The Angry Exile

Ok, yet another mass murder in the States (and I’m not going to add to the suspect’s notoriety by adding his name here or discussing his currently still alleged crime), so surely now it’s t...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/that-american-gun-thing-again/

I wasn’t going to say much about Hannah Mouncey’s attempt to nominate for the 2018 AFLW draft as a transgender woman or that she wasn’t allowed to. I’d tweeted a couple of times about it ...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/football-the-womens-league-and-transgender-players/

So I’m annoyed about Doctor Who, though not because I’m opposed to having female heroes in action/sci-fi  but because I’m keen on having good quality, original female heroes in action/sci-...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/doctor-meh-and-the-planet-of-lazy-tokenism/

This isn’t a Ghostbusters rant. I need to mansplain that out of the way at the start because some on both sides of that particular argument may expect it to be. But that remake is part of some...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/does-genderswapping-fictional-characters-really-advance-women/

“Dafuq, Exile,” I hear you exclaim. “I thought you liked ANZAC Day. Didn’t you write all this a few years ago?” Public opinion of ANZAC Day in Australia has apparently swung back and fo...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/has-anzac-day-caught-the-2010s-most-contagious-disease/

Although I don’t blog anything like as much as I used to I do try to remember to find something appropriate on a particular day or two each year. Possibly not for the first time, and probably n...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/november-11th/

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard this CheapAir flight from Worriesville to Fretchester. If I might have your attention for a few minutes, my name is Angry Exile and I’m the purser aboard yo...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/on-depressed-pilots/

Piracy and the recent … er… I’ve been tweeting and not blogging for such a long period now that this huge plank of lettered buttons in front of me and this vast empty square on the screen ...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2015/02/14/yo-ho-yo-ho-a-pirates-life-still-isnt-for-me/

On the Trek Oh, the weary, weary journey on the trek, day after day, With sun above and silent veldt below; And our hearts keep turning homeward to the youngsters far away, And the homestead wher...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/11th-november/

Let’s imagine that it’s the late 20th Century or early 21st, and that for some reason we want to make it look like a plane hit the Pentagon and, depending on the details of our scenario, thre...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/was-it-a-bomb-was-it-a-plane-was-it-superplot/

Some time ago I blogged on the news that the Australian nannies had recognised that the majority of people in Australia are adults and that many of those adults like to play computer games, and f...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/this-is-why-we-cant-have-horrifying-things/

So by now everyone will be aware that Australia’s first knitting Prime Minister has been stabbed in the back by her own party in favour of the former Prime Minister she stabbed in the back for ...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/thrills-and-spills/

Last weekend’s post on minarchism versus anarcho-capitalism and my long winded explanation as to why I put myself in the former category rather than the latter prompted a response from @Veresap...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/a-necessary-evil-redux-a-reply-to-veresapiens/

Some minarchist libertarians say that while they like anarchy as an ideal they’re not anarchists because they still see a role for the state, and that while it may be evil unfortunately it’s ...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/a-necessary-evil-minarchy-anarcho-capitalism-and-the-state/

I’ve become a little time poor for regular blogging in the last year or so and as both of my readers probably know I’ve moved over to Twitter, recently the scene of the kind of free speech ba...

https://angryexile.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/anzac-day-2/