...is a hatpost. So here's one for those who feel inclined to hang a few comments (I'm looking at whoever I had coffee with this arvo...you know who you are...)
Bill Heffernan. He's the PM's shotgun so he gets to do stuff that, in the public's impression, comes naturally and get away with it. Can anyone suggest why he should get away with it in view of the PM's injunction to us all to be more civil? And a story on one of the 6.30 shock horror shows the other night about bullying at school?
Cartoon furore. Lives lost. People who would normally swing one way suddenly find they have reached a tipping point (see the letter from James Collette). How do we demonstrate tolerance in a firm, "no more, these are our principles", kind of way (true to being wishy washy I am not going to posit an answer but by the same token, apart from extremists on both sides, I haven't seen one anyway amongst the substantial amount of commentary and analysis I've read on the issue).
AWB: it doesn't resonate with the man in the street (sorry, can't remember where the link was) but in a representative democracy, it is up to the elected opposition to identify the ground and take the fight up. But I was listening to the Beazer on the radio, confected outrage expressed in beautifully rounded syllables, and I thought "you sound fake. It's just a game to you, why don't you just tell it like it is - this pack of criminals is up their necks in it and if they aren't, they're incompetent. Can't you make it stick?" Surely there's a just a teensy-weensy little shred of the Westminster system left? Ministerial responsibility? Anyone?
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Oh my God! They killed South Park! You b@$#@&*s!
SBS drops South Park episode on the Pope: The Age report:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/tv--radio/sbs-pulls-south-park-episode/2006/02/23/1140670207657.html
Get used to it if you want to live here" we decide who will live and here and the TV they can watch.
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