Thinking out loud
Patriotism (n): devoted love, support, and defense of one’s country; national loyalty.
Nationalism (n): excessive patriotism; chauvinism.
Chauvinism (n): zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory.
It’s that time of year again; the rednecks show up, get shitfaced, loudly proclaim their love of beer, the southern cross, and Sam Kekovich, and then declare that [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2010 by Bosun McShiny
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My name is Emma, and I am a chronic bibliophile. I recently began cataloguing my personal library (after all, what else does one do with a barcode scanner and spare hard drive space?) and have discovered that there are an awful lot of books in this house. It was suggested by someone I was speaking [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2010 by Bosun McShiny
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Following on from my post “Interesting to the Public”, I’m writing today about another topic that has arisen from Rann-gate.
My question is this: Should we hold our leaders to a higher standard of behaviour than that of the general public?
It used to be that what was OK for Uncle Jimmy (shaving a bit off taxes [...]
Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by Bosun McShiny
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