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1 week ago | 
news.com.au | Daniela Elser
20,359 days. That’s how long it’s taken us to go from the humanity-lifting, awe-inspiring wonder of Neil Armstrong’s “It’s one small step for man” to what was, I suppose, inevitable. Space has been invaded, the final frontier has been breached, by a new species – celebrity sponcon has arrived in orbit thanks to Jeff Bezos.
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1 week ago | 
news.com.au | Daniela Elser
Dante thought there were nine circles of hell but hey, he’d never been to Coachella. He, the lucky sod, never had to fret about only ‘gramming his way to the purgatory of a sub 100K follower count. But circles of hell are the only way to describe what Coachella weekend one was like based on the outraged, horrified and despairing outpourings of attendees who have gone so far as to call conditions “worse than Fyre Festival”. And they didn’t even have to leave the dock.
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1 week ago | 
news.com.au | Daniela Elser
OPINIONElon Musk has taught us a very important lesson this week – you can be the world’s richest person, able to buy and sell elections, countries, hair plugs, children and access to Donald Trump’s personal minifridge, but you can still be a deadset, rolled gold, incurable loser.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Daniela Elser
OPINIONOne of the world’s most confusing and bizarre relationships since independent, vivacious Miss Piggy settled for the milquetoast Kermit appears to have bitten the dust. Only two and a bit years after marrying in the tech mecca of Palo Alto, Kanye West and his Australian wife Bianca Censori are apparently kaput. Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because we have had years of bewildered, fascinated rubbernecking out of these two.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Daniela Elser
OPINIONThe list of Australian treasures just grew one name longer today. Oh, we have our Magda, our Hugh, our Delta – but let me introduce you to Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia. In a matter of two minutes, one of the US Senate’s largely interchangeable roster of 66 white middle-aged blokes has managed to transform himself into Australia’s latest, greatest hero.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Daniela Elser
OPINIONThere have been so many brilliant movies and TV series about American politics over the years. All The President’s Men, especially if you can follow all that parking garage mumbling and typewriter adjacent chain-smoking and The West Wing, if the rat-a-tat, power striding while talking doesn’t make you faintly car sick. But the show that best sums up the current situation in the White House is obvious: Mean Girls. Oh my god Becky, did you see his Yemen chat?
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2 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Daniela Elser
OPINIONCharles Dickens once wrote about a tale of two cities – but this is the tale of two laws. Ever since Donald Trump returned to power and plunged both hands into America’s cookie jar, the world’s attention has rightly been glued to the hellscape that Washington has become. But to really see how banana-rama, coco-moloko the United States is right now, let me tell you about two bits of legislation that look set to be passed in the country’s nether regions. Orgasms are out. Child labour? Back in.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Daniela Elser
OPINIONThe list of victims who have fallen foul of Trump 2.0 so far include 85,000 federal workers who are out of jobs, 14 million children left to starve literally overnight thanks to aid cuts and the dozens of towns and cities battling measles outbreaks, despite the disease being eliminated from the US in 2000, the same year Shaggy’s It Wasn’t Me came out. And now, Asian water dragons and clownfish and deer could be in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Daniela Elser
OPINIONIt’s a bleeding shame that King Charles and Pope Francis won’t be meeting up for a chinwag in Rome next week, because they have so much in common. You might not think it, given the former is famous for having once fantasised about being his girlfriend’s tampon – something that didn’t impress his wife or the British public – and the latter is a lifelong do-gooder who goes to work wearing slippers and probably thinks Animal Planet is too racy.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Daniela Elser
OPINIONHappiness. Love. Style. There are plenty of things money can’t buy – even ungodly, vast mountains of the lovely greenback-y stuff. Just ask the billionaire who recently nearly cried on camera, is single and generally dresses like he’s off to an OnlyFans Anonymous meeting. Now we’ve just learnt that there is another thing Elon Musk’s more than $476 billion can’t buy him: An election. (That, and any T-shirts that don’t give tech bro-Ed Hardy, fighting-for-weekend-visitation-rights vibes).
