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Climate clippings 64
I’m currently working on another project, which is taking up much of my time. This week we had about 200mm of rain in one day. That could have been why my cable connection to the internet disappeared for 36 hours. [...]
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I won’t add my condemn to your condemn LIII
It’s the last week of the month, so it’s time to condemn yet again! Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and other phenomena need condemnation? (Or loud denunciation?)
Invasion Day/Australia Day: Unity/Disunity
I think everyone of a certain age can remember a certain mantra from John Howard. Symbols, he intoned, are not important. “Symbolic Reconciliation” is not important, he couldn’t say Sorry. The Republic was just a symbol, of interest to “elites”. [...]
Queensland election called for March 24
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has just announced that the state election, originally intended to be held on March 3, will now be held on March 24. Local Council elections, scheduled for March 31, will be delayed until April or May. [...]
David Cameron’s socialism by some other name
Whither Keynes? For the past six to twelve months, the big philosophical imponderable doing the rounds in British political life has been the extent to which the government should intervene in the market in order to stimulate the national economy. [...]
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Culture
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January 20, 2012 (7 responses)
Law
- Don’t cry; Disney own that emotion
January 19, 2012 (2 responses) - Old-school police culture strikes back
January 17, 2012 (14 responses) - ACLU statement on Obama’s signing of NDAA
January 1, 2012 (30 responses)
Life
- I won’t add my condemn to your condemn LIII
January 27, 2012 (38 responses) - Invasion Day/Australia Day: Unity/Disunity
January 25, 2012 (192 responses) - Queensland election called for March 24
January 25, 2012 (30 responses)
Media
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January 23, 2012 (6 responses) - It’s complicated
January 18, 2012 (66 responses) - Culture Wars: Self fulfilling prophecy time
January 17, 2012 (114 responses)
Politics
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January 27, 2012 (23 responses) - Invasion Day/Australia Day: Unity/Disunity
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January 25, 2012 (5 responses)
Religion
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Science
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January 21, 2012 (62 responses)
Sociology
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January 25, 2012 (192 responses) - Quick link – 60th anniversary of the Slansky Trial: Stalinism, anti-semitism and “anti-Zionism”.
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