Over the last few years, the idea of treating the atmosphere with the same level of care as we (now) treat our neighborhoods and our waterways has become an ideological football.
media
old, new, social, global, cross platforms etc.
And good riddance
UK Sunday tabloid News of the World is shutting down after the latest phone-hacking revelations.
Just say no to uninformed opinions and fat phobia.
Don’t let lack of qualifications in the field get in the way of some good old fashioned fat phobia!
Today in petty irritations
I choose my radio station in the car for its mix of mostly music and very few ads. Which is why it was most irritating, in the short space of listening time involved in the train station run, to hear today’s host…
Pink vs the paparazzi: photostalkers and children’s privacy
So when you see our middle fingers up in all of our pictures, now you know the motivation. It’s all we can do to stop images of a newborn baby from being printed without our consent. Can you imagine a world where they would blur out our middle finger to protect a “consumer” over blurring out an innocent child to protect their integrity and privacy?
The Grauniad on Bachmann et al
Bachmann, 55, believes her country needs to be reclaimed from a socialist president, a gay mafia, and treasonous liberals, responsible for, among other things, robbing Americans of the freedom to choose their light bulbs.
Quickhit: Gay Girl in Damascus Amina Arraf is a pseudonym for American Tom MacMaster
Now the regime is going to be able to cast everything MacMaster wrote about what was happening in Syria as pure fiction, and real people who trusted Arraf have been endangered.
Insurance Fail
Mum not a good enough title for you? Nevermind, this insurance company will look after you.
What happens when the unscrupulous tell lies about scientists?
Scientists get death threats, that what happens.
So what else happened in Parliament yesterday?
The media’s way too excited about the ‘meow’ incident to tell us, so Grog’s Gamut gave a summary of the day’s proceedings. Barnaby Joyce put in his regular carrying on like a pork chop time in the Senate Estimates Committee. And did you notice that despite the drop in GDP, the Terms of Trade figures are looking really good?
Hoyden About Town 