Beatles’ ode to John Howard 27 Nov 2007 This is kicking a man when he’s down, but the iPod popped this up to me last night, and I thought how appropriate it is to the election outcome: I’m looking through you Where did you go I thought I knew you What did I know You don’t look different But you have changed I’m looking through you You’re not the same Your lips are moving I cannot hear You voice is soothing But the words aren’t clear You don’t sound different I’ve learned the game I’m looking through you You’re not the same Why, tell me why Did you not treat me right Love has a nasty habit Of disappearing overnight You’re thinking of me The same old way You were above me But not today The only difference Is you’re down there I’m looking though you And you’re nowhere Why, tell me why Did you not treat me right Love has a nasty habit Of disappearing overnight I’m looking through you Where did you go I thought I knew you What did I know You don’t look different But you have changed I’m looking through you You’re not the same Yeah, Oh, baby you’ve changed Aah, I’m looking through you Yeah, I’m looking through you You’ve changed, you’ve changed You’ve changed, you’ve changed Politics
Education More on the CT teacher case 8 May 2010 It now appears that the teacher who was forbidden to teach evolution because it was “philosophically unsatisfying” (ORLY?) was done so by the headmaster, Mark Ribbens, alone. Ribbens tried to impugn teacher Mark Tangarone, a teacher in the Talented and Gifted Program (TAG), by falsely claiming he was “a disgruntled… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Evolution and the law 17 Jun 2009 A new paper by Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg entitled “Why Evolutionary Biology Is (So Far) Irrelevant To Legal Regulation” argues that evolution does not provide the legal system with any useful rules or guidance. Here’s the abstract: Evolutionary biology – or, more precisely, two (purported) applications of Darwin’s theory… Read More
Politics It’s the end of the world as he knows it 4 Dec 2008 This is just embarrassing. Here’s a representative of Parliament in the ALP, which I have noted before is increasingly pandering to religious interests: LABOR MP James Bidgood, the first-time MP under investigation for selling pictures of a protester attempting to set fire to himself outside Parliament House, has declared the… Read More
You wanna hear something weird? Because of the Chasers, your post makes perfect sense to me even though I’m from Israel. I think by now I know more about aussie politics than most aussies. How freakish is that?
That election should have been Howard’s to lose. a decade and a half of steady economic growth but all I ever heard about was John Howard’s chain of dubious stupidities. I know more about Aussie politics than I do about Vermont politics, but probably only because my governor blunders less.