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Latham's Law

Latham’s law

7 January 2012

10:00 PM

7 January 2012

10:00 PM

December was a bad month for the Kim family. First Kim Il-Carr was dumped from Julia Gillard’s cabinet. Then Kim Jong-Il passed away in North Korea. Dictatorships are not what they used to be, both within Labor’s factional system and inside the Hermit Kingdom.

One of the endearing traditions of the Western media is to lionise people at the time of their death.

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