The March, 2007 edition of Australian Family Physician magazine is a special issue on gynaecological malignancies. I’m boggling at this cover illustration. What do you think? (click for larger version)
Month: July 2007
ACT parliament improves its mother-friendliness
[Image credit: The Age, “Charlotte Makes a Meal of Question Time“] Cheers to the ACT parliament for becoming the first parliament in Australia to get Australian Breastfeeding Association accreditation as a breastfeeding-friendly workplace, as reported in IBN News. The ABA… Read More ›
Two sides of the same coin
Great comment in a thread over at Feministe about yet another book calling for more sexual modesty (from women, of course): This seems like a great time to focus on re-directing the debate away from regarding “raunch culture’ and “modesty’… Read More ›
“God didn’t make any junk”
So said Tammy Faye Messner (once Tammy Faye Bakker) once when asked her opinion on homosexuals and whether they could be part of the Christian family. She died yesterday of cancer aged 65. I’m not a fan of televangelists as… Read More ›
Cymru!
Three Welsh inventors are touting their Greenbox system that would replace car exhaust systems with an emissions capture system. It uses algae to absorb the emitted gases and hold them inertly so that the boxes can be easily transported for… Read More ›
Foregrounding the object redux: rape research from the UK
A while back, I wrote about the effects of the passive voice and agent deletion in media reporting of sexual violence, in Passive Aggression: Foregrounding the Object. An article in the UK Telegraph hit me between the eyes today: Four… Read More ›
Our own desert places
I have succumbed to the July lurgy, so today: an invitation to join me in Stuff I Have Been Reading. Don’t miss the stuff below the cut. Jane Simpson is amazing. Aboriginal Poets We are tired of the benches, our… Read More ›
Proof positive that most Americans have hardly noticed our Prime Minister’s world-class presidential arselicking displays
He’s not mentioned on the Boston Phoenix‘s annual list of the 100 Unsexiest Men. It is a very US-centric list: there’s a mere sprinkling of foreigners, the only “Australian” who is mentioned is Mel Gibson, and I hadn’t heard of… Read More ›
And we thought Haneef had it bad
At least he was charged with a crime in front of a judge before the executive arm got involved. Since the latest Presidential Executive Order has been signed and sent to Congress, someone in Haneef’s situation in the USA could… Read More ›
Friday fun: A day at home
The lad’s not quite 100% today, and we’ve kicked back at home with some movies, popcorn, and a box of drawing tools. He decided to draw a pageful of “monsters”. And here it is. Caption by the lad: “A scary… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 