tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49427196244812143212024-03-14T14:18:16.435+11:00Billablogkicking at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylightBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.comBlogger602125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-7550658433198935682024-03-12T22:45:00.006+11:002024-03-13T13:26:24.480+11:00Karl Wallinger 1957 - 2024<h3 style="text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9fG7_ogSF6Wo35A9qrTfr6V-yuq7BrpRUhx6_iy4eXBzJSh6Wm0fNUYMOR5DjsFEu4RlqtCF6kRD_uqVtP-NvPxkGlKBWazmQaEGfKxAGereNOpRUYwOqvmeoO7ywGRw54aM1OHOI3-6O6nE8BCJfw7XbXNeNDFTsIOxmAW3H-dyxvlh6lsxGeaZgRQa/s600/431086741_10161129784872801_9139063521649261808_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9fG7_ogSF6Wo35A9qrTfr6V-yuq7BrpRUhx6_iy4eXBzJSh6Wm0fNUYMOR5DjsFEu4RlqtCF6kRD_uqVtP-NvPxkGlKBWazmQaEGfKxAGereNOpRUYwOqvmeoO7ywGRw54aM1OHOI3-6O6nE8BCJfw7XbXNeNDFTsIOxmAW3H-dyxvlh6lsxGeaZgRQa/s320/431086741_10161129784872801_9139063521649261808_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/thejukeboxmusicgroup" target="_blank">Image source</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Many years ago…</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Karl Wallinger was born in Wales,
near Mars, in 1957. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Like many of a similar age, his
first instrument was the oboe, which he trained classically in. He later picked
up piano and guitar as a sideline. The family encyclopedias were a great help in his musical training. He would stack several on his chest as he lay on the floor practising his breathing. Try doing that with Wikipedia! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Although known for playing guitar
left-handed, Karl was naturally right-handed and played upside down to get a
different feel. It was a microcosm of his musical approach. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One of his first professional gigs
was as musical director for The Rocky Horror Show, which he got by offering to
do it for 10 quid less than the competition. He and the band would sometimes
increase the tempo of the songs if they wanted to get home early to see the
football. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Around this time he became a staff songwriter
for a publishing company. He quickly realised it wasn’t where he wanted to be,
and went to the manager to sing, “Pleeease release me, let me go.” Since he
wasn’t coming up with the Euro-hits the publisher wanted, they came to a
mutually satisfactory arrangement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He did release a solo single in Italy under
the name Karl in c1982, backed by an even younger Chris Whitten, who seems to
have one of the only copies. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But it was after Karl answered an ad
looking for a keyboardist that Colin Bollinger became known to music fans. The
ad was placed by Mike Scott and the band was The Waterboys.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Accounts vary depending on who is
talking and when, but the relationship between Karl and Mike was fraught.
Sometimes their eccentricities and passions complemented each other, sometimes
they clashed. Karl once claimed in an interview that they had to trick Mike
into recording. Mike paid tribute to Karl today on Twitter saying, “You are one
of the finest musicians I've ever known.” Karl once quipped the reason he left
The Waterboys was because he didn’t want to do five years for GBH after
smashing a guitar over someone’s head. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No-one would deny that Karl’s input
represented the first quantum leap in The Waterboys’ music. Even 30 years
later, the phrase “ex-Waterboy” usually shows up in the first paragraph of anything
about Karl, even though he was only in the band for about three years. He also
discovered Steve Wickham, who would become the second longest serving Waterboy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There just wasn’t enough room in one
band for that much creativity though. Karl signed his own deal with Waterboys
label Ensign, and became World Party. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Do what you want but you’re gonna have to do it now…</span></i></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Karl used the signing advance to
build his own studio – a smart move which served him extremely well. One of its
first uses was to record demos for another Ensign signing, a firebrand
post-punk singer songwriter. Those demos would go on to become The Lion and the
Cobra and Sinéad O’Connor would sing on Karl’s first two albums as well as
appearing in the video for Private Revolution. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The cover of World Party’s first
album, Private Revolution features Karl’s own radiogram – his “holy altar” as
he called it. He said that his approach to making albums was to have the effect
of setting up a dozen singles on the record selector in such a way as to make
the rest of the room say, “Yeah, man! Great selection!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It certainly was! Completely
self-produced and recorded, with occasional guest spots from Waterboy Anthony
Thistlethwaite on saxophone, soon-to-be Waterboy Steve Wickham on fiddle, and Sinéad
O’Connor providing harmonies, it was an artist doing exactly what he wanted but
with enough of a pop sense to be radio friendly too. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Show me to the top…</span></i></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It was 1990’s Goodbye Jumbo which
proved Private Revolution was no one-off side project. Karl relocated his
studio to London, added real drums, and dared to sound exactly like his heroes
while still bringing new sounds to songs relevant to the modern world. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The album was again completely
self-produced with guest spots from Jeff Trott, Steve Wickham, and Sinéad
O’Connor, but the most significant collaboration was with Guy Chambers, who
would become quite significant later on. Goodbye Jumbo won the Q Magazine award
for album of the year, starting a long tradition of World Party receiving
virtually unanimous critical acclaim, well beyond commercial recognition. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1993’s Bang! was the only World
Party album to be recorded with a core band, comprising of Karl, Dave
Catlin-Birch, best known as Paul in The Bootleg Beatles on guitar and bass, and
ex-La and current High Flying Bird Chris Sharrock on drums. The two were a
perfect fit for both Wallinger’s musical aesthetic and mad humour. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bang! also featured a co-producer
and mixer on a handful or tracks, Steve Lillywhite. Stylistically, it was
Karl’s most eclectic album, from the country-tinged opener Kingdom Come, to
the Prince-influenced funk of What Is Love All About? and Hollywood, plus Karl’s
most defining song, Is It Like Today? The latter was Karl’s attempt to summarise
Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy in four verses. Ambitious,
much? And he pulled it off, filling an entire reel of tape with vocal harmony
overdubs. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bang! was World Party’s highest
charting album, they toured it, and then went quiet again. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is time…</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Between World Party’s third and
fourth albums, Britpop exploded. There’s a reasonable case to be made that Karl
Wallinger invented it. He was wearing his Beatles and Stones influences on his
sleeve way back in 1990. By the time the rest of the world caught up, he was
back in his studio crafting what would be his most cohesive album. He did
express exasperation that John Lennon glasses were the coolest thing in the
world on Liam Gallagher but were “Karl folkie specs” on him. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Is it too late?</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Environmental concerns were high on
Karl’s agenda throughout his career. Every album contained at least one love
song to the World as well as several about how arrogant humans are fucking it
up. The tone of the topics evolved through. While Goodbye Jumbo was warning,
and Bang! was getting desperate, Egyptology was despairing. “Yes, I see it now
the pageantry that comes to Vanity Fair / But I’m sad to say it came too late,
and now I just don’t care.” <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The album contained some of the
darkest themes Wallinger had ever explored, including the death of his mother,
but is also uplifting in the beginning and end. If the next World Party album
had come out in 1995, it might have been overlooked in the Blur vs Oasis hype,
but perhaps not as badly as it was two years later. It was a commercial flop,
perhaps due in part to a falling out with Chrysalis over the direction of the
album. And yet ironically, it contained what would become his biggest hit. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">World Party’s single release of She’s
the One didn’t make it past the promo disc stage. And yet, when Robbie Williams
covered the song with a soundalike version, produced by Guy Chambers (who was
now Nobbie’s co-writer and producer), featuring Dave Catlin-Birch and Chris
Sharrock, and released on Chrysalis, it went to number 1 all over Europe. The
only difference between the two records was the face on the cover. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Makes you wonder, eh?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But it was a blessing in disguise. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What does it mean now?</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Karl parted ways with Chrysalis and
the fifth World Party album was released on Karl’s own label, Seaview. Released
in 2000, Dumbing Up continued Karl’s concern for the planet and humanity, but
with a generally positive outlook for the turn of the millennium. He also
announced that World Party was not going to disappear for another three years.
