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Taster

We’ve been busy (and finishing off Robert Harris’ Lustrum in our spare time) so we have not had much time to bl*g these days. Here’s a taster of things to come on the net and on the paper this weekend.

It’s hot at Uni what with the KSU elections approaching and yours truly has been mentioned in vain and jest more than once. We will see what really went on between SDM, Graffitti and the likes almost 15 years ago, what respect in politics could have meant and why (oh why) is a bust of myself (not the manboobs but the adonis profile) would not be half as funny as it seems to be. We will find time to discuss the vernacular at the highest educational institutions of the state and we will also question the logical value of truth and the inherent difficulties of proving a negative unless you are a criminal lawyer. We will think again about the Papal scandalmongers and about the law and its detractors. All that and more coming up this weekend… so set the table and get ready to rumble.

*bl*g because bl*gging is now anathema thanks to the great advertorials present on the maltese bl*gosphere and consequent miseducation of Joe Bl*ggs.

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6 responses to “Taster”

  1. Fausto Majistral Avatar
    Fausto Majistral

    Will “almost 15 years ago” also include the goings-on in the latter half of 1996 with the introduction of plurality-at-large voting which is the cause of all the present grief at KSU?

    1. Jacques René Zammit Avatar
      Jacques René Zammit

      @Fausto: From the site you linked to: “Plurality-at-large voting (commonly referred to as block voting or the bloc vote) is a voting system for electing several representative”

      We’ve been over this for ages and yet you dig your head in the sand every time. Why I bother I know not but here it is again:

      The KSU EXECUTIVE is elected in this system – not the Social Policy Commission or the Education Commission. REPRESENTATION and POLICY FORMATION lies in the SPC and EC. When the KSU statute is properly at work the executive is an executor of the policies dictated by the elected representatives in the two organisms. Try. just try to understand.

      1. Fausto Majistral Avatar
        Fausto Majistral

        So, let’s see. You ELECT the KSU President but he doesn’t REPRESENT you. Yeah, makes sense.

        (Not to mention that you “representative” commissions actually represent other bodies not individuals. Which would makes the system not democratic but corporatist).

        I thought after all these years you had seen the light. That the KSU is in the predicament it is today because of a short-sighted decision in 1996. I’ll try to understand why you don’t mind a system that’s repeatedly disenfranchised some 45% of voters why getting all worked up another that wastes a percentage point or two. Am afraid I’ll fail.

    2. Jacques René Zammit Avatar
      Jacques René Zammit

      Or as you would say: “Yawn”.

  2. Virgil Avatar
    Virgil

    I didnt get your point:
    “why (oh why) is a bust of myself (not the manboobs but the adonis profile) would not be half as funny as it seems to be.”

    Are you saying you’re annoyed that someone mentioned you, or are you amused that your legacy penetrated the generation barrier?

    1. Jacques René Zammit Avatar
      Jacques René Zammit

      Apart from the obvious slip of the extra “is” into the sentence? I’d say more amused than annoyed – love the “legacy penetration of the generation barrier” bit. More than all this is the worry that the Fausto vs Us battle has been perpetrated for all the wrong reasons to this day.