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  • Owie owie ow

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    I’m awake at 5:45am because of two consequences of following the unwritten law of Sydney: thou shalt spend Australia Day beside the harbour. The corollary laws? First the schedule confusion law: thou shalt forget to put thy bins out when… Read More ›

  • Relinquishment, Remorse and failed Redemption

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    I wish to recommend to you a deeply moving journal of a relinquishing mother as she writes of her experiences and emotions through the years following the adoption of her first-born. Her eloquent pain is so profound that I hesitate… Read More ›

  • Nikongate, complete with smoking lens(*)

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    Anonymous Lefty has an excellent post on the tabloid character assassination of Mark Latham over his contretemps with a press photographer following him around when he was with his children. As Armaniac comments: “…like we all wouldn’t get the impulse… Read More ›

  • Blog for Choice

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    Yesterday was the 33rd anniversary of the court decision that made abortion legal for women in the USA – Roe v. Wade. With the coalition of the religious right with the fiscal conservatives of the Republican party having reached a… Read More ›

  • Friday wine blogging

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    So we were having steak, and my Mr Tog said “Big Boofy Red?” and I said “Mmmmmmmmm.” He ended up grabbing a Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 from the cellar. Oh yeah. Lingering berry flavours on the mid-palate, smoky after-taste,… Read More ›

  • Fighting the urge to hurl…

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    … a brick through the window of every store carrying these dolls, the ads for which have only just crossed my radar. Yup, a major toy manufacturer is now officially sexualising infant girls.Apparently some folks in the US have been… Read More ›

  • Red Pill or Blue Pill?

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    Missing the good old days of adolescent existential angst? “Researchers at UCLA found that cells in the human anterior cingulate, which normally fire when you poke the patient with a needle (“pain neurons”), will also fire when the patient watches… Read More ›

  • So, when Bushco really fucks up, I’m good

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    Could I survive the apocalypse? No worries. The True SurvivorYou scored 65 % ass-kickingness, 86% leadership, and 88% scavenging ability! Congratulations, you scored the highest in all three categories: ass-kickingness, leadership, and scavenging skills. You are definitely going to survive… Read More ›

  • James Frey’s fictional non-fiction – more than just a personal flaw

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    It is very frightening that many, perhaps millions of people’s understanding of addiction has been grossly perverted by a fraudulent book that started its life as an overt work of fiction. So says my old mate Kev, over at Sufficient… Read More ›

  • Apparently, laughing at them sometimes works

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    In response to me and everybody’s dog mocking them yesterday: No Brokeback blackoutJanuary 13, 2006 – 10:49AM Roadshow Films denies claims that it will not be releasing Brokeback Mountain in regional areas of Far North Queensland. Goodness me, mockery on… Read More ›