Posts by recordari
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that mean Russell Brown and his cabal of sycophants.
And like I've said before, all I want to do is get into that cabal! Ok? Jandals and all.
And I agree, the high standards mean the standard is usually high (tautology), and that's why I'm getting a bit addicted to it. Are there patches?
Or, as my old dad used to say, teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs?
You don't suck, you blow ;-)
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gee the internet is a rough place.
I hear ya'! Still, kind of fun too, in a ZOMG ponies sort of way.
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I've just discovered 'mansplain' also, thanks to a particular urban vernacular specialist on this thread ;-) Something which I am intending to look out for in my future posts, and why I am desisting from further comment on the Sci-Fi front.
Read some. Yes. Written a PhD on the subject replete with exhaustive bibliography of obscure references for and against (what was the question again?) not so much.
@BM Little bunny foofoo...
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(with a handful of freakish exceptions reluctantly granted) is nothing more than domestic trivia and hysterical emoting; men were writing real novels.
George Sand you mean?
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Some history.
It seems important to me to acknowledge that the pendulum has swung quite dramatically towards the punishment end of the spectrum. In state initiated research through the 80s and 90s, including the Roper Report, it was acknowledged that neither 'punishment' nor 'treatment' alone would resolve the problems associated with serious violent crime, particularly domestic violence, which made up an estimated 80% then, and I believe is similar now.This also from the Duluth to Hamilton section;
The FVPCC realised that a change in arrest policy alone would not dramatically reduce reoffending. Overseas experience had shown that until 'formal, compulsory education programmes were introduced and the system of dealing with offenders is structured to ensure that the community response is always consistent, a significant reduction in the reoffending rate does not occur'. (Smith 1991:51).
At least one who worked on the Roper Report, after trying to change the system from within, threw up his hands and went in to the prisons, where he helped develop a mentor programme to break the cycle of violence amongst some of our toughest gangs. It didn't work in every case, but it did in some, and the long term benefits, and reduced costs of this approach far out-way the prospect of locking them all up and throwing away the key, IMhO.
Perhaps proper funding and support for these programmes would also have prevented the deaths mentioned in that inflammatory article. If we declare them all as 'hopeless cases', inevitably that's what they will become. I would not be proud of a nation that takes the American approach to problems they are too incompetent, or without much of a stretch, too bigoted to address in more 'holistic' terms. And yet here we are.
From Campbell article, which I just read. Brilliant, thanks Lyndon.
As an aside, the policy demonstrates the Act Party’s primitive view of how society actually works. With crime as with the economy, the Act Party treat society as being merely an aggregate of individuals, a gaggle of rational actors singly making rational choices on a cost and benefit basis. It is the worldview of a 14 year old. What it allows Act to do is ignore social factors altogether – and the fact that different people face differences of wealth, health, opportunity and access to resources that significantly affect the choices they make, or can make.
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As we have gone from state funded BBQs to beer and then etymology, it doesn't seem such a great leap to go to my favourite public servant comment of the week, possibly the decade (whichever decade we're in - don't start).
Mike More on becoming US Ambassador said;
'I'm not a lifestyle kind of guy, and if you learn I'm playing golf, shoot me in the back of the head!'
Now that's my kind of public servant.
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It's a Westfield then.
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'Real Kiwi Blokes' get told to "get f*&#@" in our house.
Sorry about the edit. I'm a bit sensitive. Yeah well ditto, mostly, but there was those builders working on the house for a bit who insisted on having Heineken, or Hagan, or some other green glassed faux Dutch sounding, but Khyber Pass brewed, beer.
Hang on, what was it someone said about builders? Mind you, if I had to pick between my builder mates or an ex-banker and a right regal royal, give me the builders any day.
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You asked for it....
The only answer to that is obviously this...
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And I was mocked for refusing to drink Steinlager.
Try drinking Mac's Great White. 'What arrr' ya?' Belgian Witbier is not what the 'Real Kiwi Bloke' drinks, apparently. But then again I could always order a Hoegarden.