First, a news snippet: The Age: Indigenous land takeover angers NT govt NT Attorney-General [and Member for Nhulunbuy] Syd Stirling said Aboriginal communities territory-wide were angry, confused and talking of legal action. He said the territory government was seeking advice… Read More ›
Year: 2007
I’m baaaaack!
And most remiss in not thanking the delicious Guest Hoyden’s for helping Lauredhel keep the blog ticking over in my absence until after I’d made two posts today. Thank you, thank you bluemilk, Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony, sajbrfem… Read More ›
Work/Life/Family Balance in NSW
On a day dominated by the media attempting to beat up a story about NSW Premier Morris Iemma taking time off to spend the school holidays with his young children, another story got hardly any traction. Both stories tie into… Read More ›
Today’s bit of fun: medical marvels
Check out this Worth-1000 competition to produce a Photoshopped medical anomaly. Most of them are a bit of fun, but I prefer the more subtle ones: Have a poke around Worth 1000 while you’re there. Check out Archaeological Anomalies, Alternate… Read More ›
Imagine, I so nearly missed this sight
Published while I was away on hols: why oh why couldn’t the SuperHornet pilot have strapped him in “for more realism, Sir” and told him to push the ejector seat button (“this starts the mighty engine, Sir”)? Image Credit: The… Read More ›
They’re creepy and they’re … creepy. Three datapoints.
Via IBTP, buried in a long stoush about bigotry against children and whether under-18s are subhuman: To passer-by, crying child’s ear-piercing rings of abuse. Marilyn Johnson thought so when she heard a girl’s screams in a Wichita Wal-Mart on Sunday… Read More ›
“Only stupid women are breeding” – academipanic from New Zealand
Jim Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at a New Zealand university, has pronounced himself the arbiter of which women should be allowed to breed. Note that fathers are completely invisible in his genetic-decay worldview, what could just as easily… Read More ›
Lame jokes
I’m looking at you, Pavlov… Once there was a boy who had no arms, legs, or torso. In other words – he was a head. He used to roll to school, and roll home again. He was teased unmercifully, and… Read More ›
Image du jour: Please Leave Jackboots Here
From the ABC News, Police support Indigenous permit status quo: Reactions of indigenous people and local police to the Howard government’s plan to steal Aboriginal land and open it to “public scrutiny”. Criticism in this article centres around two issues…. Read More ›
Stunning News
Guest posted by Kate Harding Item: School childhood obesity programs are failing, experts say Any person looking at the published literature about these programs would have to conclude that they are generally not working, said Tom Baranowski, a pediatrics professor… Read More ›
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