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At first blush, Peter Dutton’s crackdown on rainbow dress-ups in the Australian military is a groan-worthy storm-in-a-teacup. But look closer, and you’ll see the teacup’s bobbing on deeper political currents.
In case you blinked and missed it, the Australian Defence Force last week held a morning tea marking the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia – the acronym, IDAHOBIT, is just as catchy – to which staff had been encouraged to wear rainbow clothing in support of the cause. This prompted the Minister for Defence, and Morrison government’s chief cultural warrior, to ban events involving “particular clothes in celebration”.
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There is nothing like watching the Illinois General Assembly.
Whether floor debate or witnesses testifying before the Agriculture, Environment and Energy Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, it s riveting stuff, which explains why former Gov. Bruce Rauner once dreamed of projecting Capitol proceedings onto a giant screen across the street from the governor s mansion as part of a destination park that never got built.
For some folks, keeping an eye on lawmakers is duty, not recreation. This includes journalists who toil to inform on such matters as taxes, politics and shenanigans. Who s a journalist can be in eye of the beholder. Sometimes, the only beholders that count are folks being watched.
This is a story about one of my favorite dad jokes.
My dad passed away ten years ago. He died of an enlarged heart, and when the news spread in our neighborhood, well-meaning friends and acquaintances would walk up to my brother and me and tell us, “Your dad died as he lived, with a big heart.” It never failed to annoy us. We didn t want to be cheered up with idiotic aphorisms that put a positive spin on his medical condition. So we started telling people that he d been killed by a colon parasite.
“He died as he lived,” we’d say, nodding meaningfully. “With angry, irritable bowels.”