One perennial issue with right-wing types has been their opinion that they're always the smartest person in the room, and, also perennially, how whiny and discomfited they get when it's shown that they are not and that their cheap rhetorical tricks and patterns don't work on everyone.

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I'm old enough to remember when Pauline Hanson was so offended at being lampooned by drag artist 'Pauline Pantsdown' that she took her application for an injunction against PP all the way to the High Court. Seems the admonishment to 'have a laugh' only goes one way.

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Just had an email telling me the Quarterly Essay is off to print. Which means I can never look at it again, lest it explode with typos and howlers that have hidden themselves between the lines.

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Doubting Tommy interrupts supper to ask Jesus a question

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Australia could be $212 billion worse off under #OneNation’s plan to slash migration, with hundreds of thousands fewer workers paying tax and national debt forecast to soar. www.nine.com.au/australia-ne...

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