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Walking the Green Mile
June 21 was ordinary in the US. San Fransisco held a marathon, markets came to NY. And at 6:53pm, Texas executed Milton Mathis, a man with the mental age of a five-year-old. For John Stuart Mill, the...
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Losing Teachers, Taking Names.
On February 20 of this year, Sydney University announced it would sack 100 academics. It was time, Michael Spence told us, for some “serious belt-tightening”. The University warned its staff it was...
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Dark side of the Moon
Neil Alden Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of the moon, died this week. Romney paid tribute to Armstrong in his RNC speech in Tampa, in what may be the best example of limping Mittspeak...
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Lying to Lateline and other College Pranks
Dear Colleges, Do you understand that my dog has a better understanding of basic societal rules than you? Rules like “don’t almost kill people” and “don’t shit on the furniture”. She’s twenty one...
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A confession and a resolution
I’m appallingly-read. The last thing I read cover to cover was Tina Fey’s autobiography, and that was six months ago, and only because the inflight entertainment went out on the red eye. I can hold a...
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Book One: High Fidelity
“I’m thirty-five years old, and I own a tiny failing business, and my friends don’t seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven’t lost, and if I went back to sleep and slept for...
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Book Two: On the Road
One afternoon late last week, I sat in a café near my university, alone. I could afford a coffee and a cake with my pocket-change so I sat down at one-person wooden booth and read the first four...
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Book Three: The Great Gatsby
I had The Great Gatsby spoiled for me. Quite a lot of Lurhmann’s Great Gatsby was filmed on Glebe Island. I live opposite Glebe Island. Consequently, I saw the car crash scene not once but dozens of...
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Book Four: Winnie the Pooh
The fact that I had not read Winnie the Pooh is an indictment of everyone who has known me up until this point. The Pooh-shaped hole in my life is a collaborative failing of every teacher and family...
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Picking Up and Putting Down
“I’d sort of fight her, hold her down. Pick her up and throw her on the bed, straddle her, pin her hands above her head. You have to remind her that you’re dominant. That stuff only gets messed up when...
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