September 4, 2010 – 7:53 am
Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle To think well of themselves. [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Environment, Politics, Skeptics, Society, Technology
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Tagged class, climate change, climate change policy, clive hamilton, Environment, environmental concern, financial modeling, George Monbiot, holocaust denial, Insight, Jenny Brockie, left wing, noel pearson, public policy, right wing, risk analysis, Science, scientific method, Simon Niemeyer, skepticism, Skeptics, Stephen Schneider
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Julia Gillard has called an election for 21 August 2010. I must confess that I’ve been pretty down about politics the last few weeks. What particularly depressed me was Labor’s ill-conceived plan to palm asylum seekers off to East Timor. It showed the same ad hoc ‘policy-on-the-run’ approach that KRudd’s regime had shown before. It [...]
The thing that has been fascinating me about the last week in politics is the evidence of the herd mentality (psychologically speaking). The herd doesn’t move direction until one person breaks ranks, and then suddenly everyone is following the new direction. I’m talking, of course, of the sudden political demise and dethroning of KRudd. A [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Media, Politics, Society
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Tagged 7:30 Report, australia, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Australian Prime Minister, David Marr, Herd mentality, Julia Gillard, kevin rudd, leadership putsch, Media, Politics, prime minister, swearing
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February 17, 2010 – 8:14 pm
I was unaware until this morning that I had been quoted at length over at LP on the Pauline Hanson issue: not about her leaving the country, but about Tony Abbott’s shenanigans when he set up ‘Australians for Honest Politics’, which to my mind is a black mark equivalent to his behaviour over RU 486. I [...]
September 29, 2009 – 8:31 am
I’d made some effort to ignore the latest inter-blog political stoush, but when I saw Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony who (unlike many people on all sides of politics in Australia) actually has something between her ears defending Robert Manne (quite possibly the rankest intellectual bully in Australia), I knew something was up. In [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Blogging, Economics, England, Fark!, Law
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Tagged a bunch of old cobblers, Catallaxy, etcetera, jurisprudence, not thinking, stoushing, The Left, The Right, things to do with law
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April 13, 2009 – 10:43 pm
One of Russia’s most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear. The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin’s coat. No-one was hurt in the attack, the [...]
February 5, 2009 – 9:15 am
This evening, the Oxford Libertarian Society hosted Spiked Online‘s Brendan O’Neill to speak on the topic ‘Why Environmentalism is the Enemy of Liberty‘. I think that O’Neill scored some good hits on the green movement: picking out the strong strains of misanthropy, paternalism and privilege attached to much environmental debate (and, it has to be [...]
September 24, 2008 – 4:11 am
Regular commenter fatfingers draws my attention to this little expectoration from within Cowards’ Castle’s protective walls. Memo to Wayne: the first vote I cast – in 1989 – was for the ALP. I stopped voting Labor in 1996 because I got the distinct impression that Labor viewed me and my kind with contempt. Having Kevin [...]
August 24, 2008 – 8:47 am
I think my response and reading of Germaine Greer’s piece On Rage has emanated from my own feelings about rage. So I thought I might explore rage myself. Sometimes, rage can be a productive emotion. For example, when I lived in the UK, the school I attended initially told my mother that they thought I [...]
August 16, 2008 – 9:52 pm
I read Tracee Hutchison’s critique of Germaine Greer, and although I often don’t agree with Hutchison, this time, I think she’s spot on in her criticisms of Greer. In Greer’s essay On Rage, she says: In considering the desperate condition of Australian Aboriginal people after 200 years of abuse physical and mental, we should not [...]