He was true to his word. It would be over six. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bang!</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In early 2001, Karl got a massive
headache. He was taken to hospital where it was found he had suffered a major brain
aneurysm which required serious surgery. At first, it was unclear whether he
would be able to walk again, let alone play. He lost his peripheral vision
(which was already poor) and had to relearn how to play piano and guitar. It
would be 2006 before he gingerly stepped back into music again. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rescue me</span></i></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Although Karl was justifiably bitter
that his bandmates and label turned She’s the One into a hit without him, it
ultimately helped him survive his time as an invalid following the aneurysm. He
later said, “I was so lucky that Robbie recorded "She's the One"
because it allowed me to keep going. He nicked my pig and killed it but gave me
enough bacon to live on for four years. He kept my kids in school and me in
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Despite returning to music, it’s
probably fair to say Karl never fully recovered from the aneurysm. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were a few low-key tours of
the US, performing mostly as an acoustic trio, and a full band tour of
Australia with Steely Dan. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2012, World Party released a
5-disc collection of odds and ends featuring new songs, out-takes, B-sides and
live tracks. This was followed by a triumphant show at the Albert Hall. Karl
teased the idea of a new album as recently as last year but to be brutally
honest, we’d heard that many times before. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It’s unlikely we will hear any more
music from him now. Karl did everything in the studio and it’s hard to imagine
anyone else being able to complete his vision for unfinished recordings. Addressing the
idea that he might be a control freak, Karl said that it was more to do with
the fact he knew exactly what he wanted and didn’t want to upset anyone by
saying, “No, no, [famous person], not like that, like this!” So yeah, probably
a control freak. And why not?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span></p>
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Can you hear the music…?</span></i></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Karl’s genius as a songwriter and
musician was matched by his genius as a producer. This is shown best in some
cover versions he did of Happiness is a Warm Gun, Penny Lane, #9 Dream and All
You Need is Love. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some people (although perhaps not Wobbly
Billions) would think the idea of doing soundalike covers is pointless. In
principle, I would agree. But these versions sound SO much like the originals
it’s scary! He had an ability to reproduce any sound or style which is itself
an incredible talent. He could have been an in-demand producer for others if he’d
wanted to. <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He was an early adopter of
multimedia and, pre-aneurysm, was looking at setting up his own online TV
channel five years before YouTube became a thing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZrLYgsoDdj8" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZrLYgsoDdj8"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I tried to keep this tribute in the
spirit of Karl’s irreverent wit. Sadness got in the way of that. But it has to
be said that Karl Wallinger had the wickedest sense of humour this side of John
Lennon. So, in addition to the music, please enjoy this piss funny opening to
the Dumbing Up show from 2000. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HMjoIWOntpg" width="320" youtube-src-id="HMjoIWOntpg"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ah, thank you Karl!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I had
written him an email</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Which I
had, for want of urgent action, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Sent to
his personal account around 9 o’clock last night.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">And an
answer came delayed, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">And the
excuse that he had made,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Was “Sorry,
didn’t see your message, had to catch an early flight.”</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">In my
wild erratic fancy,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Visions
come to me of Clancy,</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">On the
red-eye back to Canberra with no wifi on the plane. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">So I called
him to a meeting, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">And
without extraneous greeting, </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Told him,
“You belong to me, my son, don't let it happen again!”</span></i></p>
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Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-52140435993941822902024-02-17T18:27:00.000+11:002024-02-17T18:27:23.118+11:00Nineteen Eighty Twenty Twenty Four<p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x1f6kntn xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"></span></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The following contains a massive spoiler for Nineteen Eighty Four, and I would much rather you read that than this post. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwWbPt64Ov03ylAUSmdS_90-_VrbIxTVEVpSpkvhybqVKHfyNZnhVJne5XvmqffwDytGsHTlCQU57pGGiyOS39gICPu1hDuBxhnuLdPsTYq3QVFAY0PohpjNDI0SD5iXnJlsloxyeDiwxKzBjmFAcnxwwndnSb4XUeOmTNxHfSdlpyCr3SepSyBiO0EWeP/s488/198-2024.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwWbPt64Ov03ylAUSmdS_90-_VrbIxTVEVpSpkvhybqVKHfyNZnhVJne5XvmqffwDytGsHTlCQU57pGGiyOS39gICPu1hDuBxhnuLdPsTYq3QVFAY0PohpjNDI0SD5iXnJlsloxyeDiwxKzBjmFAcnxwwndnSb4XUeOmTNxHfSdlpyCr3SepSyBiO0EWeP/s320/198-2024.png" width="197" /></a></div><br /><br />If you haven't read the book, go read it. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Like, now. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Go ahead. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">This will still be here when you're done. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> = = = =</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">In fact, I believe there should be a law requiring people to read the entire book, and not just short extracts added to memes, before referencing it. It would do them well to read some of Orwell's essays on socialism, fascism, and democracy as well. <br /></div></div><p></p><div><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r67:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x1f6kntn xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">In the book, the world has been merged/absorbed into three superstates; Oceania, where the book is set, Eurasia and Eastasia. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">We are regularly told that Oceania is at war with Eurasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Eastasia is our ally. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">But then, without any warning or explanation, it flips: Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Eurasia is our ally. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">And I can't help but think of this when I see American so-called conservatives getting a massive despot-crush on Vladimir Putin, via Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/tucker-carlson-putin-interview.jpg?w=1581&h=1054&crop=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/tucker-carlson-putin-interview.jpg?w=1581&h=1054&crop=1" width="320" /></a></div><br />Do you even remember when that guy was the enemy? Even <a href="https://the-billablog.blogspot.com/2010/11/rules-nailin-palin.html" target="_blank">Sarah Palin</a> thought he was the bad guy as recently as 2008.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><h3 style="text-align: left;">And look, I know you think the cold war is over but guess what: Putin doesn't! </h3>And that's the whole ever-lovin' point!</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Khrushchev must be kicking himself that an ambitious mid-level KGB drone used flattery and spambots to achieve what he couldn't with nuclear missiles.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-bZNmjwlPbsGo6CtTY8noNVfEVj_FgJz2CtCf4n4WSHvx1JAYYyJ4OKL6dj55B8rhpsaHv0V3ISgVmNzYKtpHKPLmfs2Ikfe-N4RoG9y_lVQb4SY-GSZU2BwblA01jfMKCuOm3wjtI7bTsUZMwhhnpN0ZE9zkbzk-NaLh7FSOE7t4b5Dr770Ma-LIQj1F/s1645/Trump%20Putin%20Woodshed.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1645" data-original-width="1486" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-bZNmjwlPbsGo6CtTY8noNVfEVj_FgJz2CtCf4n4WSHvx1JAYYyJ4OKL6dj55B8rhpsaHv0V3ISgVmNzYKtpHKPLmfs2Ikfe-N4RoG9y_lVQb4SY-GSZU2BwblA01jfMKCuOm3wjtI7bTsUZMwhhnpN0ZE9zkbzk-NaLh7FSOE7t4b5Dr770Ma-LIQj1F/w361-h400/Trump%20Putin%20Woodshed.png" width="361" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>I'm no body-language expert but which of these people looks like he got exactly what he wanted and which one looks like he's just been taken to the woodshed?</b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-41436880940069964562024-02-03T16:21:00.006+11:002024-02-03T22:29:17.995+11:00The trans children’s TV character nobody noticed<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/21900000/Skipper-vs-Joey-penguins-of-madagascar-21932549-625-475.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="625" height="304" src="https://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/21900000/Skipper-vs-Joey-penguins-of-madagascar-21932549-625-475.png" width="400" /></a></div>It’s one
thing for television to be inclusive of all types of characters – people feel
accepted when they see themselves in art – but there will only be true equality
when their difference is no big deal. <p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">One
long-running animated series has done just that, and done it so well that
nobody even noticed. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penguins_of_Madagascar" target="_blank">The Penguins of Madagascar</a> is a spin-off of the film <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351283/" target="_blank">Madagascar</a>, and made by Nickelodeon. It
features characters from the film, anthropomorphised animals, living in New
York’s Central Park Zoo. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">One
refreshing aspect of the show is many of the animals go against the stereotype
often ascribed to them in fiction. The elephant is a bit dim. The squirrel is
basically a stoner. The kangaroo is an arsehole. And it’s the kangaroo I’d like
to talk about. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The kangaroo
character is named Joey after the word for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial#Early_development" target="_blank">juvenile marsupial</a>, proving the
creators did a bit of research. He has a masculine name, a masculine voice, and
is referred to as “he” by all the characters, including himself as he regularly
refers to himself in the third person. He is selfish, aggressive, and generally
a bit of a dick. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">He also has
a pouch. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">We all know
that only marsupials born female have a pouch. Clearly, Joey is the first openly
pre-op transgender character in a mainstream television program. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">And while
the other characters have plenty or reasons to dislike him, this is never one
of them. In fact, it’s never even mentioned. The characters don’t mention it,
the producers never called attention to it, the fans didn’t seem to even
notice. It is universally accepted that Joey is a male who happened to be born
with a pouch. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Bravo
Nickelodeon for this inclusivity. And it didn’t even trigger a massive right-wing
cancellation campaign. Well played!</p>
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Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-72165357588095254802023-12-27T13:46:00.003+11:002023-12-27T13:58:47.818+11:00“Israel does not target civilians”<div><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":rag:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x1f6kntn xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">I am heartily sick of hearing apologists say "Israel doesn't target civilians." </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">So what? It's basically admitting, "Yes, they kill children but at least they didn't mean to." Even Hamas hasn't had the chutzpah to say, "It's their fault for living where we happened to be bombing." I am sure they would claim not to <i>target</i> civilians either, for all that would be worth.<br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">And yes, Hamas is a terrorist organisation. You will not hear any rationalisation of them from me. But is being semantically better than terrorists the best we can do? Is that the standard we are willing to walk past now? </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hamas is not Palestine any more than the Netanyahu government is Israel or Jewry as a whole.</span></h4><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Mossad is known to be extremely effective at counter-terrorism and surgical strikes. If the objective were to neutralise Hamas, it would be logical to deploy Mossad rather than the IDF. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">But that wouldn't look as strong to the domestic audience at a time when the prime minister, who has been in power on and off for over twenty five years, is mired in corruption scandals. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">It leads one to wonder whether the objective is to eliminate Hamas, or eliminate Palestine.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><br /></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-19719256525723570232023-12-17T21:40:00.001+11:002023-12-17T21:40:59.671+11:00Top 5 foodstuffs which need to stop trying to improve on perfection<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>Tim Tams</b></h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.ctfassets.net/qifm0zg3y057/2gApSwr3TfIl5rDOj69OfZ/705944c2051cfefe37e1c3b95b4d2e18/TimTam-BrandPage_FullBleed.jpg?fm=webp&q=80" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://images.ctfassets.net/qifm0zg3y057/2gApSwr3TfIl5rDOj69OfZ/705944c2051cfefe37e1c3b95b4d2e18/TimTam-BrandPage_FullBleed.jpg?fm=webp&q=80" width="320" /></a></div>Perhaps the ultimate example of getting it right the very first time. <br /><br />First, you take a biscuit (or cookie, if you’re American) along the lines of a Malt or a Malt-O-Milk. On its own, one of the most boring biscuits this side of Milk Coffee. But glue two of them together with some chocolaty icing and dunk the whole shebang in chocolate (milk or dark – we’re ecumenical) and you’ve got one of the closest things to perfection on God’s brown Earth. <br /><br />You can make it different for sure, by adding some mint oil or berry flavour, but you will never make it better. Don’t add gooey caramel. One of the many beauties of the Tim Tam is they are not gooey. Who in their right mind looked at this pinnacle of human achievement and said, “Needs to be gooier”? Evidently, many people are not in their right mind and said just this.