August 2009
“A furious Labour MP was no different when he told a colleague of mine that I had...”
– Jesus! I’m turning into a Jew! « Nick Cohen: Writing from London
Bert P. Krages Attorney at Law Photographer's... →
Know your rights when taking photographs in public places. This link goes to a handy downloadable page that tells you your rights (under US law) if someone tries to stop you taking photographs.
Now to find one for Australia…
“Whether the Iraq war was right or wrong, it was not about imposing democracy,...”
– Even amid a war and a recession, Americans shouldn’t adopt a misguided doctrine - By Paul Wolfowitz | Foreign Policy
WatchTOPSHOP!
“It was Sen. Grassley himself who rammed the GOP’s most astonishing...”
– It’s Republicans, not Democrats, who are trying to kill the elderly. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
My thanks
You guys have written some really good and thoughtful responses. I’m learning, and I appreciate it.
The economy
bortflancrest:
indefensible:
I think that if we may use this measure, it is safe to say the economy is probably the worst I have ever seen it in my life time because I just saw a 19-year-old Nadja Auermann lookalike doing paid charity collection in Elizabeth Street.
This is sound reasoning.
Everybody knows that good looking people don’t do charity work by choice because charity is something...
Otherness
In most debates, I’m able to understand the viewpoints and the conceptual framework behind the views of my opponents. I am against missile defence, but I understand the mindset of people who are in favour of it, for example.
I come from a starting position that most people think they are doing good, and that they are arguing a case that will bring about a better world. Even the most...
The economy
They say that one measure of how bad the economy has become is that beauty is no longer enough to get you in work. In good economic times, beautiful people find that their scarce commodity is sought after and they may be able to get work beyond what their abilities alone may entitle them.
For example, in good economic times, you don’t see a lot of super-attractive people working as...
WatchPEE IN THE SHOWER
“Older Australians who indulge in up to 28 drinks a week stand a better chance of...”
– I’ve been known to do some pretty demented things when I drink 28 drinks in a session though.
Drinking ‘almost halves dementia risk’ - Yahoo!7 News
Memes are nice if you like them.
I’m a bit concerned about Tumblr-sanctioned memes, however.
I’ll put it this way – If you want to sniff your own farts all day, that’s fine by me. Just don’t be surprised when nobody wants to sit near you.
“So, what’s Twitter doing for me as an editor? Well, I bumped into @mycorpse on...”
– COVER GIRL: Scribner’s Beth Wareham on Twitter - She Writes
“• ”Mein Kampf”—Average reader’s rating: One star. Lively...”
– Joe Queenan: Amazon Reviewers Take On the Classics - WSJ.com
A scar on a person you don't know is a bookmark...
Got my Meredith Festival ticket.
Going to take the Friday and the Monday off. See if we can’t teach the kids how to do rock festivals.
Current lineup:
AKRON/FAMILY ANIMAL COLLECTIVE BAG RAIDERS CITY OF BALLARAT MUNICIPAL BRASS BAND JARVIS COCKER COMBO LA REVELACION CROCODILES EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING SIA HEAVY TRASH PAUL KELLY KID SAM KITTY DAISY AND LEWIS PHAROAHE MONCH ROYAL CROWN REVUE HENRIK SCHWARZ THEE OH...
Having a teenager staying in my house who is well and truly young enough to be my son is making me feel very odd.
Not bad, just odd.
“But on the other hand, Holder has fallen prey to the sort of magical legal...”
– Is half a torture investigation better than none at all? - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
You have an *extra* Fleshlight?
Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human... →
From the article:
Abuse, intimidation, and degradation are all part of men’s repertoire of tactics employed in competitive situations. In other words, men are not treating women differently from men—the definition of discrimination, under which sexual harassment legally falls—but the opposite: Men harass women precisely because they are not discriminating between men and women.
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The Man demobilized from Word War Two and used what money he had saved and generous soldier-settler loans to buy 28,000 lousy acres of dust and scrub. Awful country where you count acres to the sheep, and not the other way around, but he thought he’d be able to make it pay if he worked hard enough. And he did. When the rains were good he even managed to do some wheat cropping.
In time, The Man...
“Ah, so this is the bold new future, and a potential savior for dying...”
– Brow Beat : Back Adswards
Kindle
Let me get this straight. The Kindle version of a book can be MORE expensive than the one that is made from trees and ink has to be shipped using vehicles that consume fossil fuels.
That’s practically a crime. It’s certainly borderline unethical.
Roxanne’s Revenge →
Nice yarn over at Defamer.
This is the 'CIA Report on Interrogation Methods'... →
(via electronsbro)
Audience of one.
Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
“Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a...”
– BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | 1,000 cameras ‘solve one crime’