Otterday! And Open Thread.
Today’s otter was snapped in Yellostone by yathin on flickr.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.
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*cough* *splutter* *ache* *limp*
What energy I have is being conserved for things other than blogging, at the moment. I’m missing keeping on top of things, but not enough to actually do anything about it.
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A few links about what is and what is not a ‘blood libel’
A ‘blood libel’ is much more than just a ‘false accusation’, and there’s no way that the speech-writer couldn’t have known that.
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What would Anna Bligh do?
Anna Bligh, the Queensland Premier seems to finally be living up to the potential she showed when she first became Premier. Her leadership during this flood crisis matches much of what I have heard from those who have worked for and with her during her time as Premier – that she is calm, intelligent, respectful, decent, personable, sensible and brave – but the reality of her style never previously translated to her broader public image. Some of the criticism of Bligh applies across the board to politicians generally, who these days seem to be over-prepared for public appearances to the point of coming across as robotic and false.
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Observations from West End, Brisbane
You might have heard, Brisbane and huge parts of Queensland have gone under water in a catastrophic flood. To put that in perspective, this is an area of land the size of France and Germany combined affected by the floods. Brisbane, which is the capital of Queensland is the fastest growing city in Australia and rates third for size in the country. As you might imagine, some absolutely tragic events have been unfolding in this flood.
I had to leave work in a bit of a hurry as I work right in the CBD, which was a surreal feeling; but apart from that my own family has been safe from the flooding, although we have no power for the foreseeable future and have had to be adopted into someone else’s home.
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Quote of the Day: martial language vs eliminationist rhetoric
The problem is not martial language. The problem is the discussion of martial solutions, mentioned as actual policy options. That’s what “eliminationist rhetoric” means, you weaseling fucks.
ADDENDUM: Sarah Palin fans the heated rhetoric flames by playing the victim card and describing criticism as a “blood libel”. Seriously.
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Femmostroppo Reader January 12, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
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Abbott Watch: Scumbaggery alert
Sure, that’s the most important thing right now, Tony. Remind everybody about the terrible no good horrible very very bad NBN.
Ghoul.
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Can you offer emergency animal foster care in Brisbane area?
Several RSPCA animal shelters are flooded or about to be. I’m donating, since I’m too far away to foster.
Please only call RSPCA QLD hotlines if you have an animal emergency.
Email offers of help or donate through the website.
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Something wrong in the wiring.
There must have been a glitch in my wiring then, somehow I got the ‘male’ wiring and I am obviously an affront to nature or at least to motherhood. I don’t want to be a ‘house-wife’ and I think that is a pretty awful term with a nasty stereotype “what did you do all day?” attached and doesn’t reflect the reality of unpaid work whether you have children or not. ‘Working mother’ is a tautology, because it doesn’t matter whether you are paid or unpaid you are still working. Bloody hard I might add.
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Femmostroppo Reader January 10, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. Lots of reaction to the Arizona shootings. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
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How I minimise the online abuse I receive
So here is an assortment of technical tips & tricks whereby bloggers can cut down the volume and the repetition coming from this cyberbullying cadre of keyboard jockeys, making the harassment little more than a tiny hiss of background noise instead of an overwhelming flood of spite.
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Endangered Sunday: grey nurse shark
I’ve been in the water with a lot of sharks: leopard sharks, wobbegongs, Port Jackson sharks, grey and white tipped reef sharks and grey nurse sharks. What’s a scary thing I’ve encountered diving? That dreaded apex predatory homo sapiens. Homo sapiens is of course the big threat to today’s Endangered Sunday species, the grey nurse shark or carcharias taurus.
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