Posts by Carol Stewart
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Coincidentally, our book group is currently reading The Emperor of Scent, about Luca Turin.
Sadly I have a very poor sense of smell so I'm not really able to join in the general rapture.. -
Hard News: The Mayor's marginal enemies, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
An entire post criticising the opponents of a politician without basically once addressing their arguments? Isn’t this textbook ad hominem?
Well, no, if the substance of their arguments is to hold fringe beliefs about 9/11, vaccination, climate change, fluoridation and so on. It's a total waste of time engaging with their arguments, and to even attempt to do so gives them unwarranted legitimacy.
I see Ian made the same point more elegantly ..
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Hard News: Bad Judgement, in reply to Biobbs,
One of the funny ones that once happened in the EC was when an opposing counsel tried to attack my independence because I was a trustee for a grass-roots environmental restoration group in the area of science I worked in.
My grandparents were active members of the Communist Party in England, and it caused difficulties for their eldest son (my uncle, who was a university-based geneticist) when he tried to further his career in the US.
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Hard News: Bad Judgement, in reply to Deborah,
And once we get to Nomination Day, my university will put me on unpaid leave (about 4 to 6 weeks out from the election, depending).
It's great that you don't have to burn any bridges.
There are of course some notable precedents for academics going into politics .. -
Hard News: Bad Judgement, in reply to nzlemming,
Well, thanks again for your sage advice. Guess we'll leave those hoardings down for the time being, or just flash them at sympathetic passers-by.
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Hard News: Bad Judgement, in reply to nzlemming,
Thank you very much for that very helpful reply, nzl.
We both work for a CRI, though I'm a subcontractor rather than employee. I can't see CRIs in that list of organisations covered by the state servants code of conduct - can that be right?
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Hoping you knowledgeable folks can enlighten me here - is it OK to display party billboards on your property at home if you work for a government agency? Partner says no, I say yes.
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Seems like the Basin reserve are on the right track. We got 5 day passes for $90, and if we'd been more organised we could have gotten them for $45. It has been gloriously worthwhile. They've also been applying some judicious discounting - a school friend of my lad's got in for the final session yesterday for $5.
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Coming to Wellington as well.
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Congratulations RB. This is a lovely Christmas present to your readers here.
On a related note, I was extremely proud of my 14 year old lad when he fluently delivered a mihi to open his school's prize-giving last week. So cool.