http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/erick/ A Punch regular who needs no introduction. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-i-love-about-women/ Last week Tory Shepherd explained the seven things she’d miss about men if they vanished from the earth. Punch regular Erick commented this piece earlier in the week. Since it may have been overlooked amongst this week’s leadership clusterpunch, we’ve republished it here. A few days ago, Mahhrat, Emma and others asked me if I could come up with a list of seven things I’d miss if all women disappeared from the world. That’s not something I’d ever considered, so it took me a while to come up with an answer. Of course it would have been trivially easy to list seven things that I find sexually attractive, but that’s a rather shallow view. It would be equally easy to just say the human race would end, but that wouldn’t necessarily be true since biological science could probably find a way. So what’s left are those nice things that men just can’t provide in the same way. In no particular order: feedback@thepunch.com.au (Erick) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-i-love-about-women/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-i-love-about-women/#item7883 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:35:42 +0000 Erick | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/erick-i-am-just-one-voice/ I don’t usually write about myself, because I’m interested in issues rather than personalities. Some commenters - not speaking of you, James - frequently try to derail conversations by launching personal attacks, and the best response is to ignore these and concentrate on the topic at hand. In this case, however, I can make an exception because the topic is me. It’s good to be recognised, even in a tongue-in-cheek way. Not just because it amuses me or inflates my ego, but because it means my message is being heard. Of course, I don’t expect James to suddenly renounce the errors of his ways and become a born-again conservative, but then that isn’t my purpose. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Erick) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/erick-i-am-just-one-voice/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/erick-i-am-just-one-voice/#item5555 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:01:30 +0000 Erick | Author bios | The Punch