An article in Thursday’s The Australian caught my eye regarding Labor backbencher Craig Emerson proposing mandatory school-based education until the completion of Year 12 for all students. The ideal of an extended education so school-leavers have more skills and knowledge… Read More ›
Year: 2006
Pro-sex, anti-misogyny:where’s the non-vile porn?
Everybody who wrote about porn over the last few decades has noted that the most popular porn is becoming more and more violently misogynistic and cruel, overwhelmingly portraying coercive, abusive sex. This is a trend which seems to not only… Read More ›
Friday garden blogging
Lorikeets in the pohutakawa last week
Just my Quasimodo costume
I have rediscovered The Editors, courtesy of Lauren. The Editors revealed the true transcript of the Foley IMs. I thank The Editors for this generous public service. [Link: The MSM’s Foley transcript]
Even death won’t save you from James Blunt
From a list of the UK’s most popular funeral songs: 1 – “Goodbye My Lover” – James Blunt 2 – “Angels” – Robbie Williams 3 – “I’ve Had The Time Of My Life” – Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley. 4… Read More ›
Grogblog alert
Mark your diaries etc: next Thursday evening (October 12th) there will be a blogmeet in honour of the lovely and talented Kate (of Moment to Moment and Larvatus Prodeo) visiting Sydney. She’s only in town for a few days, and… Read More ›
Aversions
I was reminded tonight, as I often am when we watch cable TV, that my husband cannot stand Tara Moss. Or the blonde Linda Robson on British sitcom Birds of a Feather. He’s not into Julia Roberts, either. Simply cannot… Read More ›
Dangerous Deppths
OK OK, I know that’s an atrocious pun. But that’s an absolutely gorgeous art shot of dear Johnny, and I needed some cheering up after this week in politics.
So, it has come to this
There’s been a sense of dispiritedness in most of my favourite blogs this past weekend. I’ve shared it. Despite several times in the past few years pointing out signs of incipient fascist tendencies in the Bush administration, I always wondered… Read More ›
What I’m not reading, either
Tim Sterne put a loverly post up at Sarsaparilla a while ago about the stacks of unread reproaches surrounding him as he struggles through his days. I wot of what he wrote. The main unread reproach for me is Patrick… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 