read read read” … It’s 27b/6 and it’s laugh-out-loud hilarious. The writer/owner, David Thorne, lives in the small country village of Adelaide, which is commonly regarded as the murder [...]

It is a delight to have the quality of readers that we do. This is proved by the quality of spammer we attract. To illustrate here are some recent efforts

Hidden stains! Nasty, embarrassing stains that no-one can see! Because they’re hidden? As a wife and mother, how can I live with the thought of invisible stains

Sam Harris’s TED Talk will challenge even many heathens and infidels as he takes on the Christians’ last stand – that you can’t be moral without a god

Obama’s universal health bill has passed the House. It is being hailed by Mistah Presidunt as a good thing. As an Australian we would like to say:

if Dennett and LaScola are right that belief is mostly aspirational for most people, it follows that few people actually do believe but merely wish they could

US Companies have people rights. Jon Stewart – sorry, “JonCo” – explains how easy it would be to make $1M dollars if people could have corporations’ rights

Richard Dawkins’ speech about his new book, “The Greatest Show on Earth”, was recorded for ABC’s for Big Ideas. Here are a couple of brief excerpts

      Most of the gods did not die of the internet, though. The very vast majority – sincerely believed-in, venerated, worshipped, glorified, steeped in blood sacrifice – died long ago from real-world evidence, or lack of results, or conquest, and by rational human thought. “I contend that we are both atheists,” said Stephen [...]

A year after Tim Berber’s Lee’s plea for Open Source Data on TED Talks: some remarkable achievements. And Microsoft’s Pivot software. The future of the web?

“what is in another country’s best interest should be put to the test in international forums. We do not have the right to shape every nation in our image”