Alas, reason is in short supply in Canberra...
Alas, reason is in short supply in Canberra...
http://riaus.org.au/articles/blowing-away-reason/
http://riaus.org.au/articles/blowing-away-reason/
Knives Out (2019)
Knives Out is a classic whodunnit. No, that's not right. Knives Out is a brilliant comedy whodunnit.
With a cast of thoroughly unlikeable characters, and a scattering of ones who are not, this riotous tale of who murdered the murder-mystery writer is a joy to watch. The actors are chewing the scenery with more gusto than a nest of termites, there are red herrings and Chekhov's guns popping up at every turn, and in the centre of it all is the victim's nurse. A young lady, still living with her kid sister and her mother and possessing a most unusual physiological response, she is the glue of the film.
Throw in a private consulting detective a la Sherlock Holmes, and a police trooper who is a fan of both the writer and the detective, and you have a bubbling cauldron of personalities that delight at every turn.
It would be not unfair to compare it with Clue and Murder By Death, my two gold standards of comedy whodunnit, and it compares very well indeed.
10/10 and Miss Marple as i…
With a cast of thoroughly unlikeable characters, and a scattering of ones who are not, this riotous tale of who murdered the murder-mystery writer is a joy to watch. The actors are chewing the scenery with more gusto than a nest of termites, there are red herrings and Chekhov's guns popping up at every turn, and in the centre of it all is the victim's nurse. A young lady, still living with her kid sister and her mother and possessing a most unusual physiological response, she is the glue of the film.
Throw in a private consulting detective a la Sherlock Holmes, and a police trooper who is a fan of both the writer and the detective, and you have a bubbling cauldron of personalities that delight at every turn.
It would be not unfair to compare it with Clue and Murder By Death, my two gold standards of comedy whodunnit, and it compares very well indeed.
10/10 and Miss Marple as i…
I'd like to report that when I go near a wind farm I always feel happy and energised and I feel brighter!
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ReplyDeletePower stations are an eyesore and are surrounded by razor wire fences
Coal mines increase my blood pressure, even if I'm not near them! Ban them!
ReplyDeleteI think part of the reason that "You can't choose your own facts" gets ignored is that people think that scientists are "choosing their own facts". For most people science is a synonym for technology with no other connotations. For them science is a thing not a process.
ReplyDeleteThis is not helped by the total failure of the education system to ever describe what science actually is or how it works.
It is also not helped by the ignorant media who like to poke fun at the funny people in white coats who do things that they don't understand but sound pretty out there.
Nor is it helped by the way that the advertising industry is allowed to slap "scientifically proven" over any dodgy claim they want to promote.
Once your ideology narrows the function of science down to "only functions to support industry" it is only a small step to "science must support the government" and then it is a small step to "publishing science that contradicts the government 'truth' is treason" because the government is the country and attacking one obviously attacks the other.
:( now I'm really depressed.