February 2012
40 posts
Coming out. Still not so straightforward.
paperscratcher:
Yesterday Tory Shepherd wrote an article on The Punch about how if, in a purely hypothetical situation, she was gay (which she’s not, don’t get her wrong) she would proudly be out to the world, no ifs or buts about it. So why, she mused, did it take Magda Szubanski so long into her career to come out publicly? She’s a well-respected member of a tolerant industry. It’s no big deal...
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Stormfront doesn't sicken me as much as the...
Most days I’ll peruse Andrew Bolt’s comment section. If I’m feeling particularly chipper I’ll give stormfront a look in to see what the deranged fraction of a fraction of a percent believes our society should look like. Normally these kind of flights of fancy are source of humour at the idiocy of a subset of our society but I’m left rather despondent today. For those...
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Homogeneity
The idea of a planet of 7 billion people enforcing some kind of rigid homogeneity is absurd. Whilst us human beings are so closely related every one of us is magnificent and different in our own kind of entropic fashion. This kind of odious sentiment that homosexuality is in some way a disorder or unnatural belies such an ill-informed hyper-solipsism to be laughable. I think the most powerful...
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This deserves a Royal Commission
A report in the Guardian newspaper yesterday has confirmed speculation that Australian soldiers handed over POWs captured in Iraq to US forces, in contravention of the Geneva convention. This topic has been raised previously and was then still ignored by the vast majority of the mainstream media. The Defence department has denied for years that Australian soldiers were involved in any manner in...
January 2012
117 posts
