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In other news; sledgehammer cracks walnut
The French Parliament today voted to ban women from wearing a burqa, sorry, require open display of one’s face in public — in defense of liberty, equality and fraternity. The law has yet to undergo scrutiny by France’s Constitutional authorities [...]
Australia's Most Wanted: People Smuggling Edition
“…people smuggling is an evil trade to be punished.” Prime Minister Julia Gillard, address to Lowy Institute, 6 July 2010. People of Australia, your government supports good things, and opposes evil things. Consequently, we appeal to the public to come [...]
Modifications to RSPT: As you were
It’s worth highlighting that the “changes” to the RSPT, which our new PM is about to announce, appear to be identical to what the former PM was about to announce as recently as last Friday. According to the SMH (emphases added): The Herald [...]
A local slice of revolution
The town where I am fortunate to live, work and teach is situated in one of the most agreeable areas of rural NSW, and the locals are among the most resilient, resourceful and earnest people you could ever hope to [...]
Archimedes' lever
Archimedes knew he could move the world with a lever and a sufficiently stable place to stand. Why worry about influencing the electorate, when you only have to leverage a few dozen political operatives who are all part of your [...]
Monday morning musings
Some isolated points that occur to me this morning. Feel free to riff on any or all of them: Scanning this morning’s Murdoch and ABC news media, the order of stories and editorial lines are identical. An opinion poll result [...]
Wingnut as she is spoke: "Personal responsibility"
It is accepted wingnut wisdom that “personal responsibility” is the crucial element that separates civilisation (our gun-toting, refugee-bashing, home-schooled neighbourhood) from the barbarians (publicly-educated, prosocial, multi-branched liberal democracies). At the level of theory, the trope of “personal responsibility” conceives of [...]
Wingnut as she is spoke: "Rudd's a phony"
It is accepted wisdom among Rudd haters that he’s “a fake, a fraud, a phony” and some day the Orstrayun people will “see through him”. I’ve seen variations on this meme repeated endlessly among blog barrackers ever since Rudd first [...]
Overachievers not-so-anonymous
No need to mince words: politics attracts more than its fair share of oddballs. Or, to be charitable, perhaps the relentless pressure of the job throws everyday personality flaws into sharper relief, and displays them with unforgiving prominence upon the [...]
Great news for John McCain, Australian edition
Anyone who followed the 2008 US Presidential Election closely would have noticed the propensity for newscasters to portray the hopelessly one-sided campaign as a close race. This was lampooned in blogosphere comments with the wry handle “this is great news [...]
Libs win elections in second place
After the two weekend state elections, it’s likely that two Labor governments will be (re-)formed: a majority government in SA and a minority government in Tasmania with Greens support (unless the Greens flip to supporting the Libs). Not that you’d [...]
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