<br /><br />Double coated? Too much of a good thing. Now you’re in the realm of a slab of chocolate with a bit of biscuit hidden inside. Fair enough if you’re into that kind of thing but a Tim Tam it ain’t. <br /><br />“But Bill!” you cry, “These varieties are all very popular. Explain that, smartarse!” <br /><br />I can and I will with one little acronym: FOMO. You’re sure they can’t possibly be better than the original, but how can you be certain? You have to try them to prove it to yourself.<br /><br />Just as the Amish build a deliberate mistake into each of their quilts because only God is perfect, the original Tim Tam remains just one step away from perfection: The regular package contains eleven pieces. Did you notice the deliberate mistake? Eleven is a prime number! The only way to evenly share a packet of Tim Tams is one each among eleven people, or eleven each among one person. <br /><br />Wait a sec! Maybe they are perfect after all!<br /><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Oreos</h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1200/1*-Q2u9C1n2hYnZsFlvbA6QQ.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="181" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1200/1*-Q2u9C1n2hYnZsFlvbA6QQ.png" width="320" /></a></div>America’s favourite sandwich cookie which has taken over the world makes the same mistake Tim Tams do. <br /><br />Start with two chocolate (or at least very dark brown to give the impression of chocolate) biscuits (oh, alright then, cookies) and bind them together with creamy vanilla-ish substance so close to the edge of being describable as ‘food’ that even the manufacturers are content to simply call it “stuff.” That’s it. Job done. Meet you after 5 to count our profits. <br /><br />Oh no, we have to introduce varieties. Like the double stuff, which is closer to 150% than 200%, which messes up the ratio. Or the inside-out, with vanilla cookies around brown stuff. Now let’s put the brown stuff inside the brown cookies. Or we’ll do half and half, brown and white. Maybe add fruit flavours. Hell, why not go the full double-down and stick one between a couple of chicken tenders?<br /><br />If any of these had been a good idea, they would have done that first. But they didn’t and we all know why.<br /><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">M&Ms</h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/sporked.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/BEST-MM-FLAVOR-RANKING_JORDAN-MYRICK_SPORKED_HEADER.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="181" src="https://i0.wp.com/sporked.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/BEST-MM-FLAVOR-RANKING_JORDAN-MYRICK_SPORKED_HEADER.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1" width="320" /></a></div>As a Gen-X Australian, I grew up with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties" target="_blank">Smarties</a> as the default when it comes to sugar-coated pellets of chocolate. M&Ms seemed like the knock-off when they invaded in the 80s. I am willing to concede the match now. <br /><br />However, M&Ms need to concede the fact there’s only so much you can do with this model. <br /><br />First, they added peanuts. I guess that’s okay if you need a protein hit with your sugar rush but I never got it. <br /><br />Then there came crispy M&Ms. I have to grant them this. The idea that sugar-coated chocolate could be improved by hiding a rice bubble inside sounds ridiculous. In fact, it <i>is</i> ridiculous. But I have to admit, they are the best. <br /><br />Beyond this though, they need to stop. Coconut or honeycomb M&Ms just mean the disappointment melts in your mouth, not in your hand. And candy corn M&Ms prove that just because two things might be great on their own, doesn’t mean they ever should be combined. I love chocolate, I love vegemite. I have never wanted to taste the two together. (see below)<br /><br />Smarties have never tried this. They were named well. Plus, they come in purple!<br /><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Twisties</h3><p style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrGe078SCnbl3NR2qtveZPsxOJUoFz3ghdoNEYcprbHRkZYBw9I2GMIvEwcKuiULFpOl3fQ2NI0WgxFm3YTdcewm0QQNVmPnJx-98PKawmwGkvGg8NmQInXZhHvOOkOl2RwzzujNyAD-CGZZ2MhqDai1TY7wtQ5tprobr7ARltuiYSmEM22i4a0aEAMvz1/s428/Twisties.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="339" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrGe078SCnbl3NR2qtveZPsxOJUoFz3ghdoNEYcprbHRkZYBw9I2GMIvEwcKuiULFpOl3fQ2NI0WgxFm3YTdcewm0QQNVmPnJx-98PKawmwGkvGg8NmQInXZhHvOOkOl2RwzzujNyAD-CGZZ2MhqDai1TY7wtQ5tprobr7ARltuiYSmEM22i4a0aEAMvz1/w158-h200/Twisties.png" width="158" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Stop this. Now!</b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>There are many versions and shapes of cheese flavoured fried rice starch – Cheezles, Cheetos, et al. Twisties said, bugger the shape, just squeeze that shit straight into the oil and let it come out however. We’ll make the flaw the feature! And we’ll do a chicken flavour to start fights all over the country about which is better, proving we’re a national icon. <br /><br />So far, so tasty. And every once in a while, they’ll do a barbecue or hot & spicy flavour which fits inside their brief. <br /><br />But who said the only way to make Twisties better would be to make them taste like a strawberry doughnut? Nobody has ever been that stoned, to either think of it or consider eating them. You’re taking the piss, Twisties. Stop it!<br /><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Vegemite</h3><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://mumbrella.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-12.56.22-PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="298" height="320" src="https://mumbrella.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-12.56.22-PM.png" width="134" /></a></div>Vegemite is another food which divides people. You either love it, or you’re wrong. <br /><br />This section is not about trying to improve vegemite, but trying to improve things <i>with</i> vegemite. <br /><br />Nobody over 5 eats vegemite directly from the jar. It is, by its nature, an additive. You can add it to toast, to sandwiches, to cheese, to crackers, to gravy, to anything you like. So, if you want to add it, you will. <br /><br />We may have become so soft as a species that a 6-hour internet outage can ruin everyone’s week, but we are not yet so dependent that we can’t add our own vegemite thank you very much!<br /><br />If anyone was ever high enough to want to add vegemite to <a href="https://www.adnews.com.au/news/mondelez-marketing-boss-comes-clean-on-cadbury-vegemite" target="_blank">chocolate</a>, to <a href="https://www.arnotts.com/brands/shapes" target="_blank">Shapes</a>, to a <a href="https://www.coles.com.au/product/coles-rspca-approved-vegemite-hot-roast-chicken-1-each-5612365">roast chicken</a> (I am not making any of these up), then they would. 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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I never tell
anyone how I vote. Anyone who has known me for more than a day can probably
take an educated guess but I will not say if they are right or wrong because I
respect the secret ballot. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Likewise, I
will never tell anyone else how I think they should vote. I will share the
information I have and offer my perspective on the issues but after that, I
encourage you to vote whichever way you want. This is not a euphemism. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This brings
us to The Voice Referendum. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It seems to me
to be a simple case of</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_about_us_without_us" target="_blank">Nothing about us without us.</a></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I think we
can all agree it is fundamentally unfair to make laws affecting people without
consultation and representation of the people it affects. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Our American
friends had a major discussion on this topic around 250 years ago. And while
the solution they came up with was a million miles from perfect, I don’t think
anyone would deny they were on the right side of history. It was certainly a
step in the right direction, which has since been improved upon, albeit not
enough. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The <a href="https://aec.gov.au/referendums/learn/the-question.html" target="_blank">question</a>
being put at this referendum is: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">“A Proposed
Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by
establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice [to parliament]</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Do you
approve of this proposed alteration?”</span></i></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">If passed,
the new section of the Constitution will be this: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">129
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">In
recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First
Peoples of Australia:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> i<span>
</span>there shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Voice;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> ii<span>
</span>the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations
to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth on matters
relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> iii<span>
</span>the Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make
laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures. </span></span></p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">That’s all. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It is not a
third chamber of parliament.<br />It does not
have veto power.<br />It cannot
legislate. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It will not
take your backyard away or close down your golf course. Some of us are old
enough to remember when Native Title was going to take people’s back yards and
kick farmers off their land. In the 30 years since then, the only groups who
have succeeded in doing this have been mining and energy companies, and they
didn’t use Native Title to do it. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">There are
some valid counter-arguments to the Voice: <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">One is that
parliament is there to represent all Australians. By rights, the Voice should
be redundant. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">However, no
matter how well we choose our representatives (and we never do), all they have
to go on is their own experience and what they hear from their constituents. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">We all
laughed when Tony Abbott as prime minister appointed himself as both Minister
for Women and Minister for Indigenous Affairs. His response was that there’s no
reason why a man should not be able to represent women. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">In the
abstract, he was right. In a perfect world, any man should be able to
understand women and women’s issues enough to represent them. However, we live in
this world. I have always considered myself fairly right-on and understanding
but it still took me until my mid-40s to realise the fact I will never have to
wonder about whether the outfit I choose to wear to the pub might one day be
introduced as evidence for the defence. If it took a woke bloke like me half a
lifetime to work that out, what hope does a 1950s throwback like Tony Abbott
have? Why not just ask a woman?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Likewise,
despite my best efforts and intentions, I will never truly understand the
Indigenous experience, the connection to the land, the spirituality, the
intergenerational trauma. The best I can do is listen to those who know and
learn from what they tell me. It’s not much, but it’s a start. </p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Another
counterpoint is that everyone has the right to make representations to
parliament through their MPs. Many do already. Multinational corporations do it
through spending millions of dollars on lobbyists to get to the front of the
queue and make their case directly to government. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So at most, the
Voice would give Indigenous communities equal ability to influence government
policy as Rio Tinto, News Corp, Price Waterhouse Coopers, or Google. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">If that idea
scares you, I would politely ask you to reflect on why. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It is worth
looking again at part ii of the proposed Section 129: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">ii the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to the
Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth on matters relating
to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples;</span></span></blockquote><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">That’s all.
The Voice <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">may</i> make representations
should it choose to. Nothing more. If it chooses to, the government has to
listen. Having listened, it may adjust policy or do exactly what it was
planning to before. This is the point made by those who argue the Voice doesn’t
go far enough. Plus, part iii gives the Parliament (and therefore the
government of the day) the right to choose the makeup of the Voice. To me, this
is the most problematic aspect. Both problems can be solved by electing better
people. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Then there
is the argument that having a Voice divides people by race. If that concerns
you, I would direct your attention to sections 25 and 51(xxvi) which have been
in place since federation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">25.
<a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/Constitution/chapter1/Part_III_-_The_House_of_Representatives#chapter-01_part-03_25" target="_blank">Provisions as to races disqualified from voting</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">For the purposes
of the last section, if by the law of any State all persons of any race are
disqualified from voting at elections for the more numerous House of the
Parliament of the State, then, in reckoning the number of the people of the
State or of the Commonwealth, persons of that race resident in that State shall
not be counted.</span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">51.
<a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/Constitution/chapter1/Part_V_-_Powers_of_the_Parliament#chapter-01_part-05_51">Legislative powers of the Parliament</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">The
Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the
peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to:<br />…<br />(xxvi) the
people of any race, <u>other than the aboriginal race in any State</u>,
</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[underlined wording added in 1967]</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> for whom it is deemed necessary to make
special laws;</span></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I have yet
to see anyone who claims the Voice is racist have any disagreement with, or
even awareness of, these two sections. If they want them repealed, fair enough.
