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For some reason, marriage is on my mind

August 28, 2011 – 10:00 am

Ok, I am still on honeymoon. And I’m not going to be blogging while we’re away. But it’s early in the morning here, my new wife’s asleep, and unfortunately someone’s just directed me to Ted Lapkin’s latest bout of stupidity, this time at The Age. In short: he “argues” (if that’s not too strong a [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Paul Kelly, Posted | Comments (36)

Demanding the death penalty by ignoring the obvious

August 10, 2011 – 11:07 am

UPDATE: Lapkin is also wrong with his opening gambit, on which the whole rant is based: “You can already mark it down on your calendars: July 22, 2032, is the day that Norway’s terrorist mass murderer Anders Breivik will get out of jail – free”. Norwegian law allows for “containment”, which in the case of [...]

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Weak girly bullets

June 30, 2011 – 1:54 pm

You know what? After Ms Olding’s #trollday effort (I presume Pure Poison readers have noticed by now that where Monday is Tony Abbott Stunt Day, Thursday is media organisations’ Deliberately Provocative Trolling Day), I’m not even going to bother with a detailed retort to Ted Lapkins silly attack on women in the Australian Defence Force [...]

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An IPA condemnathon, courtesy of the ABC

June 6, 2011 – 10:50 am

It’s the oldest and lamest sort of political trolling available: Check which terrible things your political opponents have condemned Find something else terrible that’s happened that they haven’t mentioned Disingenuously suggest that that means they support the terrible thing in (2). You’d think it was beneath any media organisation portraying itself as a serious news [...]

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