Why Clinton’s Not (Necessarily) Crazy from Shakesville by Kate Harding: Kate sums up why Clinton isn’t giving up, why she won’t give up until the last legal avenues via the nomination convention are exhausted, and why this is not bad… Read More ›
Politics
Shame file: Haven Backpackers Resort Hostel, Alice Springs
Hostel facing lawsuit after telling Aboriginal women to leave: the 16 women and children had travelled 300 kilometres from Yuendumu to Alice Springs to train as lifeguards for their community’s new swimming pool. They checked into the Haven Backpackers resort, but a short time later the manager told them that guests already staying there had complained of being scared.
White flight
That’s today’s big story in the SMH: the growing trend over the last decade, in NSW especially, whereby white parents choose not to send their kids to the local public school, particularly for high school education, meaning the public schools… Read More ›
John McCain supports pseudoscience
This should hardly be surprising news, as he panders to just about every other kook group that could get him elected, but McCain recently came out and supported the repeatedly disproved “vaccines cause autism” crowd (or at least that a… Read More ›
Another Coalition pollie shilling his expertise overseas
At least this one‘s no longer an MP. (The comments on this story are better reading than Howard’s speech excerpts.)
Wednesday Quick Pic(k)s
Oohsome has a couple of groovy women’s-bits jewellery up at the moment. Uterus earrings Oestrogen necklace
Ms Fits asks:
Christ. Is there anyone currently involved in federal politics who hasn’t taken drugs? and creates the LOLPols to suit. Sweet (and maybe a little scary).
About time
Today’s Australian: A NATIONAL system of registration for doctors is being finalised by federal, state and territory governments, which will help prevent cases such as that of Jayant Patel in Queensland and the “Butcher of Bega” in NSW. Federal Health… Read More ›
A shallow exercise in self-congratulation, victim-blaming, and denial
Playing at Poverty at Resist Racism. A classic example of unexamined privilege in a “social experiment” about “starting from scratch” being held up as a morality tale against social security. This is a fantastic post: read it. *title from Kai’s… Read More ›
A bigot is dead
William F. Buckley, that is. I’m on the same page as most of the commentors over at Making Light, and this comment particularly summed it all up: I’m baffled by the backhanded complements of, “well, at least he was an… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 