If not, why not? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">These are
the issues as I see them. If you still don’t know, find out. This screen you’re
looking at right now is the greatest source of information since the printing
press. Use it. Talk to the people it affects. Ask them questions and listen to
their answers. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Then, vote
your conscience. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-78828859074131413022023-09-15T23:32:00.003+10:002023-09-15T23:32:41.073+10:00Hunter Biden Indicted <p> The most delicious thing about the indictment of Hunter Biden this week is the fact it’s under a law which the very people who have wanted him indicted for no other reason than being Joe Biden’s son, believe to be unconstitutional. </p><p><br /></p><p>His right to keep and bear arms is being infringed. And rightly so too! I don’t want drug addicts getting guns, do you?</p><p><br /></p><p>While the MAGA cult is dancing in the virtual streets over this, I don’t think it’s the home run for them they think it is. </p><p><br /></p><p>Having found nothing even vaguely impeachable in Joe Biden’s character, they went after his, shall we say, “troubled” son. They accused him of everything from peddling influence and taking bribes to international espionage. And what did they finally get him on? GUN CONTROL! It’s perfect!</p><p><br /></p><p>Now don’t get me wrong, if Hunter Biden lied in order to illegally obtain a firearm then he should absolutely be prosecuted and, if found guilty, punished appropriately. Do it tomorrow!</p><p><br /></p><p>And if this is what it takes to make the lunar right understand that gun control is important, then that’s great! It’s sure as hell better than another dozen dead school kids, which we already know isn’t going isn’t going to change their minds anyway. </p><p><br /></p><p>If the MAGA nuts are willing to flip on their professed principles for the sake of scoring a political hit, as they always do, and support the enacting and enforcement of common sense gun control laws, then thank you Hunter Biden. Thank you for your service, however unintentional and dim witted it may have been. </p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-43038333458328779792023-07-09T11:47:00.002+10:002023-07-10T08:35:43.004+10:00It’s the spectrum which has shifted <p></p>I’ve said for many years that it’s not just the right wing which has slid further to the right, the entire political spectrum has shifted significantly to the right over the last 30 years. <br /><br />There is ample evidence of this. The fact that anyone can be taken seriously when describing the most token progressive policies of the Biden administration or the Albanese government as not only ‘left wing’ but even ‘socialist’ or ‘communist’ proves the words have lost all meaning. <br /><br />My favourite metric is former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Fraser went from being considered a right wing ogre (or titan, depending on your point of view) in the mid-70s, to being viewed as a bleeding-heart leftie by his own party at the time of his death in 2015. This happened without Fraser ever significantly changing his values or views. It’s just that at the time of his leadership, treating refugees like human beings had bipartisan support. <br /><br />In the US, Ronald Reagan is treated as a deity of the Republican Party but even Reagan would be too liberal for today’s Republican Party – and Reagan was in no way liberal. Hell, even today’s Democratic Party would think twice, and they had the best Republican candidate of the 21st century in Hillary Clinton. Don’t believe me? She loves Wall St money, she’s never seen a war she didn’t want to join, she campaigned on a platform on manifest destiny, she’s crap with technology… <a href="https://the-billablog.blogspot.com/2020/10/vote-your-conscience.html" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton is a Republican</a>! <br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b>Let’s be absolutely clear about one thing: Mark Zuckerberg is still the socially inept moral vacuum he has always been.</b></span><br /><br />And this brings us to the launch of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/meta-launches-twitter-rival-threads-in-100-countries" target="_blank">Threads</a>, Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter clone, this week. <br /><br />There have been numerous Twitter copies, most of which were launched well before Elon Musk’s takeover but they all got quite a boost afterwards. All of them have been fairly forgettable in their own ways. The bulk of them were set up as safe spaces for the hard right, including Parler, Gab, GETTR and Trump’s Truth Social. Others such as Mastodon have no particular agenda beyond freedom from tech giants, and it’s this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse" target="_blank">Fediverse</a> model that both Jack Dorsey’s <a href="https://bsky.app/" target="_blank">BlueSky</a> and Zuckerberg’s Threads are based on. </p><p>The problem with all of them is that non-famous social media users have to rebuild their networks from scratch. Zuckerberg’s masterstroke has been in tying Threads to Instagram, which still has youth appeal, instead of Facebook which, let’s be honest, is social media for your mum. Threads does not yet have all the functionality of Twitter but it surely will by the end of the year. <br /><br />Musk’s destruction of Twitter has been so complete, you would almost think it was deliberate if not for the fact that Musk is not nearly as smart as he or his fanbois think he is. <br /><br />Virtually every feature of Twitter, which are now considered basic functions, was added in response to how people actually wanted to use the service. It started out as simply a method of sending an SMS to the public. @-replies, hashtags, retweets, photos, videos, quote tweets and threading were all started by Twitter users. The platform responded by making them functional, and killed off third-party services like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwitPic" target="_blank">TwitPic</a> and <a href="https://www.twitlonger.com/" target="_blank">TwitLonger</a>. <br /><br />Musk’s biggest mistake in his management of Twitter hasn’t even been letting trolls and misinformation back on the platform in the name of a disingenuous interpretation of free speech. His biggest mistake has been in trying to mandate how members use the service. Every successful website evolves and adapts to its users’ interests. That’s why clickable hashtags have spread to every social media service (except Threads, for now) and you no longer get interminable Farmville requests on Facebook. Musk, like the bore who thinks he knows how to run the education system because he went to school, expects everyone to use Twitter the way he wants to use it. <br /><br />And that brings us back to the shift of spectrum. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0evy8Ex4Iob3sN_CMbIWeQKGD4d2oRIFYC2rMrKz9N2EL2uYWdGQFOsZ9SOX7sDiAxBCsjEfAvbhUMcUXJyfYQws7FN8At4cmj2uTMN8d7jPNH7FZda4XoMsiVnJxAi6uqoSMDAmSfQF25fn5s2wbxnYQYujwSXLIMnWgc039yZsEMQM-paZxr6ipykuJ/s720/Screenshot_20230708-151759_Threads.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="720" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0evy8Ex4Iob3sN_CMbIWeQKGD4d2oRIFYC2rMrKz9N2EL2uYWdGQFOsZ9SOX7sDiAxBCsjEfAvbhUMcUXJyfYQws7FN8At4cmj2uTMN8d7jPNH7FZda4XoMsiVnJxAi6uqoSMDAmSfQF25fn5s2wbxnYQYujwSXLIMnWgc039yZsEMQM-paZxr6ipykuJ/w200-h178/Screenshot_20230708-151759_Threads.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>All the trolls and MAGA nuts who worship Musk for taking a hands-off approach to bigotry and misinformation (but an iron-fist approach to criticising him or linking to competing websites) are now acting like Zuckerberg’s Threads is going to take all the remaining sensible people away from Twitter to have their data sucked away by Big Tech. <br /><br />They seem to have forgotten it was Zuckerberg and Facebook who aided and abetted foreign actors to <a href="https://the-billablog.blogspot.com/2019/10/i-read-mueller-report.html" target="_blank">interfere</a> in the 2016 US Presidential election by spreading [checks notes] misinformation to help their other hero Donald Trump take the White House. Now somehow Zuckerberg has joined the “woke mob.” <br /><br />Let’s be absolutely clear about one thing: Mark Zuckerberg is still the socially inept moral vacuum he has always been. It’s just that even he can read the room better than Elon Musk. And the market too. There’s no profit in incels thinking you’re cool. <br /><br />Angry Aussie said it best here:<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjegwPKRdD9o8xRCpRHRtRtZJaAtOg-ffIXGXep53vArXFhK1vD7OisVBqkU0Gf0_n7JcyR10E-nBSgbFYf-VHsTVWJ_ozyyWChenV3CT3TS5ZOXYLMpfiHeehNiWSqnMfqz7jWTs7HbORqR4Im1qAN8QPTvEDMKXdfepRGcMJwXHAo7EkelpJEe6qg8qkA/s719/AngryAussie_20230708-120751_Threads.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="719" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjegwPKRdD9o8xRCpRHRtRtZJaAtOg-ffIXGXep53vArXFhK1vD7OisVBqkU0Gf0_n7JcyR10E-nBSgbFYf-VHsTVWJ_ozyyWChenV3CT3TS5ZOXYLMpfiHeehNiWSqnMfqz7jWTs7HbORqR4Im1qAN8QPTvEDMKXdfepRGcMJwXHAo7EkelpJEe6qg8qkA/s320/AngryAussie_20230708-120751_Threads.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>There is also the valid concern over all the spyware attached to Facebook/Meta’s services. Twitter has less and Mastodon currently has none, but Tik Tok. But if personal privacy is important to you, what are you doing on social media at all? Facebook’s advertising algorithm currently thinks I’m interested in curvy girl sportswear, diva cups, and Goop-esque crystal spoons, so I’m not too bothered that they know too much about me. As for the ads for guitars and sound equipment? Bring it on!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5_nF6yRz6rF6bEpGV-2qgtVfr53Stqoryxg30DJ6H6qsc0FkLdXoTS5dI_l-neegNffUIC0WOKMtghK64vxTKCMdnijPQbMVgcmyDKPLGuQOaySfdFdUYZizQkH24pO1jejla3amkUq2jyiR6xF3W2qMpYDVTrQchKDkjHk5AOUTmDUeh8sqrO52daLP5/s828/Screenshot_20230709-095325_Threads.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="720" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5_nF6yRz6rF6bEpGV-2qgtVfr53Stqoryxg30DJ6H6qsc0FkLdXoTS5dI_l-neegNffUIC0WOKMtghK64vxTKCMdnijPQbMVgcmyDKPLGuQOaySfdFdUYZizQkH24pO1jejla3amkUq2jyiR6xF3W2qMpYDVTrQchKDkjHk5AOUTmDUeh8sqrO52daLP5/w174-h200/Screenshot_20230709-095325_Threads.jpg" width="174" /></a>Musk’s biggest shift on Twitter has been to move it away from what the users want to what he would like it to be. In doing do, he has done Zuckerberg a massive favour. It has dragged Zuckerberg away from the <a href="https://voi.id/en/technology/115231" target="_blank">metaverse</a> nonsense he’s been obsessed with recently (which was turning him into a joke) and back to giving the people what they want – a microblogging platform which is free to use, you don’t have to rebuild your networks from scratch, you don’t have to wait months for an invitation, and maybe even fewer fascists. <br /><br />So, I guess, Thanks Elon?</p><p><br /> <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /></p><br />Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-859116049810074492023-03-09T08:58:00.005+11:002023-03-09T09:08:54.476+11:00A difference of opinion<p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Does pineapple belong on a pizza?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">That’s a
difference of opinion.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">But if you
try to tell me the attack on the US Capitol of January 6<sup>th</sup>, 2021 was
simply a peaceful protest which was reported misleadingly by the emessem, that
is not a difference of opinion. That is to deny objective truth.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">If you think
Tucker Carlson’s bowdlerised recut of footage released exclusively to him by a
new House Speaker who has already proven he <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/house-speaker-spectacle-continues-mccarthy-faces-fourth-day-voting">cares more about his personal ambition</a> than the good of both his country and his party, is just a different
point of view, then your opinion is worthless.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Carlson
himself has been outed by <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/tucker-carlson-text-messages-dominion-lawsuit-fox-news.html" target="_blank">subpoenaed text messages</a> as someone who would rather
lie to his audience than lose that audience to even bigger psychopaths. Those
of us who understand that objective truth is still a real thing knew this long
ago but it’s something else to have it confirmed by the horse’s ass’s mouth. Even
liars can tell the truth sometimes, but nobody should ever believe them without
confirming sources.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">There is an
old adage that if one side says it’s raining and another side says it’s sunny,
it’s not journalism’s role to report both statements equally; it’s journalisms
role to open a bloody window and see who’s lying.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">You can blather
on about the hidden agenda of CNN, or The New York Times, or any outlet whose
name doesn’t have an X at the end all you like. But if you choose to believe
the one voice claiming it’s sunny outside, then why are you still dripping wet?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">If you think
pineapple is a valid pizza topping, then I respect your opinion. If you don’t,
that’s okay too. We can all get along.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">If you tell
me the events at the US Capitol on January 6<sup>th</sup>, 2021 were anything
less than a coup attempt, egged on by the outgoing president himself, that is
not a valid opinion. I am going to tell you you’re wrong and I’m going to tell
