Are you or do you have a vegan friend who remembers creamy dishes fondly but hasn't found a substitute ( Read more... )

Almost there. At the top of my game. Which means that the asymptotic problem of a satisfactory thesis has defaulted to a geniune, Peirce/James/Dewey type pragmatics. I'm no philosopher but those American pragmatists wrote some mighty fine lines ( Read more... )

So, the wedding of a tribal chieftain to a wealthy burgher's daughter and the orgiastic celebration of a former employee's assassination... I'm taking some time out of the media to re-emerge when everyone starts pretending that capitalism isn't a chest-thumping blood cult again.

So apparently the entire American professoriate is involved in a gigantic, exploitative Ponzi scheme running to the tune of USD800 billion, in which tuition fees have increased tenfold over four decades - a bit ahead of CPI innit: http://nplusonemag.com/bad-educationRead more... )

At the end of our two-lane nature strip sandwich street is a sign saying 'Local Traffic Only'. It's possibly the most ignored official sign since the Deepwater Horizon 'This worksite accident free since...' notice because our street makes it possible to bypass a bottleneck on Sydney Road. In addition to the sign, the Local Powers That Be have added ( Read more... )

http://www.news.com.au/business/australias-1b-addiction-to-cosmetic-surgery/story-e6frfm1i-1226031303908Read more... )

Who gives a fuck about NSW anyway?

Paul Keating perhaps: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/45678.html

http://www.philosophynow.org/issue82/Morality_is_a_Culturally_Conditioned_Response

This is a deeply bad article. For example:

Allegation: Relativism doesn’t allow moral progress ( Read more... )

I've returned here after a long time. Seems quiet, but the voices that I do still hear are ones I like. I suspect the people who are left don't mind that it's a bit quieter. Quiet can be just fine ( Read more... )

OK, so the NaNoThesisMo thing totally didn't work out for me because I fully didn't take into account the intellectually and temporally devastating quantity of marking I would have to do this month. Que sera, sera. I still got a boatload of writing done, and it won't be long before I'm free ( Read more... )