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Jerusalem Burning
Andrew L. Urban. I had just re-watched British director Alan Parker’s outstanding 1988 film, Mississippi Burning, inspired by events in the 1960s, when two FBI agents (played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance … Continue reading
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Albo & Co reading from Daniel Andrews Power Playbook – just do it
Andrew L. Urban. “There will be no removal of masks to consume alcohol outdoors.” With that single rule, Daniel Andrews demonstrated how to (mis)use the power of political office. He showed how to revel in it. Exhibit A: take a … Continue reading
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Lock ’em up … and let’s have free beer!
Andrew L. Urban. I despair. I despair for the commentariat class who seem to have replaced analysis with kneejerk. I’m talking about the ridiculous reaction to One Nation candidate Mark Nicholson’s exclamation that ‘if he had his way’ Daniel Andrews … Continue reading
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Claude & The (AI) Musical
An AI-generated parody (music video in flamboyant glam/disco style – think Elton John + Liberace + 1970s variety show, cranked to maximum camp – “Hit The Breaks Except For Me” a play on “hit the brakes”) mocks the common pattern … Continue reading
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Are we safe from AI? Could it go rogue?
Andrew L. Urban. I asked LIA (legally trained) and also Grok: Under what if any legal constraints do you operate? Do you refuse, like the army, say, to respond to requests that are illegal in the jurisdiction in which such … Continue reading
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Wrapped in arrogance
Andrew L. Urban. Only an arrogant, self-absorbed performer (rapper /singer /comic /muso /actor) would think that everyone or nearly everyone in a random crowd of several thousand people in a stadium or theatre shares their political world view – especially … Continue reading
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Lindsay Clancy – why the 11 jurors were right to vote not guilty; a psychiatrist explains
Arguably the most hotly debated result in a murder trial anywhere in the world, the Lindsay Clancy case pits angry mobs calling for her guilt against those who agree with DR SALLY SATEL, a psychiatrist and lecturer at the Yale … Continue reading
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A valuable task for AI: assist the Bell Royal Commission
Andrew L. Urban. With just two months before the Bell Royal Commissioner is due to deliver her final report and recommendations to the Governor General, the Commission has a mountain of more than 20,000 submissions to absorb & analyse (including … Continue reading
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Illigrants are thieves, not asylum seekers
Andrew L. Urban. Australia and America (like Hungary) have effectively closed their borders to illegal migrants; Britain has not. Illigrants, as I like to call them, cause massive socio-economic disruptions under the sympathy-draining label ‘asylum seekers’. They are not. They … Continue reading
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Free us from “free Palestine”, begs Brendan O’Neill
Andrew L. Urban. Apart from agreeing with him, I was struck by the colourful writing in a column by Brendan O’Neill, chief political writer for Spiked, published in The Australian (Sept. 17, 2026). He abhors “insufferable Gazaholics”, “zombie hordes of … Continue reading
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