November 2011
105 posts
“Taxation, to be justified, must serve a genuine public purpose… When the...”
– Fernando Tescon, Classical LIberalism Defended.
“Self-responsibility and self-control are the basic markers of any claim to...”
– Stephanie Dowrick in an opinion piece on The Slap, SMH 29 November 2011 (http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/forget-the-rod-its-irresponsible-adults-who-spoil-children-20111128-1o394.html)
It may just be me, and the people I know, but after reading this line I had an ah-hah...
“A small group of people self-selected for their commitment to some set of shared...”
– Julian Sanchez, What Democracy Looks Like
edwardok:
naysayersspeak:
Plan:
For the next two weeks:
Consume no alcohol
Consume no caffeine
Eat breakfast every day
Eat three balanced meals a day, and two snacks
Work out every day.
Likelihood of success: small.
And.. register interesting sounding Tumblr name for this project, right?
Given this is the very first step of my half-marathon training (176 days to go!), I should...
Plan:
For the next two weeks:
Consume no alcohol
Consume no caffeine
Eat breakfast every day
Eat three balanced meals a day, and two snacks
Work out every day.
Likelihood of success: small.
“The sustainability of the whole expansion exercise rests not on whether GWS can...”
– Early next year, I’m launching a football site called “The Rookie List” with my friend Claire. Earlier tonight, I went to the AFL draft and wrote a piece about it, and decided to put it up on The Rookie List, a taste of what’s to come (though, please, take it with a grain of...
“America alone cannot police the world. We should increase burden-sharing for the...”
– Jon Huntsman.
The fact that he’s not a serious Presidential candidate makes me genuinely sad. I get that he’s running for 2016 already, but his willingness to challenge Republican orthodoxy is impressive. I would dearly love to see an election battle between he and Obama.
Though...
My reading life is actually about 700x better since I bought my Kindle.
Penultimo: Ultimo's racing woman - Vida Jones →
penultimo:
Nina Eva Vida Jones (née Harris) was a Harris in the proper Ultimo sense of the term. She lived from 1882 to 1966, better known as simply Vida Jones.
She was born at Livingstone House, Harris Street, Ultimo. Jones was the seventh child of William Henry Harris, and the niece of Sir Matthew…
Um, this woman is my new hero.
“Madeline had a feeling that most semiotic theorists had been unpopular as...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
So I have two younger brothers, both of whom are still really involved in the church. The first got married in July to his high school sweetheart at the grand ol’ age of 22. The second is getting married in two weeks, at 25.
I’m kind of dreading the wedding, because I know relatives will come up to me and make comments about “when will it be your turn” and pitying me,...
Here’s my problem with the left, broadly.
They’re kind of like 19th Century Christian missionaries.
They speak as though have The Truth About Life, the perfect way for everyone to live, and they seek to impose that model on society.
Want to work more than 35 hours a week? Let us disproportionately tax you for that. Want to educate your children a different way? Let us make that...
You Woke Me Up Again: Everyone probably needs a... →
drshutterbug:
During my first and second years of med school, some rough stuff went down.
At the end of Heme phase, my uncle died from complications of metastatic prostate cancer. I missed my clinical skills lesson on “breaking bad news” to go home for his funeral.
Next, during the…
Automatic therapy-is-great reblog.
I was having a really tough time last week, but my session on Friday...
“Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and...”
– Tiger Beatdown (via pnasty)
This is so relevant to everything.
(via mindyshabibti)
THIS THIS THIS.
This is what rape culture looks like.
(via silverqueen)
And so many men fucking do not get this.
(via northerndownpour)
“you ungrateful little bitch don’t you realise that my noticing you...
It wasn’t til I saw my shrink just then that I realised how deeply angry I am at the moment. Which is a good first step.
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Actually, further to that post…
I was raised in this pretty small, working class town south of Wollongong. My parents met when Mum was 17 and Dad was 20 and married three years later. They had me four years after that.
Mum was raised in the Anglican church, but Dad wasn’t, and became a Christian under the ministry of this church in our town. The Minister there had been there for...
Sometimes, when I’m on Facebook, I see pictures and status updates from the lives of my many friends with kids, most of whom have really old-fashioned notions of gender. I see them celebrating the fact their kids are “such boys” or “such girls”, never stopping to consider maybe by encouraging certain behaviour, they’re actually demonstrating it’s not...
Today is hard..
My body hurts and my head hurts and my heart hurts. My wallet too. These days come, and fortunately, they come a whole lot less often than they did before I started therapy, but it’s still tough when they do. Sitting at my desk, with work to do, and just wishing the ground would open and swallow me whole isn’t fun.
What I’ve learnt, in all of this, is that...
So my brother Joel is getting married in a few weeks, and I’m lookig after the cake. So I did a trial run tonight. The scary thing is that I haven’t been able to find a recipe I really liked, so I made it up… well, adapted it. But it’s in the oven now, and smells amazing. Basically, I used this recipe for Red Wine Chocolate Cake, but I replaced the red wine with Grand...
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My Ideal Political Party
This is from an old post I wrote, but I think they stand
Protection of individual liberties. Minimise government interference in the way people live their lives, both directly and indirectly. Fight for a Constitutional Bill of Rights that protects political liberties, including freedom of speech, assembly, worship, and freedom from unlawful search and seizure.
And while we’re working on the...
“What an invidious choice for a voter who supports better treatment of asylum...”
– THIS. (via naysayersspeak)
Greg Barns, a disendorsed Liberal candidate for the seat of Denison before the 2001 federal election, and former member of the Australian Democrats, writes on the missing liberal force in Australian politics.
(via auspolitics)
The author’s history doesn’t...
“What an invidious choice for a voter who supports better treatment of asylum...”
– THIS.
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“I would like to suggest that the government does not belong in marriage at all....”
– More from John Humphrey’s submission on marriage equality. I love that so much.
