Posts by Stephen Judd
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You know I've been playing the violin since I was seven, and in the three decades I've been waiting since I haven't got away with that gag even once.
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On Saturday I had some hand-made, bootleg cachaça distilled at a Brazilian agricultural university, which tasted like sugarcane and vanilla happiness.
Almost as good as Bookbinder, really.
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Not saying this is wrong, just that the media seems to present them as a political movement or society.
As with many entities that get coverage disproportionate to their intellectual or popular heft, I feel that perhaps I should write a little Firefox plugin that replaces all occurences of "Family First" in news articles with "Secretive Bigots' Front Group", thus doing the work which editorial staff seem unable to.
By the way, has anyone heard from the Maxim Institute recently? They must be very envious.
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Apropos McCroskie, I'd like to know why the hell he gets so much coverage. I wonder also whether they might not be receiving foreign largesse over at Family First too.
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I first encountered Spondre via comments on Lance Wiggs' blog and I can't say I was impressed then, or now.
I think he has a stick up his arse about something, but it's hard to tell exactly what.
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Nope, I was worried about penis theft.
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Apropos placebos' increased effectiveness, one theory is that in the US, drug advertising to consumers has been allowed for some years and is now pervasive. So US residents effectively get a lot more propaganda about the powers of medicine than they used to, and their belief in the efficacy of drugs has increased.
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I find it intriguing Angus that you zip so easily from a position based on absolute rights to one that "maximises the amount of people who can attain happiness." Classically those who believe that maximising happiness is the way to go also believe that rights are nonsense on stilts.
I am also intrigued by your utilitarian calculus. How exactly are you offsetting the unhappiness caused by rudeness from the unhappiness caused by being restrained from rudeness? For example, I am tempted to infer that you believe the unhappiness of harrassed female bar patrons is more than offset by the happiness of boorish male ones.
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Stephen - don't threaten people.
Very seriously, how can you tell that's a threat? Can you use your threat-detecting method in other contexts to detect other things concealed in speech, do you think?
And secondly,doesn't my right to free expression protect me? Why doesn't it trump your right not to be threatened?
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Man, next time me and my little helpers go debt collecting, I'm going to bring along Angus.
We're not threatening you. We're just exercising our right to free expression. Incidentally, have I expressed what a lovely house you have? It is my belief, and I don't mind sharing it with you, that it would be shame if anything were to happen to it.