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tgk1946 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:59:44 +0000

Is there one for Posterous?

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No more

Borders protection

tgk1946 — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:11:13 +0000

The upheaval in the book trade is somehow linked to the ongoing expressions of disquiet about our cultural heritage. As a small-time buyer of used books, may I suggest two further areas to be subjected to cost-benefit analysis?
One is the huge pile of discarded fiction that clutters second-hand bookshops on its’ way to the pulp mill. If booksellers are concerned about cheap books in supermarkets, then perhaps the retail trade has been built on a financial base of junk.
The second is about the number of new homes that include fixed bookshelves. The problem may not be e-books, as such, but the outlays, in money and time, on home entertainment systems and spaces.
What is the nature of the link between the latest airport pot-boiler and Ruskin’s The Stones Of Venice? Until we examine that question, we cannot make presumptions about the future of our literature in a digitised world.

(not published)

Spectrum 2008

tgk1946 — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:02:57 +0000

See GavriloP comment.

There’s a lot of nonsense spoken in the name of God/Jesus …

tgk1946 — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:25:09 +0000

Steve Parker blog article

There was more to it

tgk1946 — Sat, 08 May 2010 10:02:16 +0000

As published in The Australian May 7th 2010, and as it was sent.

Greg Sheridan agrees with Tony Abbott’s suggestions for immigration
policy (‘No need to lead from the front on ETS action’, 6/5). But we
will never have broad agreement on how to manage a skilled migration program until we tackle the “flood of illegal immigrants” problem.

Isn’t it possible to tackle invading boats with more robust application
of our laws? The men on those craft ought to be held responsible for the safety and welfare of the women and children aboard. We’d send a boat operator to jail for a long time if he knowingly sent people out on an unseaworthy craft.

When we have a firm grip on people trafficking, then we can turn to the population dilemma. Essentially, do we want our skilled migrants to come from Greece or Vietnam?

Govt to teach parents how to raise kids

tgk1946 — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:24:22 +0000

In The Age

Drug dealers with degrees

tgk1946 — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:53:17 +0000

At Vanguard Oxycontin Express

Tom McLellan at TNR

tgk1946 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:49:01 +0000

With Harold Pollack’s Curbside Consult: Who’s Winning the War on Drugs?Marijuana is not good for you. You have to get that one exactly right. I didn’t say, “Marijuana’s not that bad.“ I said, “Marijuana’s not good for you.” And more people using marijuana is not good for society.

It turns out that Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, lots of these countries are coming to us now for help with their internal drug demand problems. So what have always been considered drug producing countries, now they are having significant internal addiction problems.

Trafficking of Bupenorphine

tgk1946 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:53:53 +0000

At MAC **testing for it** Updates 18/11 19/11

money to be made supplying BNX – bought in 0.5mg amounts for injection = > $100 for 16mg.
inmates with regular visitors pulled out for strip search
bleach is supplied (?available) to clean fits

18/11 Brumby commits to probe on jail drugs

19/11 Royal Abbott

More bloody idiots

tgk1946 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:18:29 +0000

In The Age by Beth Wilson