Another antipodean philosopher’s blog 3 Dec 2008 Note the careful ambiguity there: this is not a blog of another antipodean philosopher, but another blog of this antipodean philosopher. The ins and outs of Australian politics and policies are not of interest to much more than 0.3% of the world, so my asseverations are even less interesting to you all. Hence I have started an intermittent blog, The Drought Resistant Philosopher, wherein I will whine (or as we say here, whinge) about the latest stupidity from our representatives and public service, and so on. All ISP filtering posts will go there from now on. No more mister nice silverback. I even have an ugly photo of me as I am (or was a while back): no mercy at all! Administrative Censorship Internet filtering Politics Sermon Technology
Administrative The "who" thread 8 Jul 2010 I am, as they say in The Home Country, gobsmacked. I expected that I would have a few geeks (I’m a Geek! Say it Loud!) who read me because I was sort of interesting. Instead I find Phuds, scientists, philosophers and just plain interesting people. If one is judged by… Read More
Politics Is America fascist? 12 Oct 200818 Sep 2017 A while ago, almost exactly two years back, I asked Is the Bush Administration fascist? I think we can now safely say it is, at least in the style of Mussolini and Franco. Now Echidne of the Snakes has a series of articles up on whether the Republicans have so… Read More
Logic and philosophy Physicists on science 25 Nov 2007 I have a rule (Wilkins’ Law #35, I think) that if any scientist is going to draw unwarranted metaphysical conclusions, it will be a physicist, and in particular a cosmologist. Witness Paul Davies in the New York Times. Davies wants to argue something like this: Read More
Only if you care about Australian stuff, and what I have to say about it. But (and here’s a Blogger advantage over Scienceblogs) I have put a feed widget there with the last post, so you can see this blog from that point.
Only if you care about Australian stuff, and what I have to say about it. But (and here’s a Blogger advantage over Scienceblogs) I have put a feed widget there with the last post, so you can see this blog from that point.
Only if you care about Australian stuff, and what I have to say about it. But (and here’s a Blogger advantage over Scienceblogs) I have put a feed widget there with the last post, so you can see this blog from that point.
Va Diemen’s Land is not a part of Australia and I’ll shoot anyone who says it is. Actually, they’ll shoot anyone who says it is.
I sort of liked seeing those posts here. It does us provincial types good to see that there are actually other parts of the world where politics happens. And that people there care about their own local politics more than they care about ours. Plus, it’s good for morale to see that we’re not the only ones with some real morons in government.
I will quite happily admit to having been an information junkie all of my life, its probably why I ended up being a historian, and whilst I was originally lured to this antipodean den of sin and iniquity by a posting on the history of science I love the tit-bits that we get served up on Aussie culture and politics. I find it particularly stimulating when that band of international desperadoes who hang around in your comments column chime in with comparisons of the situation in Canada, Britain, Germany, Patagonia or Outer Mongolia; it’s much more stimulating than reading the newspaper or watching the nine o’clock news. Please reconsider your decision and give us back our window on Van Diemen’s Land.
I will quite happily admit to having been an information junkie all of my life, its probably why I ended up being a historian, and whilst I was originally lured to this antipodean den of sin and iniquity by a posting on the history of science I love the tit-bits that we get served up on Aussie culture and politics. I find it particularly stimulating when that band of international desperadoes who hang around in your comments column chime in with comparisons of the situation in Canada, Britain, Germany, Patagonia or Outer Mongolia; it’s much more stimulating than reading the newspaper or watching the nine o’clock news. Please reconsider your decision and give us back our window on Van Diemen’s Land.
I will quite happily admit to having been an information junkie all of my life, its probably why I ended up being a historian, and whilst I was originally lured to this antipodean den of sin and iniquity by a posting on the history of science I love the tit-bits that we get served up on Aussie culture and politics. I find it particularly stimulating when that band of international desperadoes who hang around in your comments column chime in with comparisons of the situation in Canada, Britain, Germany, Patagonia or Outer Mongolia; it’s much more stimulating than reading the newspaper or watching the nine o’clock news. Please reconsider your decision and give us back our window on Van Diemen’s Land.
I’ll second (or third or whatever) the non-bored non-Aussie sentiment — hell, I read American polly-blogs like Brayton, too! The shenanigans of venal politicians, aided and abetted by sundry religious bullies (and vice versa) is an affliction of all Western society to some extent, and I like to keep abreast of it wherever it occurs. But that’s OK: adding one more entry to the RSS subs is a trivial exercise, thus “one more blog to read” is not meaningfully a burden.
I’ll second (or third or whatever) the non-bored non-Aussie sentiment — hell, I read American polly-blogs like Brayton, too! The shenanigans of venal politicians, aided and abetted by sundry religious bullies (and vice versa) is an affliction of all Western society to some extent, and I like to keep abreast of it wherever it occurs. But that’s OK: adding one more entry to the RSS subs is a trivial exercise, thus “one more blog to read” is not meaningfully a burden.
I’ll second (or third or whatever) the non-bored non-Aussie sentiment — hell, I read American polly-blogs like Brayton, too! The shenanigans of venal politicians, aided and abetted by sundry religious bullies (and vice versa) is an affliction of all Western society to some extent, and I like to keep abreast of it wherever it occurs. But that’s OK: adding one more entry to the RSS subs is a trivial exercise, thus “one more blog to read” is not meaningfully a burden.
I agree with Mike. Coming to this blog for some hardcore philosophy and reading about Australian politics instead was like those days back in elementary school when you grudgingly made it to class that day just to happily learn that the teacher was sick and you could run around the classroom at will.
Now this what Australian philosophy ought to be like: lean, tanned, blunt, no-nonsense Bruce-ism with lashings of sheep-dip.
Now this what Australian philosophy ought to be like: lean, tanned, blunt, no-nonsense Bruce-ism with lashings of sheep-dip.
Now this what Australian philosophy ought to be like: lean, tanned, blunt, no-nonsense Bruce-ism with lashings of sheep-dip.