Names can never hurt me?
Snapped in traffic and gone ape on another driver? No worries, just tell the judge that the nasty nasty driver called you a bad name. A DARWIN man who grabbed a woman in a road rage attack has been let off because he thought he had been racially taunted. [...]But Mr Daye was cleared of [...]
Full Story »Configurator: superhero or supervillain name?
I ask only because, having seen a couple of the latest models cruising Sydney streets in the last weeks, I just discovered that Bentley Motors offers a Configurator service, so one can have one’s Bentley configured precisely to conform to one’s exquisitely refined taste in muscle cars. I could never financially/morally/ecologically justify owning such an [...]
Full Story »Yes, we do need feminism
Some people might be wondering about the reality of the dangers facing the Sierra Leone female athletes who are seeking asylum in Australia, fearing female genital mutilation and/or murder if they return home. (The male athletes have different fears for their safety, based on continuing violence in Sierra Leone involving brutal street deaths of anyone [...]
Full Story »Boycotting the Devine boo-hiss M.
Fuck Miranda Devine. I will no longer read or link to any column the shrill harpy writes. To understand why she has finally reached my fuck-off threshold, read this smack-down of her recent column on Cyclone Larry victims.(hat-tip to Crikey!) For any brave bloggers willing to flense their eyeballs reading Devine and excoriating her idiocies, [...]
Full Story »Anti-choice spin on parental consent laws
Recently I became aware of a case from 1988 where a young woman in the USA died because parental consent laws in her state meant that she couldn’t get a safe legal abortion from Planned Parenthood early in her pregnancy as she wished to do. That’s a fairly bald statement, and a controversial one. There [...]
Full Story »SF Sunday
An interesting review of a movie, and some of its American viewers. I obviously will have to go see V for Vendetta, and track down the graphic novel too. So it has come to our attention that some people are not able to get past the “politics” of V and enjoy the flick. Which is [...]
Full Story »Catherine, Emma, Purdey and feminism
I love the Avengers, along with other super-stylish British action shows from my childhood such as The Prisoner, The Saint and their low-rent cousin Dr Who. And one of the things I liked on these shows is that the female characters usually had their own goals which weren’t just getting married: they were the men’s [...]
Full Story »Friday night contentment blogging
Mr Tog and the Tigling are off at the rugby watching big strong guys dressed in blue like this try and get a ball up and down the field more often than big strong guys dressed in some other colour. The Togster and I watched some of the Simpsons marathon and checked out the latest [...]
Full Story »You must be smarter than this lump of inanimate electronics to play statistician when you’re a journalist
I have a feeling I won’t be the only Ozblogger mocking a Crikey! journalist for truly shocking innumeracy, but I might just be the earliest: what’s wrong with the table below, which was appended to a Crikey! article entitled “Putting the Aussie medal whitewash in context” ? Scroll down and look at Michael Newhouse’s table [...]
Full Story »I could have done without this
Some readers with whom I’ve been invisible friends for some time know that my son, the Togster, has Asperger’s Syndrome, and thus has special educational needs. Like many Aspies, he is fairly high IQ and quite accomplished with maths/science/tech subjects, but has problems with socialisation and subjects requiring more abstraction and generalising/synthesis skills. There are [...]
Full Story »Simple arguments
Two posts about gaping policy divides in Western society: Firstly Chris Clarke of Creek Running North: “some things are priceless, and the economy thus finds them worthless. “ Read the whole thing, which provoked the following comment from John from Uconn: “If only we taught children that the invisible hand wanted to choke them to [...]
Full Story »Dawn does not heart Kevin
KTK of bioethics blog Sufficient Scruples has been banned from commenting at the anti-choice fundegelical hysterics forum Dawn Patrol , written by the only journalist ever to be fired from a Murdoch paper for ethics violations, Dawn Eden. Kevin explains how this devastating mark of his social deviance was gained here. *sniff* To think I [...]
Full Story »Babies, black dogs and benefits
Well now, isn’t this study an interesting bookend with the New Zealand study that caused a press stir a few months ago when it showed a correlation between mental illness and abortion of pregnancy. An Australian study has shown that single mothers have much worse mental health than other women. “Regardless of whether they had [...]
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