Who's a stupid boy then?

I was going to write about those deluded folks who beat up on Australian climate scientists and accuse them of being dastardly *communists* along with other unsatisfactory words - usually starting with C.. and F..

I was interested to understand where these dingbat ideas were coming from - and then I remembered unfortunate little Nick. Apparently this giant of the Liberal Party who has been ensconced in the Senate since 1993 thinks that climate change is a *communist* plot designed to impose a *world government* on us.

The only communist plot that I know of is the one from China - you know the one where their industry is eating our lunch - because of decades of denial by Coalition MP's.

Now IMHO that just demonstrates what being a Federal politician does to your thinking organ.

Fortunately he is retiring soon and will no doubt go on to become a lobbyist and/or a member of one of those far right think tanks that litter the landscape of the world and pollute the pages of the press.

I won't be attending his farewell but will send a small note approving of it.

Anyway there are more important things to worry about than a deluded ex politician - as Bill Mitchell discusses here.