NEW EU �REFUGEE� LAWS

Read this and thank goodness for Australia�s immigration laws! At least there is one Western country that has not thrown the floodgates wide open.

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CRIME HELL IN LONDON

The �soft-on-crime� attitude and politically-correct police-bashing of the Left-leaning British government seems to have had the predictable effect: See here.

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TONSORIAL CORRECTNESS IN CHINA

China hand is having a bit of fun at the moment about fashions in haircuts among the Communist Party elite in China.

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NORTH KOREA GOING CAPITALIST?

I cannot believe this. At this rate the US Democrats will end up the only Leftists worth abusing.

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JAPAN IS THRIVING

The conventional wisdom is that Japan has been in the economic doldrums for the last 10 years and that the Japanese way of doing business has finally hit a rock. There is a much different view here. It does sound as if we have been looking at the wrong statistics.

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NATURE/NURTURE

The �moderate� position in the nature/nurture debate was once that BOTH heredity and environment form what we are. Science can be very IM-moderate, however, and the science of behaviour genetics has long gone past that moderate conclusion. Over the years, scientists have succeeded in tracking down lots of identical twins reared apart and --- guess what? Identical twins reared apart are almost as startlingly similar as identical twins reared together. So upbringing has hardly any influence on what we become. This flies in the face of what humankind has believed for thousands of years but, as the Scots say: �Facts are chiels that winna ding�.

The leading expositor of this new understanding is Stephen Pinker and, as this article shows, he is so hard to beat on the question that people complain about it.

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ACCOUNTANTS

This joke might be a little bit dated by now but not by much:

A mathematician and an accountant apply for the same job. The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks "What do two plus two equal?" The mathematician replies "Four." The interviewer asks "Four, exactly?" The mathematician looks at the interviewer incredulously and says "Yes, four, exactly."

Then the interviewer calls in the accountant and asks the same question "What do two plus two equal?" The accountant gets up, locks the door, closes the shade, sits down next to the interviewer and says "What do you want it to equal?"


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