Comments on: Hey, this barrow has a corpse in it!

By: mila

mila — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:00:52 +0000

I wish that John never donated for any medical reaserch and never had cosmetic dentistry.He would still be alive.
Did anybody ever reflected why in last 10 years we have so many young people droping dead or commiting suicides?

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:26:01 +0000

Loved the writing in this post, Mercurius, thanks.

By: philiptravers

philiptravers — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:07:16 +0000

I didnt know the man, the enterprise, the retailed commodity there.Are my comments less value than The Rupe Empire of Uncles about good business sense,with token female uncle,or Ambi-whats it! Hope not!?And let his family get on with it!?

By: Andrew E

Andrew E — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:01:14 +0000

That’s right, because once you’ve writen 300 words on anyone then that’s it, you can’t write about that person any more and everything that could possibly be said about that person has already been written.

Albrechtsen has to spend the rest of her life digging herself out of the hole she fell into over Howard: Howard did everything I could have hoped for, but I’m still going to dump on him. She’s looking for Australia’s Howard Roark and she found him in a guy who retailed mobile phones.

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:28:33 +0000

One death, hundreds of viewpoints. Each of us has so many facets, do we not?
So why shouldn’t commentators latch onto an aspect that tickles their fancy, and ignore all the other characteristics of the deceased? Perhaps it’s only those of limited imagination who believe a life can be shoe-horned into one category only? Such habits of thought might be called “The Sociological Fallacy”.

Bertrand Russell [?]: “people can be divided into two groups, those who feel more at ease when they see a policeman, and those who do not.”

Garrie Hutchinson: “People can be divided into two groups, those who think that people can be divided into two groups, and those who do not.”

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let nineteen schools of thought contend.

By: Spiros

Spiros — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:45:07 +0000

Oops. Cut and paste error.

By: Spiros

Spiros — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:38:33 +0000

The jury is still slightly out on how It is amusing to read the capitalist-tragic Albrechtson lecturing capitalists on how they are insufficiently capitalist. This is quite common on the Right. The loudest cheer leaders for business are those who have never run a business and never could, but hold a cartoonish view of what business is actually about.

Of course Albrechtson would never mention Ilhan’s faith even though he it was important to him and the way he lived. Here was a devout Muslim who loved Australia, was a devoted famiiy man and gave generously to medical research. He didn’t fit the stereotype, so Albrechtson air brushed his faith from his life.

How typically shallow of her.