Archive for May, 2011

Backing Blanchett

By Bruce Gorton | 31 May 2011

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Petty irritations: I don’t care what people think of me

By Bruce Gorton | 30 May 2011

Do you know what we call people who actually don’t care what others think of them? Sociopaths.

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What poetry tells me about South Africa

By Bruce Gorton | 30 May 2011

On Thursday evening I read my poetry out loud before a group of people for the first time since high school.

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Bastrop: A summary

By Bruce Gorton | 27 May 2011

Greta Christina has done a post describing exactly how the Bastrop incident took place.

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Feng Shui master gets arrested

By Bruce Gorton | 26 May 2011

A Feng Shui master has been arrested for forging someone’s will – which is to say fraud not relating to telling people that putting the bed there will result in you getting rich, while putting it here will get you laid.

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Catholic peadophilia case – still minimising (updated)

By Bruce Gorton | 25 May 2011

Miranda Celeste has done a close reading of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ report into peadophile priests, and its not good.

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The end of the rapture

By Bruce Gorton | 23 May 2011

As it turns out the world didn’t end this weekend, which leaves Harold Camping looking like an idiot – so not much has changed.

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How I spent the end of the world

By Bruce Gorton | 22 May 2011

May 21st was supposed to be the end of the world – and I spent the day in a rather relaxed mood cooking steak skewers and chicken wings done in peri-peri.
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Not even the Christians believe in their God

By Bruce Gorton | 20 May 2011



In America, in a town named for a fraud, they believe heavily in their God, so their school decided to have a big old pray on graduation day.

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Monday blues

By Bruce Gorton | 17 May 2011

Apparently the ANC, which has proclaimed it is going to rule until Jesus comes back in 2009, is going to lose this coming local election.

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