Notes from Felicia
The sub-set of Mac OS X users and developer who actively prefer the platform to others = Oscar Wilde.
The sub-set of Linux users and developers who actively prefer the platform to others = H G Wells.
The metaphor’s potential use is in its ability to make evident the often cross-purposes arguments of each community.
The rest of the article.I’m now sitting in the right-hand lane, waiting with half-a-dozen other cars for the light to change so we can cross or turn onto King William Street.
It’s about as mundane a setting as you could find in any city on earth. People in cars and on bikes and on footpaths going about their day.
Unfortunately, on the footpath to my left, only a lane away, something ugly and stupid is happening. Even worse, for all its ugliness, this happening is as mundane as the cars and bicycles.
The rest of the article.There are 54 people standing for 11 open seats in the upper house this election and some of them are truly awful.
Now, I could vituperate these folk. I could suggest Barbara Pannach and Basil Hille (the two One Nation candidates) are representatives of a paranoid, xenophobic, anti-intellectual, anti-reality, ‘I can’t handle complexity and want things to be the way I thought they were when I was young and stupid’ party.
I could say that Dennis Hood (number one candidate for Family First) is a hateful fundamentalist who’s arrogant swagger and self-righteous religiosity remind me more of Elmer Gantry than they do St Francis of Assisi or Hillel the Elder.
But it’s a lot more fun to put the numbers 52, 53 and 54 against their names as I finish laying down my preferences.
The rest of the article.do I think The Passion of the Christ will inflame anti-Semitic feeling? Do I think it will revive the deicide slander?
Yes, I do.
Do I think Gibson should be stopped? That the film should be banned?
Of course I don’t. Supporting freedom of speech means defending speech you don’t like.
Do I think Gibson has guts putting the film together in the first place?
Not particularly.
The rest of the article.Take away our styled hair, cotton underwear and antiperspirant and what are you left with? The Savannah-dwelling, hunter-gatherer social hominids we like to pretend we aren’t.
This less sophisticated truth is a useful thing to keep in mind…
The rest of the article.Making drug use illegal is stupid, counter-productive and morally indefensible.
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