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  • A new superhero (swoon)

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    The mighty Fixateur D. Perspective! image from here Are you finding that relentless spin is making you dizzy and confused? Is the obsessive nit-picking over teeny-tiny reportage discrepancies by conspiracy theorists making you nauseous? Let Fixateur guide you through the… Read More ›

  • Transparency in Pregnancy Counselling

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    From the background section of the Senate Committee Minority Report: The aim of Transparent Advertising and Notification of Pregnancy Counselling Services Bill 2005 (to be referred to as ‘the bill’ from here on after) is to regulate pregnancy counselling services… Read More ›

  • More pimping the idiot box

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    Ricky Gervais’ new series, Extras, starts tonight on ABC at 9pm in the slot where Absolute Power just ended its season. If they had to take my Stephen Fry away, at least I get Ricky in his place (talk about… Read More ›

  • CRACKER!!!!

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    This Fri night on Channel 7, Robbie Coltrane is back as Fitz after 10 years, and Jimmy McGovern is back writing it after 12 years. For some reason, Australia’s getting the world premiere. Set those VCRs, everybody.

  • A beer bottle full of terror

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    The Poor Man Institute (for Freedom and Democracy and a Pony) spent last Friday Getting Serious About Terror. There. Now I’ve articulated a strategy every bit as coherent and likely to succeed as the Bush-Cheney-Sullivan strategy. Well done that man…. Read More ›

  • Links post: authoritarian childrearing and exodus

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    There’s some very interesting writing on the religious-authoritarian worldview around at the moment. Authoritarian childrearing practices such as those recommended and followed by many religious groups are an ancient tradition, and in certain societies add materially to survival prospects. But… Read More ›

  • Weekend flashback – the remiss edition

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    I was so crook yesterday I forgot all about this, so I’m glad I did my Googling for images earlier in the week. When I was about 10, in the mid-70s, there was a big old picture palace about a… Read More ›

  • The book tag

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    Morgspace tagged me for a book meme. I don’t usually do these blog memes, but Morgan knows me well enough to know I’m unlikely to resist a chance to jaw about books. 1. One book you have read more than… Read More ›

  • Don’t come near me

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    I hab a cod. Sneezing, sniffling, snoring, sinus-achy misery. I can’t smell anything in my garden or taste anything on my plate. I hate the world. If you come near me I’ll give it to you too, just so that… Read More ›

  • Short and sweet

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    I’ve a long post up at Larvatus Prodeo today, and I’m composing a response to Morgspace’s 10 Questions about Books meme with which he has tagged me, so that’s preoccupying me somewhat. I just have to mention how my jaw… Read More ›