January 2012
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Millionaire Republican presidential candidate does...
Mitt Romney pays an effective tax rate of 15.something%
Barack Obama doesn’t think this is fair. Most Americans pay more than 30% effective tax.
Mitt Romney’s friends run America, and ran it into the ground over the last thirty years.
Barack Obama thinks this means that Mitt Romney probably shouldn’t be put into power, and that millionaires should stop whinging when the mass...
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Dear stupid fucking tory idiot on The Drum...
Social welfare did not cause permanent mass unemployment, growth model economics, invented by idiotic tories like you alongside monetarism as a tool to demolish welfare and Keynesianism in the 1970’s, caused modern mass unemployment.
Growth model economics depends on permanent unemployment to provide a labour force when labour demand growth exceeds population growth.
You created the...
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I'm sorry but.
“Cathy Freeman won Australian of the Year one time” is not a counter-argument against the lack of inclusiveness in the timing of Australia Day for indigenous australians.
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'Chronicle' isn't a real movie
It’s a new media project to see if you can make a film out of a bunch of disjointed ads, which are presumably for some kind of gum.
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Why is it so hard to say "Pokies are the problem"?
Yes, problem gamblers are, in their own way, a many and varied type.
Yes, odds at the ground, odds on the telly, online and mobile gambling and sugar-coated gaming targeted at children are problems.
Yes, all those things have a role to play in creating problem gamblers and exacerbating their problems.
But pokies are the real problem. When “problem gambling” first became an issue it...
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Lists
Teach a Summer School. - Done
Become attached to awesome kids I teach, because they’re awesome. - Done
Get tonsilitis for some reason and still go to Summer School. - Done
Take a short rest before I start my AEU internship. - In progress
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Facetiousness
Is the intellectual order of the day.
People keep inventing or stealing ideologies, stances, philosophies, to justify their own bullshit.
Confronted by the horror of white privilege that has elevated them to their every opportunity, they invent libertarianism and BAM! they’re the products of their own fucking genius, light-out-the-arse and all.
Faced with the sexism inherant in wages, in...
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Totally teaching a summer school last week and...
So yeah. Real people are obliged to listen to me for ten days, in total, hence not being here.
Once that social power is taken from me I’ll be back.
You’ll all see.
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And
A Delorean, a 1st Gen Firebird and a 2nd Gen GTO.
Also
I saw Ian Hewitson standing by Fitzroy Street in St Kilda today, just staring at a building.
Without suspenders on.
Sans. Fucking. Braces.
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You know what's a great word?
Bum.
“You have a nice bum!” Is something I would love to hear after sex, or during. Though obviously it’s more of a reflective statement and therefore much more post-coital.
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When did Carrie Fisher become a hilarious raving...
And why doesn’t she have her own talk show?
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Seriously
The future was going to be hoverboards, not vintage bikes, labradors that were super-smart, not labradoodles, robots, not Siri.
So fucking angry about this!
And the virus that is presently making me feel like all my muscles have just done a tour of duty at Ypres. But mostly how badly the future turned out.
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Tablets are now being sold on the basis of their...
This is what the future looks like, hipsters playing retro games on Apple producted wrapped in cases that are pretending to be books.
The future was cooler when I was a kid.
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It's a long-shot but...
nighttimemilk:
Is there anyone on Tumblr in Melbourne who would like to, and be capable of, adopting a cat? Photos will be forthcoming later, but our domesticated feral kitten Freja gave birth to two, presumed female (Germaine Greer may be brought in for a consult), kittens at the end of November. They’re beautiful little tortoiseshells, slightly demure and shy, but never fearing to look you in...
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It's a long-shot but...
Is there anyone on Tumblr in Melbourne who would like to, and be capable of, adopting a cat? Photo’s will be forthcoming later, but our domesticated feral kitten Freja gave birth to two, presumed female (Germaine Greer may be brought in for a consult), kittens at the end of November. They’re beautiful little tortoiseshell’s, slightly demure and shy, but never fearing to look you...
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You know all that shit you got as a kid?
Excema? Hayfever? Flus? Dental problems?
I GET THEM NOW!
On the other hand I’m probably as fit as I’ve even been and hot and cold affect me nought, so, maybe I’m the buggy Human Juggernaut beta version.
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Slow days for other people mean long naps
Slow days for me mean long naps between an overheated head exploding with me making myself go slightly crazy over nothing.
Yet another reason why I wish I lived near the ocean.
December 2011
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On the train yesterday
In the inner reaches of the Pakenham-Cranbourne line I began to realise something.
Fuck, bits of Melbourne are identical to Sydney.
It didn’t help that I had already been travelling at least five hours that day, including nearly two behind the wheel of my uncle’s car, noting that I haven’t been in a situation of repeatedly starting a manual from stand-still in some months.
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Island Hopping
“We’re going to Tasmania, but I asked to go to Bali”
The girl who got on at Murrumbeena.
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"You've ruined a perfectly good Ford!"... →
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And that was the day I helped rescue an injured...
South Carolina man threw a 12-pound bowling ball... →
Rape culture is when men feel so entitled to have access to women that they throw bowling balls at us when they are denied.
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Hostage negotiation classes are mandatory Tony →
How to negotiate with your implacable foes, Tony Abbott style:
Hope that you already have the advantage, if you do not, hope that carping and whinging will get the media on your side. If there is no media to instrumentalise so, do not begin negotiations.
Demand that your enemies do exactly what you would.
Pray you are not negotiating with anyone who has a gun in his back pocket.
Crow about...
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
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My sister keeps casting movies in which two...
They always rob a bank. Always.
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