No intelligent life in deep space or here on Earth

The latter part of that verse was rudely confirmed this week. Whether it was ‘Shanghai Sam’ Dastyari’s mea culpa in the Senate for accepting the effusive generosity of the People’s Republic of China, Donald Trump’s coquettish embrace of Russian President Vladimir Putin or the Turnbull government losing the parliament for several hours late yesterday with the casual negligence of someone misplacing their car keys, we are left to wonder if the collective IQ of the planet is on a downhill slide that will only end when we hit somewhere on the scale between a macaque and a toaster oven.

In this ocean of human incompetence a trickle of hope emerged when some of the, shall we say, less prestigious media around the world went into clickbait mode.

Full column here.