Babalon-93 has suggested that I expand my previous post, “Words Mean Stuff: thorny language”, into a Fifty Two Something series: 52 Something Choose something you would really like to do on a weekly basis and commit to sharing it with… Read More ›
Month: January 2008
Scrotes Oot F’t’ Lads!
[image source] Latest message from the pink corporate machine: Go hairless and wave your breasts for booby cancer! Booby Wall Canada is a project in which women can upload pictures of their breasts for the cause. No, I can’t figure… Read More ›
Parenting while atheist: Discovering the questions, and religious education in schools
[image source] Recently, my kid asked “Who MADE the seeds?” The vexed issue of spirituality and parenting is discussed in all parenting forums. Which religion, if any, do you “teach” a child? Do you teach religion as doctrine, or comparative… Read More ›
Can’t stand his blog commentors
(at least not the ones with the flying monkey attitude) but I don’t wish the man himself any personal harm. Good luck with the surgery, Tim.
Which way? I didn’t quite catch that, Boys-Club Buswell. Repeat, please? Which way should we go?
When’s the earliest the WA Labor Party can call an election? I doubt the Libs are likely to have their act together any time soon. Troy Buswell, former candidate for the leadership of the Western Australian Liberal Party, has touched… Read More ›
Cool photo
Literally. via a Terry on a private mailing list
The speciallest snowflake in all Australia
Party-thrower and all-round knob Corey Delaney speaks out on Current Affair. The full ACA report is available here, but here’s the key interview with Corey himself. Before watching, read “But it’s OK – they’re white!” at Road to Surfdom. Transcript… Read More ›
Skyrocketing caesarian section rate means placenta accreta is no longer just the fine print
Finally, the mainstream media has come out with the beginnings of a critical investigation into birthing in Australia. The Herald today published “Fatal flaws in steady rise of caesareans”. Apparently some Sydney obstetricians have opened a bleary eye and started… Read More ›
Refusing to be ashamed
Audrey Apple, in her non-alliterative RL persona, has written an online column for Adelaide’s Sunday Mail where she freely discusses her experience of two abortions as simple relief, and that she refuses to be shamed for not feeling guilt or… Read More ›
Bernadette McMenamin trolling The Australian on internet filtering?
Did you catch the article “Filters needed to battle child porn”, by Bernadette McMenamin of Child Wise? The one in which she wrote stuff like this: It is beyond belief that some representatives of the Australian internet service provider industry… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 