Still, anyone who’s read Starship Troopers wouldn’t have too hard a time believing that Heinlein was a closet fascist.

And anyone who read Stranger in a Strange Land figured he was a grumpy old hedonist. Or anyone who read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress figured he was a grumpy old anarcho-capitalist. And so on.

The NT’s private school market is essentially Kormilda and St John’s. Kormilda is a sucky school which by accident has stumbled into money and the IB. St John’s a writeoff. In terms of quality education they struggle against Casuarina Senior College and Darwin Highschool.

The mystery is solved when you consider how small that market really is — so small that individual schools can tilt the balance by a statistically significant amount.

Well…who cares what Heinlein thinks. I don’t.

How very true, but not in the sense you wanted to convey.

Ken your reply wasn’t nearly as much of a stumping as FDB gave me on catallaxy.

Still, anyone who’s read Starship Troopers wouldn’t have too hard a time believing that Heinlein was a closet fascist.

So - create an embryo from some somatic cell of a male libertarian, remove they chromosome and slip in a duplicate of the X chromosome and presto - a little libertarian girl in the making.

But who would they get to gestate the wee bairn?

Can’t understand why. Surely there must be loads of women irresistibly attracted to self-centred right wing nerds

Does not equal left, therefore equals right.

Well done Sir.

Ken conflates the two questions which suggests that he thinks women vote based on their hormones.

Similarly:

Allison Brown holds the view that …

‘Women’s behaviour is governed by feelings whilst men are governed by logic. We are nurturers and we expect the ‘have’s’ to take care of the ‘have-nots”, the strong to take care of the weak. We want everyone to like us and we want everyone to like each other. Men, to put it simply, are more independent in thought and in action.’

Except for libertarian women of course. Since the difference is biologically based, there’s no way you can recruit more libertarian women from the existing population. Selective breeding is the obvious solution, raising the question “Is Polyandry the Way Forward for Libertarianism?”

constructive comment Ken. if you don’t like the article, why include it in your round-up? we can survive without the 2 extra visitors a Club Troppo referral brings in.

Mark’s second instalment where he plans to argue the case for hanging out for Mr Right, rather than settling for Mr Adequate should be a hoot.