Year: 2010

Finally

Burma’s military rulers have released the country’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest

Otterday! And Open Thread.

Today’s honorary otter is a sea lion! This little pup was born in the Adelaide Zoo over Halloween.

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

Belated hooray for the High Court

About time that we had more accountability and transparency about our treatment of asylum seekers who are processed offshore; successive governments have been keeping them conveniently out of voters’ sight for far too long now, which allows all sorts of wild claims to be made about these mythical beings.

Of course, some voters prefer it that way, but I don’t think much of those voters’ worldview on good citizenship.

In Things To Make You Hate The World

Following major publicity over Charlie Sheen’s latest hospitalisation following yet another “meltdown” that resulted in a cowering woman, the ratings for his craptacular sausage-com have gone up.