Posts by Russell Brown
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If the killing of Dr Tiller isn't serious enough to be terrorism, but is still more serious than a plain vanilla homicide, then the nearest matching description would have to be political murder or assassination.
I think in context it's certainly terrorism. His death takes down to two the number of doctors who perform late-term abortions in the US.
That's not because the procedure, although tightly constrained by law, is illegal. It's because most doctors are, literally, terrified after 25 years of bombings, shootings, assaults and ordinary intimidation carried out by individuals associated with known, organised groups. Scott Roeder is one such individual.
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Russell also has an excellent energy star rating and comes in a range of colours.
Also - double FlyBuys points!
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It doesn't ahve to be either/or; journalism includes opinion pieces. I would have thought it rather obvious that Russell's Hard News comments are opinion pieces.
For the record, I've won awards for news, feature and column writing, and blogging. I've also been a radio interviewer for years and now I host a TV discussion show. I do have a bit of a range.
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OT but oh god ...
Someone campaigning for John Boscawen is driving around our residential neighbourhood with a very loud loudspeaker telling everyone how "strong" and "effective" he'd be as the member for Mt Albert.
Presumably they don't have the people to knock on doors, but I can't imagine it's doing him any good at all.
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without any intervention from mr god controller which unveils a disturbing level of bias.
Gee Rob, I'm sorry that I couldn't devote even more of my time to following an old thread that I was thoroughly sick of.
I'm actually really, really tired of the personal cracks at me of the kind in the above post. You've been doing it from the day you arrived. But I suppose it worked for you, given that I'm having to pay attention to you yet again.
If you can't behave with even a modicum of respect, please go away for a while. And if that doesn't work, I will actually show you the door. It is my house.
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I'll get together a post about this at some point soon, I think, but the short version is that moderation isn't actually easy. It's a matter of feel, taste and tone, and it's more or less full-time.
My inclination is to always allow (and where necessary wade in and defend) unpopular opinions and those who air them.
For example: I'm always happy to have James Bremmer in the house, even if only to catch up on the latest Republican talking points, and I've asked people to desist from personal abuse and name-calling to him a few times. Although his arguments often seem outrageous to me, he conducts them well.
I won't stop people criticising each other's arguments, but I try and head off personal attacks (OTOH, I'm prepared to wear personal attacks on me more than on others. It's just a discussion thread. It doesn't really hurt.).
But I do need to pay heed to the overall health of the discussion, where the forum itself is being respected and whether other people are being wound up by an individual, whether things have descended to trolling.
Grant ran out of credit yesterday. With lil' p, it was his inane prose style, complaints from other users, and a final flush of trollish behaviour. I might let him back if he can promise to write properly. Or I might not. Hundreds of people use these forums, and thousands read them. I can't perennially sacrifice everyone else's interests to the feelings of a handful of individuals.
FWIW, I think I've banned fewer than 10 individuals in all the time PAS has been running, and that includes Palm Oil Guy and dad4justice (but only after his late-night drunken posts).
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Interesting point about what chicks dig, physique-wise.
It does sometimes seem to me that what gets presented to women as porn/erotica for them actually looks like porn/erotica for gay men, at least in its solo form.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I've wondered if they're really that interchangeable.
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I would have made a similar point, but I have been busy in the Public Library re-titling the books in the Crime section: Unlawful Killing on the Orient Express; Murder, She Alleged; and so on.
LOL.
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haha, susan boyle though. you went on record as being moved by a manipulative idol style program. That's going to be hard to live down the next time you delve into music style-meister territory.
Really?
speaking of backlash I remember one to ladyhawk in these's here pages somewhere very close to hyping her, remarkably quick it was.
Huh? I loved 'Paris is Burning'; still do. But I was disappointed in her live show. The night itself was good fun (instant Ladyhawke lookalikes!) but her band was badly clunky. I think I ventured that Modular was going to have to work on it.
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Your argument, Russell, seems to be "Yeah sure, but the colloquial usage is just fine". My point is that it isn't. It's lazy, inaccurate and incendiary. So there isn't much further to take it.
Thank God.
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