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Monday Message Board

February 20th, 2012 32 comments

It’s time for another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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Sandpit

February 14th, 2012 40 comments

A new sandpit for long side discussions, idees fixes and so on.

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Monday Message Board (on Tuesday)

February 14th, 2012 42 comments

It’s past time for another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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Monday Message Board

February 7th, 2012 25 comments

It’s time for another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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Monday Message Board

January 30th, 2012 12 comments

It’s time for another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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Sandpit

January 23rd, 2012 7 comments

A new sandpit for long side discussions, idees fixes and so on.

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Monday Message Board

January 23rd, 2012 9 comments

It’s time for another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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Weekend reflections

January 21st, 2012 20 comments

It’s time for another weekend reflections, which makes space for longer than usual comments on any topic. Side discussions to sandpits, please

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Monday Message Board

January 16th, 2012 16 comments

It’s time for another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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Weekend reflections

January 13th, 2012 10 comments

It’s time at long last for another weekend reflections, which makes space for longer than usual comments on any topic. Side discussions to sandpits, please

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Sandpit

January 9th, 2012 23 comments

A new sandpit for long side discussions, idees fixes and so on.

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Monday Message Board

January 9th, 2012 30 comments

It’s time for the first Monday Message Board of 2012. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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Sandpit

December 7th, 2011 103 comments

A new sandpit for long side discussions, idees fixes and so on.

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Sandpit

November 22nd, 2011 64 comments

A new sandpit for long side discussions, idees fixes and so on. I’m going to add MMT to nuclear power as a topic that should be confined to sandpits from now on. I’ve had my say on the subject, and the argument in the comment thread doesn’t seem to make anything any clearer.

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Sandpit

November 9th, 2011 36 comments

Another sandpit, specifically open for anyone who wants to debate the East African famine, the usefulness of aid and so on. But feel free to talk about other things.

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Sandpit

October 7th, 2011 34 comments

Another sandpit. You know the drill.

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Weekend reflections

October 7th, 2011 8 comments

It’s time again for weekend reflections, which makes space for longer than usual comments on any topic. Side discussions to sandpits, please

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Midweek message board

September 28th, 2011 15 comments

Here’s an open thread for succinct posts on any topic. Lengthy side disputes and idees fixes to the sandpit, please. Also, thanks to everyone for (mostly) maintaining civil discussion, despite my limited monitoring. Please keep it up.

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Another sandpit

September 28th, 2011 17 comments

At long last, another sandpit for those continuing debates people have been waiting for

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Monday Message Board (on Tuesday)

August 16th, 2011 10 comments

It’s past time again for the Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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Weekend reflections

August 5th, 2011 23 comments

It’s time again for weekend reflections, which makes space for longer than usual comments on any topic. In keeping with my attempts to open up the comments to new contributors , I’d like to redirect discussion, and restatements of previous arguments, as opposed to substantive new contributions, to the sandpit(s). In particular, please post nothing related to nuclear energy. As always, civilised discussion and no coarse language please.

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Monday Message Board

August 1st, 2011 58 comments

It’s time again for the Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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New sandpit

July 14th, 2011 18 comments

Here’s a new sandpit for (non-nuclear) lengthy side discussion, rants on idees fixes and so on.

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Monday Message Board

July 11th, 2011 27 comments

It’s time again for the Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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Monday Message Board

July 4th, 2011 8 comments

It’s time again for the Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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Weekend reflection

July 1st, 2011 18 comments

It’s time again for weekend reflections, which makes space for longer than usual comments on any topic. In keeping with my attempts to open up the comments to new contributors , I’d like to redirect discussion, and restatements of previous arguments, as opposed to substantive new contributions, to the sandpit(s). In particular, please post nothing related to nuclear energy. As always, civilised discussion and no coarse language please.

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New sandpit

July 1st, 2011 6 comments

Here’s a new sandpit for (non-nuclear) lengthy side discussion, rants on idees fixes and so on.

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Monday Message Board

June 20th, 2011 57 comments

It’s time again for the Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.

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Monday Message Board – Queens Birthday Edition

June 13th, 2011 33 comments

Time for another Monday Message Board, but we’re enjoying a long weekend, at least in Brisbane where the miserable weather of last week, forecast to continue for several days more, has disappeared. I’d welcome thoughts about the monarchy, honours lists and so on, and would also be interested to hear from readers affected by the volcanic ash clouds.

I’m tightening up on the civility rules and will, from now on, delete anything I regard as personal criticism of another commenter, along with coarse language. As usual, save long rants, extensive debates with other commenters, and repetition of old themes for an appropriate sandpit.

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Weekend reflections

June 3rd, 2011 54 comments

It’s time again for weekend reflections, which makes space for longer than usual comments on any topic. In keeping with my attempts to open up the comments to new contributors , I’d like to redirect discussion, and restatements of previous arguments, as opposed to substantive new contributions, to the sandpit(s). In particular, please post nothing related to nuclear energy. As always, civilised discussion and no coarse language please.

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