Posts by Rob Stowell
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Sweetest Sound,
More Mancini than a pink panther paradise :)
https://soundcloud.com/user-363576125/sets/the-celia-mancini-tapes-1 and
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/2018632406/celia-mancini-bringing-music-back-from-the-abyss -
Thanks Greg. It's perilously hard to get addiction treatment - and when people relapse - and that's the norm, I think - the first time seldom sticks - it gets harder to get back in. I can't share the story I know best, but it's hard enough for addicts to face up and want help. When there's nothing there - months and months of waiting, on 'maintenance' doses and other medication - it's a horrible, humiliating waste of lives and goodwill and human potential.
Hope you are feeling ok again soon. -
Hard News: The new medical cannabis law…,
Life being a terminal condition - no way out alive - we all might just have wriggle room :)
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Speaker: Market failure in the research world, in reply to Mark C. Wilson,
UC seems to be getting an absolutely standard package and I would be surprised if it differed much from what the others get.
Ouch. This needs investigating!
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And this approach to Northern Ireland has also got the Scots - including the Scottish Tories, I think - interested in the same sort of deal, despite there being a land border and all that. It's a mess that almost everyone wants to back away from, and noone can.
David Cameron must be worried he'll go down in history as Britain's biggest twatcock. -
Hard News: Memories of the news,
Wahine sinking feels like the first. But that's mixed up with the storm itself, which was eventful enough. For a young lad in an environment of trees and boats, it was intensely dramatic: not just no power or school for days - all the moored boats in Diamond Harbour bar one were destroyed; and many huge trees came down, all over the place, leaving great gaping holes in the ground, like shell-holes, some of which filled with water.
And then the moon landing; the whole class, listening on the radio at Diamond Harbour school, and staring up at the moon that night, knowing there were people up there, still on its surface. -
Hard News: And so it begins ...,
Don Junior continues to look like a possum in the headlights. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/
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Hard News: And so it begins ...,
John Cassidy in the New Yorker, quoting Wired:
This weekend, Wired published an article by Garrett M. Graff, the author of a book about Mueller’s tenure as director of the F.B.I., pointing out that most large-scale F.B.I. investigations now follow the same template: “Work on peripheral figures first, encourage them to cooperate with the government against their bosses in exchange for a lighter sentence, and then repeat the process until the circle has closed tightly around the godfather or criminal mastermind. There’s no reason to think that this investigation will be any different.”
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Hard News: What we learned yesterday…,
Anyone else feel the recent spate of articles about the PM’s pay like this might be a little (cough splutter) blatantly sexist even for the current phallocentric tyrany*?
*phrase lifted from the super-awesome ‘skeletal lamping’ – still one of the greatest albums of the millennium. -
Hard News: What we learned yesterday…, in reply to Russell Brown,
This Kleiman fella sums it up beautifully. Can we just do what he says please?!