Comments on: John Howard on the good, the bad and the well-read http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/05/john-howard-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-well-read/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:54:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Christine Harris http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/05/john-howard-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-well-read/#comment-33512 Christine Harris Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:01:15 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/05/john-howard-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-well-read/#comment-33512 'Archbishop Peter Hollingworth, whom Howard appointed in 2001' - definitely a Howard app0intee - but which Howard? And surely belongs with Ernest Titterton (Tom, 5/8). ‘Archbishop Peter Hollingworth, whom Howard appointed in 2001’ -
definitely a Howard app0intee - but which Howard? And surely belongs with Ernest Titterton (Tom, 5/8).

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/05/john-howard-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-well-read/#comment-33481 Tom McLoughlin Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:29:58 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/05/john-howard-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-well-read/#comment-33481 Howard is mad. Stark raving mad. More sincere than a madman chasing you round the house with an axe. No sense of failure to locate WMD in Iraq. No understanding of Hansonism as misplaced pride in profound ignorance. Typical of a guy prostrate to privilege happy for the dumb to play in their own mud: A gun toting, rev head, white bread rump so scolded by missing out on free education in the 70ies and 80ies they can't analyse their own frustration and take it out on foreigners instead of their own regretable ill education. No concept of why he was punted obviously. Like the small matter of the world's best scientists giving us the hard word on global warming is real - like glaciers retreating, the carbonic acid dissolving the plankton (building blocks of say half our atmospheric oxygen). Small stuff like that. A small man, small man syndrome, with a 1950ies concept of ecological realities, weaned on big bang technology like Titterton's promise of fusion reactors. Easily bracketed as 'will not be missed'. Howard is mad. Stark raving mad. More sincere than a madman chasing you round the house with an axe.

No sense of failure to locate WMD in Iraq.

No understanding of Hansonism as misplaced pride in profound ignorance. Typical of a guy prostrate to privilege happy for the dumb to play in their own mud: A gun toting, rev head, white bread rump so scolded by missing out on free education in the 70ies and 80ies they can’t analyse their own frustration and take it out on foreigners instead of their own regretable ill education.

No concept of why he was punted obviously. Like the small matter of the world’s best scientists giving us the hard word on global warming is real - like glaciers retreating, the carbonic acid dissolving the plankton (building blocks of say half our atmospheric oxygen). Small stuff like that.

A small man, small man syndrome, with a 1950ies concept of ecological realities, weaned on big bang technology like Titterton’s promise of fusion reactors.

Easily bracketed as ‘will not be missed’.

]]> By: AR http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/05/john-howard-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-well-read/#comment-33476 AR Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:00:43 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/05/john-howard-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-well-read/#comment-33476 The Rodent's comment of meeja treatment of the Oxley Moron illustrates the difficult concept of litotes, which Oz has well rendered as "yer not wrong..!" It does NOT (necessarily) mean 'correct' but that a point is being made, even if as always with Mr Non Core (what is there in place of a heart?), even if for entirely the wrong reasons and mendacious in extemis. The Rodent’s comment of meeja treatment of the Oxley Moron illustrates the difficult concept of litotes, which Oz has well rendered as “yer not wrong..!”
It does NOT (necessarily) mean ‘correct’ but that a point is being made, even if as always with Mr Non Core (what is there in place of a heart?), even if for entirely the wrong reasons and mendacious in extemis.

]]> By: paddy http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/05/john-howard-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-well-read/#comment-33461 paddy Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:04:50 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/05/john-howard-on-the-good-the-bad-and-the-well-read/#comment-33461 You're a brave man Andrew, well done and I'd say J.Green owes you a crate of beer. :-) Sitting through 55 mins of the great leader, reminiscing about how things *should* be, seems above and beyond the call of duty. I certainly couldn't have lasted the distance. You’re a brave man Andrew, well done and I’d say J.Green owes you a crate of beer. :-)

Sitting through 55 mins of the great leader, reminiscing about how things *should* be, seems above and beyond the call of duty.
I certainly couldn’t have lasted the distance.

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