tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post2516745535578181654..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Andrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-3173208968516679102010-07-06T19:57:18.766+10:002010-07-06T19:57:18.766+10:00Expensive and bullshit, no doubt. Whatever my rese...Expensive and bullshit, no doubt. Whatever my reservations about what's been announced today, it was at least edifying to see Gillard at the Lowy Institute trying to reframe and transcend the current debate about asylum seekers. On the other hand I've lost count of the number of times I've heard Morrison and Abbott use the word 'boatpeople' today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-12232134795105828732010-07-06T09:45:52.376+10:002010-07-06T09:45:52.376+10:00Kesey and Timothy Leary did this with their Merry ...Kesey and Timothy Leary did this with their Merry Pranksters in the early '60s and the phrase was in the language by the early '70s. Jonestown was 1979, a reversal of Marx's notion with farce first then tragedy.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-42953216369577947422010-07-05T22:55:12.565+10:002010-07-05T22:55:12.565+10:00I always thought drinking the Kool-Aid was a refer...I always thought drinking the Kool-Aid was a reference to Jim Jones? The metaphor stands either way I guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-39922195565196959902010-07-05T21:38:55.423+10:002010-07-05T21:38:55.423+10:00I've always thought "Drinking the Kool-Ai...I've always thought "Drinking the Kool-Aid" refers to the mindless mental slavery of the people who died in the Jonestown massacre after Jim Jones ordered them to drink poisoned Kool-Aid.David Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01594699576390357505noreply@blogger.com