you why.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-sWQ8CHRmCGQVYCBUDE0IuQP8JknalTmMZ-a5kekIF9Z_OBCpiSw8T8MSkxERrolhorwuyRsC8QLpn0Z7Lml8JinoHwLay10MOk7khRAwYsoQ8oBy6bYvpR3rfLmJ_I3tOjXZegeYUCBWngfzNt3IC7JRG4E2dw0yGA5e4auyUcrKDZQzxsyCtYtMg/s1244/January%206th%20Insurrection.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1244" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-sWQ8CHRmCGQVYCBUDE0IuQP8JknalTmMZ-a5kekIF9Z_OBCpiSw8T8MSkxERrolhorwuyRsC8QLpn0Z7Lml8JinoHwLay10MOk7khRAwYsoQ8oBy6bYvpR3rfLmJ_I3tOjXZegeYUCBWngfzNt3IC7JRG4E2dw0yGA5e4auyUcrKDZQzxsyCtYtMg/w400-h260/January%206th%20Insurrection.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">This was not a peaceful protest</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9hAjknD7-tkNCIJsatqMOhk6e5AvRbrg_QQWuNrfZw7ml4UEfT9QZNH_0EP71zE96CjrYN2h6Ut5RWczyCLeO3vXfypWRSuzWIeuovZh7Oq22qD7WhSfF8KqKSeK_PdansrIfqDqqVIYrBTrLQXlqcB5J8FGsCnxM3VzvPT1hfI0bGkMKRdf9C8y-g/s3000/Pineapple%20on%20a%20Pizza.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="3000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9hAjknD7-tkNCIJsatqMOhk6e5AvRbrg_QQWuNrfZw7ml4UEfT9QZNH_0EP71zE96CjrYN2h6Ut5RWczyCLeO3vXfypWRSuzWIeuovZh7Oq22qD7WhSfF8KqKSeK_PdansrIfqDqqVIYrBTrLQXlqcB5J8FGsCnxM3VzvPT1hfI0bGkMKRdf9C8y-g/w400-h266/Pineapple%20on%20a%20Pizza.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Your mileage may vary</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-70576952815395468972023-02-28T11:58:00.001+11:002023-02-28T14:43:04.677+11:00True confessions of Generation X<p>They say that in all the generation wars (which are phoney
anyway) Generation X (1965 to 1980) are the forgotten generation.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And that’s the way it ought to be.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We were the ones who were supposed to bring in a kinder,
more caring community. But five minutes in, most of us got disillusioned and
gave up. And despite all our rage, we’re still just a rat in a cage.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile, a lot of the conservatives we like to dismiss as
boomers yearning for the past are in fact, Generation X.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Scott Morrison was born in 1968.<br />Peter Dutton, 1970.<br />Liz Truss, 1975.<br />Ron DeSantis, 1978. That’s right, the guy who is taking the
Florida education system back to the 19<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">th</span> century isn’t even 45 yet!<br />Rishi Sunak, right on the cusp having been born in 1980. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You could accuse me of cherry-picking the worst examples but
who else do we have, Liam Gallagher?</p><p class="MsoNormal">It wasn’t supposed to be this way, but these were the go-getters of our
generation and we let it happen. This is on us. WB Yeats could have been
thinking about Gen-X when he wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t hate boomers. I don’t hate millennials. I hate
Generation X.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">… which is about the most Gen-X thing you can do. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-72565334940937067382022-12-30T11:21:00.002+11:002022-12-30T12:06:09.444+11:00I read 12 Rules for Life<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEAh7uO-Y8uxMTN28ZCw8K3jcGweHMO8Gh0VrbMXtbAL2XEWXBBiVcnBrD3-LzeQxccBtb8J-uX-7LEgw3XqpKZwVPkBd5xHae_eCSrWuGjlZd43F_bVBN-Vjc9bhHGt1GlfLiLw1LmShm0aQL8stEeqe39VDzD7dNI971YY790lP-lz8lG1EZ_OiVCw/s450/30257963.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="299" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEAh7uO-Y8uxMTN28ZCw8K3jcGweHMO8Gh0VrbMXtbAL2XEWXBBiVcnBrD3-LzeQxccBtb8J-uX-7LEgw3XqpKZwVPkBd5xHae_eCSrWuGjlZd43F_bVBN-Vjc9bhHGt1GlfLiLw1LmShm0aQL8stEeqe39VDzD7dNI971YY790lP-lz8lG1EZ_OiVCw/s320/30257963.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /> …and I didn’t completely hate it. Until I did. <br /><br />Each year, I try to read a book which has been widely discussed as being terrible, so as to have an independent opinion on it. This year’s selection was Dr Jordan B Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life, subtitled ‘An Antidote to Chaos.’<br /><br />In the introduction, sorry, “overture,” 🙄 he explains how the book grew out of Quora contributions. This makes perfect sense. There’s nothing particularly wrong with the “rules” as they exist in chapter headings. It would probably have made a pretty good long-form listicle but instead, he had a book deal and 400 pages to fill. This means that in describing, explaining and justifying each “rule,” he goes off on bizarre tangents which can end up turning what started out as reasonable suggestions into very, very bad advice. <br /><br />As mentioned, I did not hate this book straight away. Up until about half way through, I was willing to give Dr Peterson the benefit of the doubt that like, say, Morrissey or Glenn Greenwald, he had started out reasonable (if challenging) and then become so addicted to his own iconoclasm as to lose all perspective. <br /><br />Yeah, nah. <br /><br />Dr Peterson’s rambling justifications for his rules boil down into three categories: psychological, evolutionary, and Biblical. In fact, as a psychologist, he makes a fascinating Biblical scholar. I say that in all sincerity. It’s in his interpretation of evolution that he really starts to come a cropper. He dances dangerously close to eugenics but despite this, maintains deep sympathy for men who find themselves at the unfortunate end of natural selection. It’s easy to see why he is the intellectual of choice for young men who want to blame women for denying them sexual gratification. <br /><br />So let’s address the misogyny directly. It’s clear that Dr Peterson is deeply enamoured of what some might call “traditional values,” particularly when it comes to gender roles, and defines “chaos” as anything which doesn’t conform to these narrow definitions. As such, he delves deep into the animal world for examples of gender inequality. These examples are undeniable of course, except for the fact that humans, while also products of evolution, are not animals. We have evolved to a point where animal behaviour like eating one’s own vomit, procreating in public, and infanticide are now frowned upon. I’m sure Dr Peterson would not advocate for any of those things. We have also reached a point where we can control our own development, meaning if anyone should wish to do a job traditionally delegated to the other gender, they can, and why shouldn’t they?<br /><br />This is a book written by a man, about men, for men. In Dr Peterson’s view, it’s man’s world. Women just live in it and men tragically have to live with them. At one point he denies the patriarchy exists because a man invented tampons. In the next chapter he says the patriarchy absolutely exists and that’s just the natural order of things.<br /><br />And this is the point where he falls into the perennial trap of using his qualification to justify what are little more than feelpinions. In defining order as masculine and chaos as feminine, he makes the assumption that his experiences are more valid than anyone else’s for no other reason than that he has experienced them or indeed, is capable of experiencing it. It’s as ridiculous as a woman saying a knee to the groin doesn’t really hurt on the grounds that she doesn’t find it too painful so the rest must all be male drama. There is a good reason no woman has ever said this. <br /><br />Throughout the book, Peterson reiterates what a big fan he is of Freud. It’s ironic that not since Freud has anyone inadvertently revealed so much about himself while professing to speak about others.<br /><br />It’s not to say that there aren’t nuggets of wisdom in here. To set your house in perfect order before you criticise the world is undoubtedly good advice. I look forward to a time when Dr Peterson takes it. <br /> <br /> <p></p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-85990727039250030862021-12-27T21:49:00.005+11:002021-12-27T21:49:57.804+11:00Review: The Case for Courage<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41uDn4kFbNL.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="317" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41uDn4kFbNL.jpg" width="127" /></a>Alright, I know Kevin Rudd is problematic. He’s the policy wonk who got ideas above his station in a way that even ending a decade of regressive Liberal government wasn’t enough to make up for. He was torn down by his supporters and then, as if to justify their action, did everything he could to destroy those who tore him down, even if it meant destroying his legacy at the same time. <br /></div><br />We can only wonder how much better off we would be if Rudd had been the policy brains behind Julia Gillard’s political nous, but here we are. As he points out in this pamphlet though, first you have to win elections, and the fact remains Rudd is the only Labor leader to ever win a majority in the last quarter century. At some point, we have to face up to that fact and the reasons behind it. <br /><br />So yes, Rudd is problematic but for all that, everyone should read this. It is effectively an alternative manifesto for the ALP and it’s one they should take very seriously. It contains many ideas both rusted-on Labor-right and the progressive left will find, well, courageous, but it’s hard to fault any of them. In fact, if Paul Keating had written this very document – as he well could have – all the Gen X Labor fanbois would be all over it, and rightly so. <br /><br />There are plenty of potential Gotcha! moments. He calls out the bully boy tactics of the Murdoch media and proposes standing up to them in a way he completely neglected to do when in government. He returns to a pragmatically compassionate refugee intake – the one he threw out the window in 2013 for a chance at leading Labor to a third term. There is also no small amount of score-settling and told-you-so moments, from the early stimulus of the GFC to the NBN, and the truth is, he’s perfectly justified in doing so.<br /><br />The contradictions are there for all to see but I encourage you to look beyond the chance to shout Aha! and judge the policies and tactics on their merits. Although it’s personal, not official, this is the most mature and forward-thinking policy document I’ve read since, well, since Kevin07. <br /><br /><p style="text-align: left;"></p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-45501267631844009502021-10-17T14:18:00.005+11:002021-10-18T21:27:50.033+11:00The Bonus Discs - Let It Be<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3vgwV7O" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1208" data-original-width="993" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D8c03OU8ba0/YWuSLTazUqI/AAAAAAAAFds/AkUo4CSdACYVTKYW_5MvxoWpJvv3UW1egCLcBGAsYHQ/w262-h320/Let_It_Be_Deluxe_2021.jpg" width="262" /></a></div>Regardless of the new evidence in the companion book and Peter Jackson’s re-cut of the film, that the experience wasn’t as bad as we’ve all been led to believe. <b>Let It Be</b> remains The Beatles’ most difficult album, both during and after its making. <br /><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">Giles Martin’s new mix of the album is a subtle tweaking rather than a full reimagining. Phil Spector’s orchestrations are still in there. Martin states in the notes that Spector’s mix lacked the sensitivity of George Martin but created a sound of its own which had to be respected. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Personally, I can’t fault Phil Spector for doing what he did to the original Let It Be. The fact he did not share the same vision as The Beatles should have been obvious. The Beatles had washed their hands of the project a year earlier and Spector was handed weeks’ worth of tapes to create something of releasable quality from. He did this the only way he knew how, which was to turn it into a Phil Spector record. I can blame him for being a creepy, abusive murderer but I can’t blame him for doing the job he was hired to do. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Back to the new mix though, and the differences are very subtle – almost to the point of being imperceptible. I played the <a href="https://amzn.to/3APtFkI" target="_blank">2009 remaster</a> immediately afterwards to compare and I was hard pressed to tell the difference. Spector’s syrup is dialled back a bit but not all that much. In any case, if you want to hear the de-Spectored version, there’s <a href="https://amzn.to/2XnMcaq" target="_blank">Let It Be… Naked</a>, and the Glyn Johns mix, more of which later. <br /><br />Discs 2 and 3 are split between actual takes, and rehearsals and jams. The content could have fitted on one disc but it makes sense to split, partly because there’s a different theme and partly because this album makes you expect 35 to 40-minute bites. <br /><br />Because of the live-in-the-studio ethos of the project, the outtakes and rehearsals are the kind of thing that reward repeated listening rather than being mere curios. <br /><br />Disc 4 is what we’ve really been waiting for though – the first official release of Glyn Johns’ mix of the proposed <b>Get Back</b> album. I haven’t heard any of the bootlegs so this was my first listen. It’s a great snapshot. For me, the problem with it is that it was only ever a work-in-progress mix. <i>Teddy Boy</i> could easily have been jettisoned and the full length version of <i>Dig It</i> was probably unnecessary. Get Back would surely have been tidied up for release if they had seen the project through. On the whole, I prefer the sound of Let It Be… Naked. And there is absolutely no reason why the Naked mix couldn’t have been included in this set. <br /><br />Disc 5 is a a 4-track EP. Why? I have no idea. It contains the original mix of <i>Across the Universe</i> (fair enough), the Glyn Johns mix of <i>I Mean Mine</i> complete with scratches (why?) plus new mixes of the single versions of <i>Don’t Let Me Down</i> and <i>Let It Be</i>. What the entire box doesn’t include is the original single version of <i>Get Bac</i>k, either as a remix or the original. Why not?