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- Armagny
- Policy lawyer, international relations postgrad, lefty contrarian, muso, married, proud father, have cats, lefty, enjoy fine liquor... These Armagnac dispatches cover parenting and fatherhood, politics, law, ethics, international relations, life and love, cats and a piece of my soul for good measure.
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We need to stare vacantly into space more often - One way to counter this has been to attempt to recuperate the supposed vice of idleness—to hymn napping, daydreaming and sheer zoning out. Samuel Johnson i...1 day ago
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visualtraining: Born to Kill (1947, Robert Wise) - visualtraining: *Born to Kill* (1947, Robert Wise)2 days ago
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Ducks are back - The ducks were back on the nature strip last night and the BOH couldn't believe they were so tame. It was too cold to go out and get a photo so I searche...4 days ago
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Tails wagging the dog; Ratings 23rd July - 2nd TestEnglandvIndiaPre-rating1054.21152.3Form-40.1+6.2Expected MarginEngland by 9 runsActual MarginIndia by 95 runsPost-rating1039.11161.7 Until one bal...5 days ago
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Completely sincere feminist love poem #2 - O strong-willed and independent womyn Whose blood pulse is the pulse of the seasons, Whose mind is the mind of Gaia, Who runs with the wolves of the night ...5 days ago
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A walk - Last weekend we had the most gorgeous picnic and walk around a little lake. It was so sweet watching Michael and Felix race ahead of me, ‘discovering’ engi...1 week ago
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Equalising consumption => lowering vulnerability - A comment on a previous post expresses a common set of views among conservatives: Darwin has the final word on sillyness. If same sex marriage was a useful...1 week ago
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The accidental senators - The first sitting day of the new Senate on Monday 7th July heralded the start of a new era in Australian federal politics; an era that looks set to be shap...1 week ago
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Auteur auteur! - " ... it's Nick bloody Cave." said artist James Powditch who has suffered for his newest work of art and suffered also the imperious household staff of Nicho...2 weeks ago
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Media brandings, spin, propaganda & other mischief - So this post is re-visiting the US Guantanamo debate, which is very complex but important insofar as it is a robust examination of detention conditions, tort...1 month ago
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A pretext for moving along - I think I've come to terms that this blog is over. It was a fantastic way to meet people and talk about my thoughts and processes, but I seem to be channel...3 months ago
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A possible solution to the "refugee boat crisis" affecting Australia... - It seems that the divide is like this... one side says we cannot let them in and the other side says let them in. That is a huge oversimplification of cou...4 months ago
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Plus Ultra! - I know Brian said that we’d posted our last, but I couldn’t let the very kind words on the thread announcing our closure to go un-remarked. I also thought ...6 months ago
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To Brodie Donegan, on the NSW foetal personhood bill - I heard a detailed account of the ups and downs in NSW over the introduction of ‘Zoe’s Law’ on the car radio yesterday. And I couldn’t help thinking of the...8 months ago
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Feminism and the terrifying dependency of children - [Cross-posted at Larvatus Prodeo - where you'll find a great conversation on these issues in the comments.] For Australian women of my generation, many is...1 year ago
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Young women and the ‘F’ word - Alecia Simmonds is a feminist. Or at least she thinks she is one- and the proof is that she can get her rant on with holy buzzwords like ‘patriarchy.’ Sim...1 year ago
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Toast - The girls usually bite big chunks out of the middle of their morning toast rectangles, turning them into some kind of amorphous animals that squeak at each...1 year ago
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the horses - Like most of the rest of the world, I was entranced to see that the spawn of the Dear Leader had got hisself a squeeze. A singer and whatnot, you know, as l...2 years ago
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Tigers in Literature and Popular Culture - For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him. For he is of the tribe of Tiger. For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger. -- Chr...2 years ago
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I'm from the Commonwealth Bank and I'm here to help myself. - ONLINE auction site eBay has withdrawn the Snowtown Bank from sale less than 24 hours after real estate agent Nigel Christie listed it. In emails and ...2 years ago
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Nature, red in tooth and beak - We were forced to have a barbecue at Lake Tuggeranong Town Park. The park is green and pleasant, with a sandy lakeshore beach, skate park and playground e...2 years ago
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wrong basket - For several years Flo has had a penchant for the wrong basket. Like many dogs 'of a certain age' she muddles the scale. But in the meantime, the dogs in ...2 years ago
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I heart feminists on twitter – some Christmas dues - A lovely conversation on twitter has sparked me to dust off the old blog to talk about how twitter is a much more feminist friendly space than blogging eve...2 years ago
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1 comment:
most of that obscenely large advertising money is spent telling us:
stuff we already know,
untrue stuff they want us to think, or
about jobs that are already marked for in-house people.
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