It’s good to see Stephen Conroy finally face the facts: his filter proposal was about as clever as equipping a blue whale to pursue a vulture.
law & order
The law locks up the man who steals the goose from the common, but leaves the greater criminal loose who steals the common from the goose – Australian convict saying
Today in rape culture: nobody wanted to think it of funny old Jimmy
It was right out there, in plain view, and nobody wanted to see.
A picture paints a thousand words
Who decides what 1000 words are told by a picture?
Parking near intersections in NSW
10 metres, you irresponsible gits.
Yes, this is a crotchety rant while wearing my curmudgeon pants.
Detroit tests 150 rape kits from backlog of 11,000: finds 21 serial rapists (one also a murderer)
Twenty of the 21 serial rapists were identified from the first 153 rape kits officially tested for DNA and entered into the national database known as CODIS, or the Combined DNA Index System, this summer. In other words, these 20 men had been involved in at least one other rape case, according to the database.
Media Circus: Island prisons
Disgusted. As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.
Sunday Singalong: Nina Simone
I grew up listening to Nina Simone and I love her music. Whenever I talk about Nina Simone I am obliged to tell you my anecdote because it is the coolest moment of my life and it happened when I… Read More ›
Unleashed Guns: One More Massacre
Those who fight for the right of [anyone] to have as many people-killing weapons as they want share moral responsibility for what happened last night—as they will when it happens again. And it will happen again.
What the hell, Sweden?
Transphobic court tosses out rape charge because defendant’s intent ‘was to rape a woman’
I missed this back in 1995: quick facts about that McDonalds Coffee lawsuit
It would be nice to think that there weren’t still ignorant twerps repeating the idea that the lawsuit was unfounded/frivolous/a grave miscarriage against a poor defenceless megacorporation/harrumph/wharrgarbl, but sadly there still are.
Hoyden About Town 