<br /><br />And so to the Blu-ray which features the stereo mix in hi-res, DTS-HD 5.1 and Dolby Atmos. The surround mix is not mind-blowing but nor should it be. As it well documented, the whole point of the album was to ‘get back’ to basics so being flashy with the surround mix would be further going against the original intention. There also probably wasn’t much more you could do with it. For the most part, the arrangements are spread out a bit more which definitely helps hear details which have previously been buried in the stereo mixes. <br /><br />I did find the menu animations rather distracting and ended up turning the screen off. <br /><br />The book is beautiful and is particularly helpful in identifying takes. I hadn’t realised so much of Let It Be… Naked came from the same takes as the original album. I do wish they had saved a page in there for Tony Barrow’s sleeve notes for the Get Back album. The only place they appear in the whole package is on the back of the replica CD cover and it’s bloody hard to read the 4pt type. <br /><br /><b>Worth paying extra for? </b><br />Well, if you’re extremely lucky like I am and happen to have come into some birthday money recently, there are certainly more disappointing things you could spend it on. If you’re itching to hear the legendary Glyn Johns mix though, you could probably go to your nearest purveyor of bootlegs and still come out with enough change to afford the <a href="https://amzn.to/3AQ4lvd" target="_blank">Abbey Road</a> box set.<br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uQK1nM9bXOM/YWuSKDG7uiI/AAAAAAAAFdw/uTsidBMhfaolRSPUslQr6tQMRmOeSW6qACPcBGAYYCw/s1217/Let%2BIt%2BBe%2B1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="1217" height="141" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uQK1nM9bXOM/YWuSKDG7uiI/AAAAAAAAFdw/uTsidBMhfaolRSPUslQr6tQMRmOeSW6qACPcBGAYYCw/w400-h141/Let%2BIt%2BBe%2B1987.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Let It Be 1987 remaster</b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bz3zRV2dxKU/YWuSKGAag4I/AAAAAAAAFd0/jDa6wqtIUgsmtk6lJzCqdbnNP1GhwT_zQCPcBGAYYCw/s1212/Let%2BIt%2BBe%2B2009.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="1212" height="141" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bz3zRV2dxKU/YWuSKGAag4I/AAAAAAAAFd0/jDa6wqtIUgsmtk6lJzCqdbnNP1GhwT_zQCPcBGAYYCw/w400-h141/Let%2BIt%2BBe%2B2009.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Let It Be 2009 remaster</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G7PRvXt2xKA/YWuSKIVqz7I/AAAAAAAAFd0/17O8fTs9H-4Ic3p_kY0d338JGkOVUWHjQCPcBGAYYCw/s1214/Let%2BIt%2BBe%2B2021.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="1214" height="141" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G7PRvXt2xKA/YWuSKIVqz7I/AAAAAAAAFd0/17O8fTs9H-4Ic3p_kY0d338JGkOVUWHjQCPcBGAYYCw/w400-h141/Let%2BIt%2BBe%2B2021.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Let It Be 2021 remix<br /></b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-61552170359279858132021-08-23T21:53:00.001+10:002021-08-24T10:35:12.758+10:00Stories my father told me<p>Perhaps I’m getting old. After all, this will almost certainly be the last thing I write as an under-50. But one of the many unexpected consequences of the ongoing pandemic is it’s finally made me grateful for my father’s stories of hardship and deprivation growing up in the 1940s. <br /><br />Like the times he would be upset about one of his pet rabbits running away, but at least there was a decent stew for dinner that night. Or the time my grandmother was almost arrested for having a tiny hole in the sheet of iron they covered the window with during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(wartime)" target="_blank">blackout</a>. And the guilt he later felt for constantly asking her when Uncle Bill would be coming home and not understanding that the answer was, Never. <br /><br />Knowing what I know now about trauma, I feel terrible for internally rolling my eyes and thinking ‘Here he goes again,’ when the topics came up. <br /><br />So what’s this got to do with a pandemic eighty years later? <br />Perspective. That’s what. <br /><br />Hearing these stories from an early age, sometimes to the point of cliché, might possibly be the reason I have very little sympathy with anti-lockdown sentiment. <br /><br />It’s not a stretch to take some of the bad-faith arguments against lockdowns and apply them to wartime efforts. <br /><br /><i>“The government is telling us what we can eat, what we can spend our money on, how much fuel we can use, what we can write in letters and even when we can have the lights on. They tell us this is to defend our freedom but they’ve already taken all our freedom away. This is already a dictatorship. The question is how long we’re prepared to stand for being treated like this by our own representatives before we just learn to live with a foreign occupation.” </i><br /><br />The answer of course was, As long as it takes. And no-one in their right mind would suggest it wasn’t the right thing to do. <br /><br />Then there are those who don’t deny the risk of letting the virus spread but ask whether life is even worth living without being able to go to the footy, have pint of craft IPA after work, or go out for a smashed avocado brunch. That would be the same smashed avo which in the pre-pandemic times, some claimed was the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/15/australian-millionaire-millennials-avocado-toast-house" target="_blank">reason young people can’t afford a house</a>. Turns out it was actually an essential service and a pillar of the economy. <br /><br />The question of a life worth living is one I would be interested to ask the great uncle I’m named after. It’s not for me to say, but in the scheme of things I suspect he wouldn’t mind spending a few months or even a few years stuck at home without being able to go to the gym or the mall. We’ll never know because he was killed in New Guinea at the age of 23. <br /><br />He shouldn’t have been there. As a conscript, he couldn’t be sent overseas but he volunteered on the promise of having better opportunies when he came home. He bet his life on a better future and lost. Even then, he should have been on leave at the time but had traded with a mate. A life worth living? <br /><br />None of this is to minimise the very real trauma people are experiencing over lockdown. My wife is from the US. She hasn’t seen her parents in nearly four years and there’s no chance of that changing any time soon. If she goes to visit them, there’s a serious possibility she won’t be allowed back into Australia. Even so, she is considering it because they are not getting any younger. It’s a terrible choice to have to make. <br /><br />Any interruption to life as you know it, or expect it to be, is traumatic. Even the ones which used to be tagged #FirstWorldProblems. No-one will come out of COVID unscathed and knowing that you’re not living through a war is of no real comfort. <br /><br />What can be of comfort is practicing gratitude. Today, I’m grateful for the Afghan refugees I work with, and for the stories Dad would bore me with so often. Both offer some perspective.<br /> <br /> <br /><br /> </p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-68889935112120122272021-06-27T17:39:00.004+10:002021-06-28T08:45:48.170+10:00I’ve had a gutful of Pauline HansonRupert Murdoch’s main New South Wales masthead The Daily Terrorgraph published yet another puff piece with “controversial pollie” Pauline Hanson last Saturday. The headline promises she will speak to the media, again, about how terribly she has been treated by [checks notes] the media.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_OMiYHOv3I/YNgqthY5eVI/AAAAAAAAFYs/S6TzMwRnWJIVHH33uGd7t6T65Kw3XYGLwCLcBGAsYHQ/s574/The_Daily_Terrorgraph_Pauline_Hanson.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="574" height="305" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_OMiYHOv3I/YNgqthY5eVI/AAAAAAAAFYs/S6TzMwRnWJIVHH33uGd7t6T65Kw3XYGLwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h305/The_Daily_Terrorgraph_Pauline_Hanson.png" width="400" /></a></div><p><br />In other words, it’s just another weekend after 1996. <br /><br />I haven’t read the piece. Why bother? She probably hasn’t. The headline and promotion tells you all you need to know. It will just be the usual slurry of denying she’s racist, whining about her treatment in the media, something about her love life (EEW! I cannot describe how little I care!), and an added splash of conspiracy theories – she has been flirting with anti-vaxxers since long before COVID. Nothing new. <br /><br />There are plenty of coherent, fact-based arguments to rebut Poorlean’s outbursts but we all know that’s a fool’s errand. So I’m going to address Hanson in her own language.<br /><br />Pauline, I’ve had a gutful! You’ve done nothing but whinge and moan for 25 years and I’m bloody sick of it.<br /><br />Don’t give me any of this rubbish about it being because you’re white, or because you’re a woman, or a redhead, or a single mother, or from Queensland, or conservative or whatever. That’s got nothing to do with it. You’ve been given every opportunity for a successful career in this great country and if you’re still not happy, well you’ve got no-one to blame but yourself.<br /><br />Yes, I’m a left-leaning (in the same way Malcolm Fraser was considered left-leaning), progressive Uhstrayan. And I’m sick to death of people like you blaming people like me for all your problems. How about taking some personal responsibility for once in your life? How about you stop looking for someone to blame, and start looking at how you can better yourself.<br /><br />You were young and naïve once but if you can’t learn from your mistakes then stop expecting ordinree Straylans to do it for you. You’ve allowed yourself to be used by a bunch of spivs and carpetbaggers from John Pasquarelli, to David Oldfield and David Ettridge, to James Ashby, to Malcolm Roberts, to Fraser Anning, to Mark Latham.<br /><br />It’s not my job to rescue you from your own bad decisions. Ornee hardworking Strines shouldn’t have to change just to make you feel comfortable.</p><p>You have (allegedly) just reached retirement age so go ahead and quit if it’s all too horrible for you. If that sounds too dull, you could open a B&B&B (bed, breakfast and bullshit) for other people who think everything was better before they started letting women in pubs. <br /><br />Go and live in England if you hate Straya so much. This is the greatest country in the world and if all you can do is complain about it, then it’s high time you buggered off back to where you came from.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-52915318853287797272021-03-26T21:15:00.001+11:002021-03-27T10:44:06.631+11:00It’s even worse than we thought<div class="separator"><p style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: left;">I really don’t want to sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist, but let’s put a few of this week’s clues together…<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fqeu2n34Pvc/YF2xF6PTwLI/AAAAAAAAFTk/9_TP2_-69Bw60JMVwVnkDoROydjwJGvfACPcBGAYYCw/s836/ExTyGNkVoAIfhUz.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="750" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fqeu2n34Pvc/YF2xF6PTwLI/AAAAAAAAFTk/9_TP2_-69Bw60JMVwVnkDoROydjwJGvfACPcBGAYYCw/w179-h200/ExTyGNkVoAIfhUz.png" width="179" /></a></div>This week, we had the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVgFrI-5D8k" target="_blank">revelation</a> that coalition staffers had a Facebook group where they posted photos of themselves masturbating and ejaculating onto the desks of female MPs. We also learned that other staffers used the parliament house prayer room for sex. <br /><br />Under normal circumstances, it would be one of the most sickening things anyone working in parliament house could be accused of. But this is 2021, where a staffer has already been accused of <a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-australian-politics-has-been-shaken-to-the-core-in-the-wake-of-brittany-higgins-rape-allegation">raping another staffer</a> in a ministerial office. Also a senior minister, later revealed to be attorney general <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-03/christian-porter-denies-historical-rape-allegation/13206972">Christian Porter</a>, has been the subject of historical rape allegations. <br /><br />It’s enough to make the idea of the former deputy prime minister, who had previously campaigned against same-sex marriage on the grounds of maintaining the sanctity of marriage, getting his media advisor pregnant and leaving his family for her seem quaint by comparison. <br /><br />The story about the desk defiling and prayer room sex was broken by Peter Van Onselen. That would be the same Peter Van Onselen who is a close personal friend of Christian Porter. The same Peter Van Onselen who, having declared his conflict of interests in speaking on the Porter issue, continued to do so, long and loud, at every opportunity. <br /><br />Curiously, unlike the rape allegations, the prime minister and his government were quick off the mark to denounce this latest behaviour. <br /><br />Then a couple of days later, one of the Liberal party’s chief propagandists Peta Credlin used one of the Liberal party’s chief propaganda outlets Sky News to double down. She now <a href="https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/03/25/peta-credlin-orgies-claim/" target="_blank">alleges</a> both staffers and MPs past and present hired sex workers for “gay orgies” during her time as chief of staff to the prime minister, and has only decided to talk about it now. <br /><br />Are you thinking what I’m thinking, B2?<br /><br />If this is the size of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy">dead cat</a> they’re willing to throw on the table to distract from allegations of rape and cover-ups, things must be far worse than we think. <br /> <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p></div>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-81024615145425944542021-02-24T22:41:00.003+11:002021-02-25T08:42:47.337+11:00Trickle UP Economics<p>The government’s announcement that it will finally raise JobSeeker by $50 per fortnight, or $3.57 a day has been rightly criticised as being insultingly small. It continues the notion that unemployment is a personal failing which must be punished by living below the poverty line, without even the resources to find a job. <br /><br />The myth of the dole-bludger has been pushed for as long as I can remember. People who are paid more in a month than you or I am in a year, keep telling us if unemployment benefits are too “generous” it removes the incentive to work. <br /><br />If life was really so easy on the dole, I’m pretty sure a lot more people would be doing it. And at the front of the line would be the columnists, shock jocks and television talking heads who have been fomenting dislike and distrust of the unemployed for more than a generation. You don’t think these people do their jobs out of a heightened work ethic and sense of community service do you? No, they do it because it pays well. Bloody well!