Posts by Russell Brown
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put a ruff on you and a bit of beard sculpting and blue light and I think you might pass for him.
Especially the "portrait as a young man". That's kinda spooky.
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Good article by Greenwald, but I am a little stunned to learn that Reynolds is actually a law professor.
Yup. It's what makes his style so exquisitely intellectually dishonest. His posts defending the dispatch of Joe the Plumber (no, really) to Israel to "cover" the war on Gaza for Pajamas Media were particularly precious.
It's like the defining characteristic of the modern wingnut is a really titanic failure of self-awareness.
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Why wait for something like this to happen?
<cough> Radio Live is really good sometimes. 5-6pm, Saturdays for example ...
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That was one good summer.
Get any swims in?
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Yes, Daniel is going to be writing a series of these posts.
And at the risk of firing all my guns at once ...
I had what I now realise is the classic New Zealander experience of getting to Europe, loving it, but feeling the urge to go back (sometime) and help with the culture. It was three years later that I returned, and it wasn't the actual reason we came back, but it gave coming back a sense of purpose.
It turned out that various of my cultural heroes -- Rex Fairburn, for example -- heard the same call.
I was never going to cross paths with Fairburn, but it now feels like a loss that I'd lived in the same town as Keith Sinclair and never heard him speak.
But even on return, it took me a while to grasp it. Straight off the plane, I could walk into The Listener and Kevin Ireland (with us still, I hasten to add) and Robin Dudding were there on the subs' bench, and my mate's grand-dad was Allen Curnow. That's quite something in comparison to living in a place where the canon was beyond reach.
In a way, of course, it was an advantage to discover the canon myself, rather than being bashed over the head with it at university ...
But anyway: one of my measures for myself is whether I'm contributing to the culture. Like I said, purpose.
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Damn, looks like I was caught between versions there...
Oh yeah: sorry. Versioning is my special power ...
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Good. I want them to. better that than a police force which feels itself legally unaccountable for its actions. That way lies Clint Rickards...
I understand the point about police accountability.
But Rickards? Are you trying to come up with offensively inappropriate comparisons for this incident?
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An apparent lack of care cost an innocent person their life in this instance. So it looks like we must be fucked whatever happens.
At the risk of stating the obvious, it might be helpful to repeat what I said at the bottom of the post: the overwhelmingly culpable actor in this tragedy is McDonald.
The cop who pulled the trigger may or may not be found to be negligent or reckless.
But, so far as we know at the moment, he was acting in the heat of the moment to save a life. That's why I find the Nuremberg comparison somewhat offensive. Nazi officers were being tried on moral decisions made repeatedly over months and years.
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Doubts and excessive consideration for their own well-being could cost an innocent person their life.
I'll have to differ with you on Abbott, but I have been wondering what kind of media clamour we'd be hearing now if the AOS officer hadn't taken that shot and Richard Neville had been shot in the back of the head.
The reaction of people like Jim Hopkins to the police caution in the Navtej Singh case (he deemed them "cowards") suggests it wouldn't be pretty.
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Would that opening sentence be a Dan Brown tribute?
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