Over in Birmo's Brisbane Times column:
"Winning" at Democracy is about the highly effective organization of idiots. Religion is the ultimate idiot organizational tool. It forms them into relatively coherent groups that are easily led by those that are clever enough to be in on the joke. The religious get pandered to by politicians because pandering to the religious is a proven electoral strategy.
Impressively sharp comment from Blarkon.
I do not believe that religious people are all idiots. My father is religious, and one of the smartest people you would meet. I do believe that this is how many of the parties see religious parties, as toys to manipulate and bribe. And manipulating this group is one of the key ways to get elected. I wish more people could think independently.
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The last couple of weeks - point form.
Weekend two back SCA college war - good fight, good fun, yay further bonding with new crew.
Birmo and Burgers - good chat, good food, drinks - hurrah
Last week and Last weekend - Four days straight moving house. Two days of move with ute. Yay Sui and ow muscles. Two days of unpacking boxes.
Dropped trailer on foot. Still purple a week later. Boo!
Week was early starts Up @ 6.15am for 7am starts when it is under freezing out.
Weeknights were unpacking boxes and some chillax.
Saturday - Went to Matt Farrer's book launch @ GW Woden, then 4 loads from the house. 2 to Sui's house, 1 to the tip, 1 to the house.
Sunday - Pottered around clearing boxes, the NRL with BP and Gnomes. Then dinner with BP. Watch "Twilight." Found it to be a reasonably good comedy.
Today - finishing shift soon then off to last run at Macmaw.
Birmo and Burgers - good chat, good food, drinks - hurrah
Last week and Last weekend - Four days straight moving house. Two days of move with ute. Yay Sui and ow muscles. Two days of unpacking boxes.
Dropped trailer on foot. Still purple a week later. Boo!
Week was early starts Up @ 6.15am for 7am starts when it is under freezing out.
Weeknights were unpacking boxes and some chillax.
Saturday - Went to Matt Farrer's book launch @ GW Woden, then 4 loads from the house. 2 to Sui's house, 1 to the tip, 1 to the house.
Sunday - Pottered around clearing boxes, the NRL with BP and Gnomes. Then dinner with BP. Watch "Twilight." Found it to be a reasonably good comedy.
Today - finishing shift soon then off to last run at Macmaw.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Brisvegas shines on like a crazy diamond
We parked in the new half built car park. Caught our flights on Virgin Blue. Caught the Airtrain in the Valley.
Grabbed a super bright long sleeved shirt from a goth botique on Brunswick street before heading up to Mana Bar. Manabar was heaps of fun, with about 20 friends all jammed in having fun. SCA, Burgers (Cheeseburger gothic blog fans) and gamer friends represented. Medway's awesome gurning unleashed a thousand photochop memes. We even achieved the internet fame of a Mana bar advert!
Went to dinner at the Tibetan place next to the Arts Theatre. 13 fine people did the banquet. It was nice, basic stuff, breads, dip and curries. Once they knew we needed to be done by the show, they got their shuffle on and we made it comfortably. There was plenty to eat, and some small amount was left behind - impressive with that ravaging horde. Burgers and my mates are good at maths - we were $1.50 over on the bill :)
Meeting up with the crew went smoothly, and tickets were distributed. Two friends who were just winging it managed to get in - Simon generously gave one of his comp tickets to Greg, and Toni managed to get in on the standby list.
They play was good fun. A couple of roles were compressed, but the right cuts were made. The jokes from the book all hit home despite knowing they were coming, and the latest jokes slipped in perfectly as well, with the added bonus of shock of the new. There were a couple of themed return reference jokes that were played perfectly, especially the musical numbers with Beyonce's "Put a ring on it" and "The Teddy Bear's picnic"
Nat's blog did a great job of outlining last night shennanigans.
Abe's ten bucks was returned in a very Birmo way - taped onto the commemorative urinal. If you want your ten bucks that bad, Mr Frellman...
Birmo popped a reference to the evening, with better Burger lists than I can recall in the comment.
I picked up some merch, a couple of stubbie coolers and a "Team York Street" t-shirt.
Grabbed a super bright long sleeved shirt from a goth botique on Brunswick street before heading up to Mana Bar. Manabar was heaps of fun, with about 20 friends all jammed in having fun. SCA, Burgers (Cheeseburger gothic blog fans) and gamer friends represented. Medway's awesome gurning unleashed a thousand photochop memes. We even achieved the internet fame of a Mana bar advert!
Went to dinner at the Tibetan place next to the Arts Theatre. 13 fine people did the banquet. It was nice, basic stuff, breads, dip and curries. Once they knew we needed to be done by the show, they got their shuffle on and we made it comfortably. There was plenty to eat, and some small amount was left behind - impressive with that ravaging horde. Burgers and my mates are good at maths - we were $1.50 over on the bill :)
Meeting up with the crew went smoothly, and tickets were distributed. Two friends who were just winging it managed to get in - Simon generously gave one of his comp tickets to Greg, and Toni managed to get in on the standby list.
They play was good fun. A couple of roles were compressed, but the right cuts were made. The jokes from the book all hit home despite knowing they were coming, and the latest jokes slipped in perfectly as well, with the added bonus of shock of the new. There were a couple of themed return reference jokes that were played perfectly, especially the musical numbers with Beyonce's "Put a ring on it" and "The Teddy Bear's picnic"
Nat's blog did a great job of outlining last night shennanigans.
Abe's ten bucks was returned in a very Birmo way - taped onto the commemorative urinal. If you want your ten bucks that bad, Mr Frellman...
Birmo popped a reference to the evening, with better Burger lists than I can recall in the comment.
I picked up some merch, a couple of stubbie coolers and a "Team York Street" t-shirt.
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