<br /><br />And how hard can it be to sit on your arse in a studio talking out your armpit for a few hours a day about what you read in the papers that morning? And if you start to run out of puff, you can let the audience do the work for you by going to the call-in lines – provided your staff who do the real work have screened the callers to make sure they don’t call you out on your bullshit. Hell, I’d do that if I could. (Singo, call me!) As Robert Mitchum said of his profession, it sure beats working!<br /><br />Meanwhile, the government continues to trot out the line that the best form of welfare is a job. It’s a fair point on face value, but it’s hard to believe they’re genuine about it when the best way to create jobs is to raise JobSeeker above the poverty line. <br /><br />You can file the rest of this column under “I’m not an economist but I’m a real person who’s been around, seen a thing or two, and I’m not an idiot.”<br /><br />Jobs are created by demand. Demand is created by spending power. <br /><br />When the wealthy get a bit more money, they pocket it. <br />When the middle class get a bit more money, they might buy something nice or pay down debt. <br />When the poor get a bit more money, they spend it. <br /><br />Those who hate the unemployed will follow up with the furphy that jobless people, being lesser beings not to be trusted with their own money, will spend it on The Wrong Things. This idea is not just ignorant and insulting, but also utterly irrelevant. <br /><br />If you don’t believe the unemployed deserve to live dignified lives, that’s one thing, but let’s say for a moment that people on a fair JobSeeker rate don’t spend the entire difference on gaining employment. <br /><br />Maybe some of them will spend it on decent cigarettes instead of black market chop-chop. That means three quarters of it will go back in tax revenue. Maybe some will buy a slab instead of a six pack. Maybe some will buy some nice clothes – they might be able to afford clothes made in Australia. Maybe some of them will shout the kids fish and chips for tea. Maybe some of them will put an extra $20 worth of petrol in the car (if they have one) and drive to the beach for a change. Maybe some will, God forbid, buy themselves a soy latte when they meet friends at a café. <br /><br />Do you get it yet? The point is it’s all going straight back into the economy. They’re increasing demand and creating jobs. And it would be a steady stimulus, not the sugar hit of helping businesses to bring forward once in a decade purchases. <br /><br />Poor people don’t hoard money. They can’t. That’s what poor means. When they have some extra, they spend it. Spending stimulates the economy and creates jobs. That’s before we even mention the increased dignity and self-esteem, and reduced stress and anxiety which may help people find employment <br /><br />This is not a bleeding-heart argument, it’s a rational economic one. If we are serious about creating jobs, the simplest and most direct way is to increase JobSeeker above the poverty line – because the economy trickles UP. <br /> <br /> <br /><br /><br /></p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-7165459121243773482021-01-03T13:47:00.002+11:002021-01-03T13:56:28.269+11:00Trump loses poker face<p>In poker, as they say in the classics, every hand’s a winner and every hand’s a loser. <br /><br />You can be holding a fist full of nothing but if you behave confidently and/or aggressively enough, you can convince a player with three kings that you’ve got a full house. To minimise losses, that player then folds, forfeiting the money they have already bet and saving you from having to show your worthless hand. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EemGDIzhqOk/X_EvlRenuFI/AAAAAAAAFPw/LyUju93yQ7wk6JVe9ELRRrZtJHH48Y2mgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Trump.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1644" data-original-width="2048" height="161" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EemGDIzhqOk/X_EvlRenuFI/AAAAAAAAFPw/LyUju93yQ7wk6JVe9ELRRrZtJHH48Y2mgCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h161/Trump.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>There is one hand that cannot be beaten – the royal flush. A player holding a royal flush cannot be bluffed because they know there is no better hand. However, the perfect hand can still be beaten by a pair of twos if the player holding the twos has more in the bank than the player with the royal flush. <br /><br />If the pair of twos makes a bet higher than the royal flush can match, and refuses to take an IOU, unless the royal flush can raise a loan, they have to fold. This means the royal flush loses everything and the pair of twos looks like the better player. <br /><br />This brings us to Donald Trump. <br /><br />Trump has been holding a pair of twos all his life. The very few figures which have become public confirm that he is not nearly as wealthy as he wants everyone to believe. His sheer braggadocio is enough to convince enough people enough of the time. Trump doesn’t have the typical inscrutable poker face but he does have the master bluffing tactic of actually believing his own bullshit. He doesn’t have to pretend he isn’t lying because in his alternate reality, he isn’t. <br /><br />For those who call his bluff, Trump’s go-to option is legal action. The cases would be laughed out of court if it ever got that far, but it’s litigation the defendants haven’t the time, inclination or money to fight. So they settle. Trump wins, keeps the money and doesn’t have to show his hand. <br /><br />Some might suggest this makes Trump very clever, both as a businessman and a poker player. However, I don’t think even the most devout of free market libertarians would argue that this is the way a capitalist meritocracy is supposed to work. <br /><br />Trump’s response to his election loss is identical to his lifelong methods – first bluff, then sue. What he evidently fails to understand though, is he is now dealing with people and institutions who cannot be bluffed, intimidated or outbid. The way he is acting like a cornered wild animal shows he has no idea of how to process this.<br /><br />For the first time in his life, Trump is finally being forced to show his hand. And now the best that he can hope for is to die in his sleep. <br /><br /><br /><p></p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-28636268592676828612021-01-01T20:13:00.004+11:002021-01-02T08:53:19.360+11:00Be the anthem<p>Australia has updated the lyrics of its national anthem to say “we are <i>one</i> and free,” instead of “we are young and free.” This is intended to reflect the fact Australia has always been home to the world’s oldest continuous culture rather than just being the “young” nation the song was originally intended to represent. <br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RGCjiyz7Kq4/X-7ncUR5BJI/AAAAAAAAFPU/jimq7hv-vcAdNNXXHOWeTZG8-czCug0rQCLcBGAsYHQ/s617/Advance-Australia-Fair-copy.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="483" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RGCjiyz7Kq4/X-7ncUR5BJI/AAAAAAAAFPU/jimq7hv-vcAdNNXXHOWeTZG8-czCug0rQCLcBGAsYHQ/w157-h200/Advance-Australia-Fair-copy.jpg" width="157" /></a></div>Many have criticised the change as a token one-word acknowledgement of Australia’s Indigenous people, and it undoubtedly is. Some have also suggested the anthem should be changed to better reflect Australia. While happy to check my white privilege, I respectfully suggest we go the other way. Wouldn’t it be nice if Australia reflected the anthem?<br /><br />Any nation’s anthem is a brochure, a slogan, a postcard. If any country’s anthem were honest it would say, “Look, we’ve done some really bad shit but we’re trying to be better about it.” At best. <br /><br />Anyone who has ever had a dog will be aware of the old saying, “Be the person your dog thinks you are.” How about Australia be the country our anthem says we are? <br /><br />If we HAD wealth for toil, if we SHARED our boundless plains with those who’ve come across the sea, if we CARED for nature’s gifts of beauty rich and rare, if we WERE one (but many) and free… I’d like that.<p></p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-50787172195185694642020-12-03T14:27:00.002+11:002020-12-03T19:04:06.514+11:00Your opinion is irrelevant<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]-->The problem
with lawyers is they think all laws are open to interpretation, including the
laws of mathematics. They think they can always get the answer they want if
they just ask the question the right way. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">They are wrong. <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">74 million
is less than 80 million. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">74 million
has always been less than 80 million. <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">74 million
will always be less than 80 million. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">There are no
circumstances under which 74 million could ever be more than 80 million. <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">This is not
opinion. These are objective facts. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2PKfqKP2Ek8/X8haZN4jOJI/AAAAAAAAFN0/jf3MxX2AyZoLpJmidsRRgnQLCD3ot0k2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s735/Facts.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="735" height="138" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2PKfqKP2Ek8/X8haZN4jOJI/AAAAAAAAFN0/jf3MxX2AyZoLpJmidsRRgnQLCD3ot0k2ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h138/Facts.png" width="400" /></a></div>When an
electoral system states that the candidate with the most votes wins, then the
candidate who received 80 million votes beats the candidate who received 74
million votes. <br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">If anyone
would like to lecture me about the distinction between the popular vote and the
electoral college vote, then I simply invite you to go back to the top, replace
the number 74 million with the number 232, and the number 80 million with the
number 306. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">That’s the
beauty of maths. It always works. Even a Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich (this
is a <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dutch-sandwich.asp" target="_blank">real thing</a> by the way) will not change the answer. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Your opinion
is irrelevant. Your feelings are irrelevant. Whether you believe it, is
irrelevant. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The problem
with people disputing the result of the 2020 US presidential election is their
argument boils down to nothing more than, “I don’t believe it.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lawyers
prosecuting the case that Donald Trump won the election keep trying to change
the question in such a way as to achieve an answer they are comfortable to
believe. But no matter how they try to interpret the law, they will never make
232 add up to more than 306. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">There have
been many credible allegations of electoral fraud in US elections in the past,
but not this year. Even Trump’s lapdog Bill Barr has been forced to admit the
facts are not on his side. Facts don’t take sides. Facts are facts. People choose
whether to side with the facts. This decision is of course irrelevant. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Many years
ago, I was in an OHS course where one of the students kept wanting to argue the
legislation with the trainer. At one point, when he said, “Well, I don’t agree,”
for the umpteenth time, our trainer just gave up and said, “I don’t care whether you agree or not. I’m
telling you how it is.” </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Although the
modern world has allowed many people to create their own realities, there is
still such a thing as objective truth. You may agree or disagree with the
second part of that statement but it doesn’t matter. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Facts are
facts. Truth is truth. Your opinion is irrelevant. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dear bands,
singers, musicians, and other assorted recording artistes as appropriate:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">If you must
go in for this Black Friday nonsense – and I get that market forces probably
mean you have to – do you know what I would really like to order from your
online store?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">A CD. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Not a
hoodie.<br />Not a denim
jacket with a patch bearing your name sewn on the sleeve.<br />Not an
infant’s onesie.<br /></p>Not your
latest album spread across ten 7” picture discs.<br />Not
monogrammed cigarette papers.<br />Not a
download with extra tracks. If I’m going to pay for a download, it had better
be at least 48kHz, 24-bit lossless or GTFO!<br />Not a pair
of socks.<br />Not
Christmas tree decorations.<br />Not a 250g
LP in 4-colour spattered vinyl because that’s the only physical medium you
chose to release the album in. Hey, I love vinyl but I’m not a fetishist.<br />Not a scarf.<br />Not a pillow case.<br />Not a water
bottle.<br />Not a mug.<br />Not a
teapot.<br />Not a
cassette. I like retro technology but cassettes sucked even when they were the
best option available.<br />Not a
dartboard.<br />Not a jigsaw
puzzle.<br />Not a hip
flask.<br />Not a pint
glass/shot glass/bar set.<br />Not a tote
bag.<br />Not a tea
towel.<br />Not a
lithograph of a concert poster which was never used for the original tour
anyway.<br />Not a CD
which has been bundled with a vinyl record, T-shirt/jacket/hoodie, and art
print.
