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Wednesday, 10th of December, 2003Tuesday, 9th of December, 2003
Cagéd (10:38 pm)
As usual forgetting to use this blog as a forum for Stuff Wot I’m Doing. This time it’s not so much self-promotion as promotion of an important issue; this Saturday from about 10:30 I shall be incarcerated in a cage down at Bondi Pavillion for an hour or so as part of the Daybreak in Detention event being organised by A Just Australia for Refugees and Amnesty International. In the cage with me, apparently, will be Senator Aden Ridgeway of the Australian Democrats, who probably get my second vote after the Greens, although I will certainly be pleased if Mark Latham’s ALP can oust Johnny Howard’s regime. Whether conversation will ensue “inside”, I don’t know, but if this symbolic gesture can have any effect on the fate of the many refugees incarcerated for mind-boggling lengths of time under appalling situations, that can only be a good thing, and I’m proud to play a small part in it.
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All the way with FBi (11:48 am)
Checking out the “YOUR COMMENTS” section on FBi’s Home page, I noticed someone had posted this on Monday:
Cheers to you, Alex (no I don’t know him!) and I do agree that dissing 2ser is totally not on. Whilst there have been some bad vibes from some in the 2ser camp regarding FBi, I’ve always felt that FBi hasn’t set itself up as “competition” with that fine station, and we should be able to have a good relationship, like 3PBS and 3RRR (mostly) have… In any case, it’d be bad form regardless. I do think if that’s happened it’d be once in a blue moon.
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Thursday, 4th of December, 2003
Not so Bright? (10:30 pm)
In this intelligent article on Butterflies and Wheels, Jeremy Stangroom (New Media editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine) argues that the brights, who are pushing the word bright to refer to people like me (who are atheists, believing the world is free of Despite my oh-so-favourite philosopher Dan Dennett jumping aboard (see this article for instance), I have to agree. I like the idea very much, but the word “bright” is so tied up with its meaning as “intelligent” that the whole project is done a real disservice. A more neutrally positive word would’ve done a better job.
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