Comments on: World Cup finalists reflect their governments

By: deus

deus — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:49:49 +0000

The more a formerly homogenous country becomes ethnically diverse, the more it moves to the right. Not always, but more often than not. The more your neighbour doesn’t look like you, the less you want to share. See Professor Putman for such studies.

By: Will O'

Will O' — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:41:18 +0000

That’s it in a nutshell, Richie. Until the merde contacts the personal fan, people go on their merry solipsistic way. If just once a day (instead of once every blue moon) we could recall the old Biblical exhortation to do unto others the world would be vastly different.

Thwarted thus far in my search for a vuvuzela. Wife threatens to leave if I’m successful.

By: Richie

Richie — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:36:23 +0000

I kind of did the same thing as the old boy did. I was very conservative till my early 20s… even voted for that Skeksi Howard once upon a time! Then I became disabled and saw for myself how nasty the government of the day was to the disadvantaged, and was forced to rethink my views on a lot of issues. I tend to view conservatism as a delusion that can only be cured for many people when they are forced to see how people outside the white picket fence live.

OMG, instead of focusing on boat people, why aren’t our pollies trying to stop the insidious flow of vuvuzelas into our country?! Someone stop the horns! But if you can’t find one, just get a bee hive. They sound the same and will have the same effect on your daughter.

By: Will O'

Will O' — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:04:41 +0000

Nice to hear of someone on the Right going the other way with age. Young lefties inevitably turn conservative in their elder years — with all those possessions to protect from the new lefties.

I wonder if I’m the only one who misses those Vuvuzelas. Gonna look for one to get my daughter out of bed in the morning.

Check this for a hoot.

By: Richie

Richie — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:14:22 +0000

I might have mentioned this to you before Will O’, but my dad is originally from Spain, so he is over the moon right now. He’s been waiting for this victory for a long time.

Oddly enough, he looks back on the Franco years fondly. He lived through the Civil War and was part of Franco’s presidential guard (even met El Caudillo a few times). Yet he votes Labor… oh the paradoxes!