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Just a plain
old CD. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Actually, it
doesn’t have to be plain. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I love
beautiful packaging, so long as your idea of beautiful packaging isn’t a
massive hardcover book bound in virgin ostrich leather which will take up 25%
of my shelf and cost somewhere in the vicinity of a flight to Thailand. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">And it doesn’t
have to be old. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I’d prefer
some new music to your most popular album remastered by technicians at Space-X
under the supervision of the original tape-op because somehow the four previous
remasters still didn’t get it right. And that slight remix to strip the
original album of the production values which didn’t remain fashionable? Not
really necessary. I know they didn’t have Pro Tools in 1970. That might be why
the original records were so good. If you took all the gated reverb off the
snares in those 80s albums, would we even recognise the songs? And in
situations where the principle artist is no longer around to approve (or
disapprove), it’s getting dangerously close to musical fan-fic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Just one
further request: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Could you
put ALL the music on the CD please? Don’t hit me up in another 6 months to buy
the version with all the tracks you forgot to include the first time around.
And if you want to do a coffee-table book edition – so called because it’s
roughly the size of an actual coffee table – that’s fine for those who like
that kind of thing, but please don’t expect me to invest in this massive slab
of furniture just to get the bonus live disc. That really isn’t fair. DVDs are
cool too. Include them by all means but the same rule applies: don’t make the
DVD with all the bonus features only available to those willing to shell out
for the version that comes in a ¼ size replica pyramid with certified used
guitar strings and a lock of the singer’s hair. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I am more
than willing to pay a price which, averaged out across the print run, will
compensate you for the time and resources spent writing, recording, mixing,
manufacturing and distributing the product, with a reasonable profit margin. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Is that too
much to ask?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-46794973112971653302020-11-13T19:27:00.000+11:002020-11-13T19:27:22.864+11:00The five levels of Trump delusion<p>No-one really gives a shit that Donald Trump himself is denying all reality. </p><p>He is just being who he has always been and doing what he has always done. <br /></p><p>It's not as if he didn't telegraph the fact he would dispute the election result way back in the middle of 2016. When someone starts making excuses for losing well before the game has even started, that ought to tell you something, but here we are. </p><p>Whether or not he concedes is irrelevant. Whether or not he refuses to leave is irrelevant. If Trump is still in the White House at 12:01pm on January 20th, he will be a trespasser and treated as such by the Secret Service. Their duty is not to Trump but to the duly elected president of the day. I, for one, would pay to watch that<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BR6uN7UrwLM/X65BwZLIODI/AAAAAAAAFMA/8lfSA057TEEk4hjhWKishdJGcAhEOVJMACLcBGAsYHQ/s1159/Donald-Trump-You-Knew-I-Was-A-Snake.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="1159" height="226" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BR6uN7UrwLM/X65BwZLIODI/AAAAAAAAFMA/8lfSA057TEEk4hjhWKishdJGcAhEOVJMACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h226/Donald-Trump-You-Knew-I-Was-A-Snake.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>His backers like Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller and anyone remotely connected with Breitbart, who have used Trump as a front for their own crypto-facist ambitions, don't give a rat's whether the election was free and fair or not. They would probably prefer it wasn't. To them, democracy is simply an unavoidable (for now) impediment to their objectives. </p><p>They may or may not believe their own bullshit. It hardly matters. It's all a means to an end for them. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Trump's children - who would be irrelevant if not for their high places in the administration and campaign - probably don't know any better. Their partners, who have also been given senior positions in the campaign and/or administration have less of an excuse. They joined the cult rather than being brought up in it so their denial of reality is either wilful participation or terminal naivety. </p><p>When you've been raised with Donald Trump as your moral compass though, what hope do you have? Invanka, Don Jr and Eric can almost be forgiven... Almost.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o6JnBqGyOHc/X65B-LZ2pcI/AAAAAAAAFME/kvH3t_GNT_8kU9MJexMWQqWBmHF1r2XQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Lindsey-Graham-Taint-Conservatism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o6JnBqGyOHc/X65B-LZ2pcI/AAAAAAAAFME/kvH3t_GNT_8kU9MJexMWQqWBmHF1r2XQQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h200/Lindsey-Graham-Taint-Conservatism.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Media shills like Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingram, et al are playing to a particular audience. They are reactionaries with no ideas of their own. All they know is if "teh left" are for it, then they're against is and if the left are against it, then they are for it. Of course, this is from a mindset where anyone who is slightly more liberal than Mussolini is a "radical leftist." </p><p>If Joe Biden - who by any objective standards is a centre-right moderate if ever there was one - said the Earth orbits the Sun and grass is green, these people would say he's wrong and find some de-registered crackpot to come on all their shows to agree with them. They have no other thought processes. </p><p>As for the likes of Alex Jones, he is just a big bowl of chili way from claiming it's all a plot by the alien lizards. Anyone who listens to him deserves to. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6hy1YNV86T4/X65CHDyG8eI/AAAAAAAAFMM/ylH6Ge24mGUn-nUt43KAQN2Ln-h7dGQuACLcBGAsYHQ/s605/Mike-Pence-Adultery-Big-Deal.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="605" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6hy1YNV86T4/X65CHDyG8eI/AAAAAAAAFMM/ylH6Ge24mGUn-nUt43KAQN2Ln-h7dGQuACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/Mike-Pence-Adultery-Big-Deal.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>But it's the modern-day Quislings, Mike Pence, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Mitch McConnell, and so many more, who history will judge the most harshly. Each of them is on the record either decrying Trump directly or at least the kind of behaviour he revels in. And they all threw whatever principles they had away and accepted Trump's hostile takeover of their party for the sake of short-term political advantage. </p><p>Donald Trump, having never had to take responsibility or face consequences in his life, was always going to be a 74-year-old infant. Those who demonstrably knew better and still chose to roll over and say black is white, up is down, and Trump won the election, must be shown no mercy. </p><p><br /></p>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-90371432122499326892020-10-30T09:59:00.000+11:002020-10-30T09:59:53.510+11:00Vote your conscience<p> <span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db gfeo3gy3 a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"></span></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">When Trump defenders tell you it's not about the personality, it's about the policy, they're lying. Even to themselves. </div></div><p></p><div><div class="" dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc e5nlhep0 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_7z"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db gfeo3gy3 a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The truth is, it's not about personality or policy. It's about toxic, rusted-on partisanship. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">How else do you explain them switching from clutching their pearls over Bill Clinton getting a knee-trembler from a consenting adult, to supporting someone who has bragged about his infidelity and being about to get away with sexual assault?</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">If it were actually about policy, Hillary Clinton would have won in a landslide because she's the best Republican candidate there's been all century. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><blockquote>Huh Bill! Shows what you know! Hillary Clinton is a Democrat, stupid!</blockquote></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Okay then, you want to talk policies? Let's look at Hillary Clinton's policies:</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">She's never seen a war she didn't want to join. </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">She loves Wall St money. </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Her entire platform was essentially manifest destiny. </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">She obviously doesn't understand modern technology. </div></div></span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db gfeo3gy3 a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Add it up! Hillary Clinton is a Republican!</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The only actual reasons Republicans had to dislike her were her surname, the D that came after it, and possibly her vagina. (Change my mind).</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">If you've decided character no longer matters, that's your own prerogative. Just be honest with yourself and admit you were either wrong then or you're wrong now. It's okay to change your mind.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">If you'd rather vote for a sack of shit on the Republican ticket than a flawed but policy-sound candidate on the Democratic ticket, that again is your prerogative. Just be honest with yourself about it. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Vote for whoever you want. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-67272682743129284252020-06-02T16:55:00.002+10:002020-06-02T16:58:17.056+10:00"Not all cops"<div data-contents="true"><div data-block="true" data-editor="eqm3d" data-offset-key="7d158-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7d158-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7d158-0-0"><span data-text="true">It's all very well to say Not All Cops but it's like saying Not All Men. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="eqm3d" data-offset-key="c3vih-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c3vih-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c3vih-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="eqm3d" data-offset-key="68jem-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="68jem-0-0"><span data-offset-key="68jem-0-0"><span data-text="true">No-one is saying it's ALL cops or ALL men. But the people with reason to have a rational fear of either men or cops (and if you need that explained to you, what a lovely rock you've been living under) can't tell who are the good ones just by looking at them. So they have to be wary all the time. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="eqm3d" data-offset-key="esuc3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="esuc3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="esuc3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="eqm3d" data-offset-key="a4v8s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a4v8s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a4v8s-0-0"><span data-text="true">If you're not one of those people who has ever needed to fear men or cops, then that's what privilege looks like. And no, I'm not saying you've had an easy life - I'm sure you haven't. I'm just saying it hasn't been hard for THAT reason of what you look like.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="eqm3d" data-offset-key="effp5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="effp5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="effp5-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="eqm3d" data-offset-key="cl1e-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cl1e-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cl1e-0-0"><span data-text="true">If I happen to be walking behind a woman on her own at night, <i><b>I</b></i> know I'm not a threat, but SHE doesn't. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="eqm3d" data-offset-key="4moi2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4moi2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4moi2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="eqm3d" data-offset-key="87d1a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="87d1a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="87d1a-0-0"><span data-text="true">Call me a cuck if you like, but I think her right to feel safe overrides my right to the comfort of not being considered a potential rapist. </span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="eqm3d" data-offset-key="1t6do-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1t6do-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1t6do-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="eqm3d" data-offset-key="5umd8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5umd8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5umd8-0-0"><span data-text="true">Likewise, if people who have done nothing wrong still fear police harassment, there has to be a reason for that and we need to think honestly about what that reason may be. Sure, any individual officer in any given situation may be no threat whatsoever. Indeed, that's probably the case in the majority of situations, but the how are the people on the receiving end supposed to be sure of that?</span></span></div></div></div>Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.com0