Posts by Russell Brown
-
Hard News: How I love the ladies ..., in reply to 3410,
Marsha Gee, "Peanut Duck", 1965
Threefer, you are the man with this stuff.
-
Juanita Rogers singing 'I'm So Glad You Love Me', from Sun Ra: The Singles, which covers Sonny's doo-wop era:
Love that.
-
Hard News: Media7: A new censor -- and a…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
To be fair to Andrew Jack (and his predecessors) he’s totally right that he has to work within the legislative framework he’s got. I just wish we’d all stop pretending that “injury to the public good” is some kind of objective concept like the speed of light.
I think the point is that the law now is – for better or worse – more explicitly prescriptive, leaving rather less room for intangible value judgements. Which is not, as you note, the same as being wholly objective.
-
I liked Andrew Jack -- he wasn't what I expected from a former legal advisor to Customs and the police, I'll tell you that.
The show is online here.
-
And in Yet More Weird, Bureaucratic Social Control news, David Cameron is proposing banning people from social media if they might be plotting criminal activity.
-
Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Russell, can we please have tags for monospaced font so that ASCII art is possible? Ta.
That is quite honestly the geekiest bloody thing I've read all year.
I'll see what I can do.
-
Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to BenWilson,
<aside>How many people know that when you look through a telescope the wrong way, it can make things seem small and distant unless you put them right up to the eyepiece? Then it works like a really powerful magnifying glass.</aside>
Woah. That's some deep shit right there.
-
Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to BenWilson,
I’d hope. I take Craig’s point that you can look through the other end of the telescope to avoid seeing the carnage sometimes. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look through it that way sometimes.
And I'm minded that I referred rather snippily to Tariq Ali's big-picture musings about the meaning of the riots upthread.
But, as I said, I tend to agree with your analysis. Throw in climate change -- a challenge to which democratic governments in market economies are struggling to rise -- and there's any amount of evidence that things can't continue as they have been.
-
Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Rich Lock,
You’ll be fine when society collapses: you’ve got a wind-up radio, remember?
And a wind-up torch now, too. Got it at the Mitre 10 Mega Centre on Sunday. I'm ready.
-
Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
You know something, I’m have a real problem getting invested in an existential crisis at the moment.
Suit yourself. I agree with Ben (must stop saying that) that we may be seeing a systemic crisis, at least for the West.
I'm more or less blocking out what's happening with sovereign debt and the financial markets right now, because worrying about it would simply be too depressing.