Some of you may have noticed a Twitter account called ' Sarhanis '. In any event, Antonios Sarhanis is its proprietor and we got to talking on Twitter and discovered that we shared various maladies. He's interested in philosophy but pretty unimpressed with the way it's handled...
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The probability of a massive nuclear war the next 10 years between any of the 8 current nuclear powers (US, UK, France, Russia, India, Pakistan, NK, Israel) seems low. The bluster of the leaders is supposed to make the threat look a bit bigger than it is in order to get negoti...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyfUu_fNQfM Well folks after a gruelling (if largely imaginary) 24 hour period haggling with other Troppmeisters, I'm pleased to announce Troppo's unanimous support for The Donald for President of the Greatest Country on Earth. We were locked in...
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[video width="480" height="360" mp4="http://clubtroppo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/yt1s.com-Christopher-Hitchens-Why-Women-Still-Arent-Funny_360p.mp4"][/video] I have a strange habit of looking for bargain books. Why is this a strange habit? Because it looks awfully like...
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Hoist from archives for a brief re-appearance. [caption id="attachment_24972" align="alignright" width="350"] A value we hold dear at Troppo - what's there not to like about being open and authentic? A Christmas Season message from Troppo[/caption] A Troppo community service:...
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Reviving an old Troppo tradition - and you can cheat if you want to by following the picture's url. And what's causing the dark streaks?
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Disappointed Troppo readers everywhere have gradually come to a realisation - upon which I came clean on in a recent thread . Troppo is really an 'eyeballs' play as we say in the trade and things haven't been this good for eyeballs since Tim Blair sent some brownshirts our way...
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I learned this somewhat startling fact last week. I was in a group of people - public servants - who clearly thought it was a problem, something to be 'managed' or ameliorated in some way. After all, it's not very balanced is it? Anyway my guess as to why it's happening is the...
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I made a comment here a couple of days ago which I believe expresses the frustrations of many about the chronic failure of the Labor government, both under Rudd and Gillard, to effectively prosecute the case for reform in just about every area: The puzzle here, as in contempor...
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Yes folks as part of our relentless drive to leverage our world class infrastructure and skills to bring our readers to their personal delight point - and beyond, Subho Banerjee of PM&C emailed me (amongst others to tell me of the opportunities below). He assured me that anyon...
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I'd read this paper. Date: 2009-09-22 By: André De Palma (ENS Cachan - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Department of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS : UMR7176 - Polytechnique - X) Nathalie Picard (Department of Economics, Ecole Po...
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A few years ago I sponsored a bunch of Afghani kids on a soccer playing tour of Queensland and NSW. It was a privilege to meet some of the kids. I expected to find kids who'd grown up in a peasant culture, who would not be particularly interested in education. One tends to thi...
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The Love Gods are back after a much-needed rest to recharge their advisory potency. Replete with psychic Viagra they're ready again to hop into another romantically beset reader. This week we've raided the mailbag of Murdoch lovelorn columnist Kate de Brito, whose brother Sam...
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(posted on behalf of The Receptionist) Somehow it's always me who ends up doing the work around here. As Dr Troppo's receptionist I seem to have a never ending series of chores to perform. Clearing out beer bottles and pistachio nut shells from under his desk, washing cigarett...
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Last week's Love Gods column was sadly blighted by the fact that our supplicant middle-aged lawyer was a distinctly unsympathetic character. This week it's different. Our plaintive female client is in a terrible pickle, albeit one involving a husbandly type presciently diagnos...
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I'm beginning to have serious reservations about whether we did the right thing in letting these Love Gods loose on Samantha Brett's unsuspecting lovelorn readers. Poor Shami , tender ego shrivelled and crushed underfoot! But did that stop our Love Gods? Oyster and bacon nibbl...
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Well, last week's inaugural edition of Ask Troppo's Love Gods seemed to go well. I certainly haven't heard from our supplicant reader Gen, so can only assume she was well satisfied with the advice our Love Gods gave her. Unfortunately, one of our putative Love Gods in Nabakov...
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Sometimes I'm overcome with a feeling that Club Troppo's tone is rather too uniformly earnest and worthy. Dr Troppo's posts sometimes help to dispel the ennui, but I can't help thinking more is needed. There's so much more to life than politics, law and economics. Love and rel...
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