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Two lawyers and a larrikin on life, law and liberty. Friendly and generous types. Post-Enlightenment is the Counter-Enlightenment rebooted. February 25, 2016 – 7:41 am. Also posted in Academia. 8220;Punching down” and other moral inanities. February 28, 2015 – 8:38 pm. Also posted in Blogging. September 5, 2013 – 1:00 am. More than 300,000 attempts were made to access pornographic websites at the Houses of Parliament in the past year, official records suggest. It is unclear whether MPs, peers or othe...
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Arrested In Northbridge | A Yobbo\'s View
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A Yobbo ’s View. From The Arse End Of The Anglosphere. Laquo; My Bail Conditions. Scales Of Justice Update. Last night I was ejected from the “Elephant and Wheelbarrow” hotel in Northbridge. According the bouncer who ejected me I was too drunk to be in there. Why he thought this I wasn’t sure, because I was in quite fair condition and the pub was very busy, which makes me wonder how he decided from amongst the crowd of people in there that I was drunk enough to warrant eviction. Once outside the pub I st...
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Two lawyers and a larrikin on life, law and liberty. Friendly and generous types. Defending openness with cognitive closure. August 9, 2016 – 5:22 pm. The Economist recently had a piece claiming that the left-right divide had been overtaken by the open-closed divide. It had this to say on the Brexit vote: So far, Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has been the anti-globalists’ biggest prize: the vote in June to abandon the world’s most successful free-trade club was […]. Also posted in Britain.
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DAGWOOD RUDDSTEAD | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog
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Network Navigation (other sites). Alarming Prime Ministerial rumours. The gossip mill in NSW Labor circles has it that Mr Rudd was felled by a minor heart attack. On May 3] and advised by a doctor not to keep his appointments on the Sunday. He was said to have been ashen-faced but determined to fulfil his speaking commitments at that weekend’s NSW Labor conference. 8220;I can’t say a thing,” the MP said. A Rudd adviser clarifies matters:. 8220;We don’t serve dagwood dogs. When it comes to sports events.
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Skepticlawyer » Economics
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Two lawyers and a larrikin on life, law and liberty. Friendly and generous types. Defending openness with cognitive closure. August 9, 2016 – 5:22 pm. The Economist recently had a piece claiming that the left-right divide had been overtaken by the open-closed divide. It had this to say on the Brexit vote: So far, Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has been the anti-globalists’ biggest prize: the vote in June to abandon the world’s most successful free-trade club was […]. Also posted in Britain.
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Skepticlawyer » Feminism
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Two lawyers and a larrikin on life, law and liberty. Friendly and generous types. Westerners have moral agency, Muslims have excuses. April 11, 2016 – 5:32 pm. The recent case of a Norwegian left of centre politician who is apparently distressed that his convicted Somali rapist is likely to be deported has caused a minor online stir. I was, however, particularly struck by this statement: But perhaps the most notable lesson Hauken says he learned is that rapists are from a world […]. The Nazism of our time.
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Skepticlawyer » Politics
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Two lawyers and a larrikin on life, law and liberty. Friendly and generous types. The Hugo awards and the decay of Western civilisation. August 26, 2016 – 6:57 pm. The Hugos, for those unaware, are (speculative fiction/science fiction/fantasy) SF awards voted on by people at Worldcon. Along with the Nebulas, they have long been the premier awards in SF. A few years ago, some SF writers got together and decided to push back against [what they saw as] the drift of the awards from their […]. The Country Fir...
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Skepticlawyer » Human/Civil rights
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Two lawyers and a larrikin on life, law and liberty. Friendly and generous types. Category Archives: Human/Civil rights. What starts in Palestine does not stay in Israel. May 8, 2016 – 4:53 pm. Also posted in Events. Not) coping with the diversity of the real. May 4, 2016 – 7:27 pm. Also posted in History. Can a contemporary Western country have a moral immigration policy with a reasonable risk level? February 28, 2016 – 10:52 am. The intense, and highly moralised, debate over migration in the West is cl...
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Skepticlawyer » Law
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Two lawyers and a larrikin on life, law and liberty. Friendly and generous types. Public policy: discovery and bargaining or applied knowing? July 7, 2016 – 7:26 pm. Is public policy a discovery process which takes into consideration the diverse interests, experiences and perspectives of the political nation (however defined–in a democracy, that is supposed to be the entire citizenry) or is it an engineering problem, an application of applied knowing? Also posted in Economics. May 2, 2016 – 7:06 am.
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