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It seems that when a BBC reporter knocked on his door recently, he came out pretending to stab her several times with a banana.
True enough (I concede in advance), there aren't many pols out there who actually live up to this standard-but let's not give the vital center a bad name by pretending that it's no more than dishonest tacking.
The Herald said monarchist Prime Minister John Howard was under suspicion and linked the change to the monarchists' strategy of pretending the queen doesn't exist or, at any rate, doesn't matter.
But diGenova is being disingenuous in pretending he has no idea why anyone would be interested in him.
Now, Culturebox may well be correct that hungry young males (or hungry old defense attorneys, or jurors of all ages and appetites) are incapable of resisting the temptation of "tout comprendre, tout pardonner ." But if so, then it is hardly a triumph for her preferred "willed culture" over the animal model; rather, it is a subtler, richer application of the evolutionary psychologists' fundamentally wise observation: that social institutions fail unless they treat humans as the instinct-driven creatures they are, and avoid pretending that they are the self-defining logical and aesthetic intellects that Culturebox would like them to be.