Posts by Eddie Clark
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Tom/Rich:
I wonder if you have any specific reasons for wanting to ban private schools. I went to one, with two working parents paying for it, neither of whom was paid a forture. Private schools are subsidised by the state, yes, but at a much lower rate than public ones. My parents paid their share of the education budget through decades of taxes - are they entitled to none of that being spent on my education?
I mean, is the arguments "diverting scare resources to rich pricks" or is it "I am ideologically opposed to private schooling for no specific reason"?
And Tom, you seriously want to Bus people across town to ensure that all schools are model UNs? That's a wee bit of crazy talk.
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Yeah, Emma, I agree. Although it's more lazy wording than malice. "Commonly used" could mean "this drug is most commonly used during sex between men", but could equally mean "teh gayz always take drugs and shag."
Not that I think it's an excuse. Lazy - not malice. Sounds like Amazonfail :).
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*grin*
If you go to Vic law school, I'm 95% sure said lecturer is a friend of mine.
And yes, I agree re Craig. Where have you been these past few weeks. I need more comments that are simultaneously obscene and crotchety in an old-manish "get off my lawn" sort of way (that's a compliment, btw).
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*sigh* yes, that sounds depressingly familiar, Emma.
Well, I'd better head off and do some homosexual legal work and then head home on the same-sex bus and have some gay dinner.
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Be interested to know what you think of it, Emma and/or Mrs Skin, if you have the time to read it.
And that blog is very sensible (as are most things said by Cheryl Morgan. A most sensible lady). Given that the US has no real labour laws to speak of, I'd be very worried if I was in Amazon's PR department right now.
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God the wellington legal community is small, lol.
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Well I have a copy :P.
Oh! Rather to my surprise, the VUWLR appears to have posted pdf copies of their back issues on their website. Didn't know they did that, and they sure as hell didn't ask me if they could. Ah well, not that I mind.
Anyway, it's here:
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/documentation/VUWLR%20PDFS/37(2)/03%20clark.pdf
The whole issue is worth reading if you're interesting in GLBT issues. Special issue on sexuality and the law - as far as I know the first (and only) such dedicated law review volume produced in New Zealand.
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I read a comment today saying that it was as if everything you did as an LGBT person was just that much more obscene to these people. Loving, raising kids, going to work... he described as 'like walking around with an enormous technicolour penis attached to you all the time'.
Ha. I wrote my honours thesis on this in the context of New Zealand legal judgments. With my erstwhile BA in English past, I essentially did a critical analysis of how judges talked about the gay subjects of the law. Not the results, but the language used. There was this combination of redundantly insisting on the sexuality of all activities involving gay people, and refusing to accurately describe the content of any ACTUAL sexual activity. Sexual by definition, but indescribable.
It was really quite sobering research to do, and some of the nastiest things I found were in quite recent judgments.
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Emma, like you the thing that's staggered me most about this is the PR response. No press release? No elaborately concocted explanation about screwy perl scripts or hackers? No scapegoat rogue employee? I mean come on, they're a big company, surely their PR staff are more competent than that.
Meanwhile, Fishpond (and Unity) will be getting a lot more of my business now.
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telling the uplifting story of a young man who stabs his girlfriend to death, and ends up "in a lonesome valley, hanging from a wide oak tree". Nice and cosy for a wet afternoon indoors.
You can at least get him to the late 80s... Murder Ballads anyone? Or Nick Cave generally. Nice, healthy, baby music.