Feminist motherhood: the radical notion that children are people. [After reading this, and this.]
Politics
“These stunts are becoming tiresome…”
The protest will raise fresh questions over security at the Houses of Parliament. It is seen as a fundamental part of British democracy that people should be able to go there to lobby their MP. The public are allowed temporary… Read More ›
One of these things is not like the other ones: Australia’s “best and brightest”
From the 2020 summit site: – Professor Glyn Davis – Chair – Dr David Morgan – Future directions for the Australian economy – Mr Warwick Smith – Economic infrastructure, the digital economy and the future of our cities – Mr… Read More ›
Seed Vault under the Arctic frost
A “Doomsday vault” even: The project is intended to provide a failsafe against disaster so that if a seed collection is destroyed in its natural habitat there is an alternative source of supply. Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global… Read More ›
Breaking news: double standard alive and well
Watch the conservative pundits grease their spinning wheels to play up how Cindy McCain standing by John when allegations surface of an affair is a sign of twoo wuv and devotion and obviously totally different in every possible way to… Read More ›
“Just because you can see it, doesn’t mean it’s yours.”: the political misappropriation of personal pain
Regular readers may have noticed that I have a tendency to start serieses that I don’t finish. Well, I’ve finally got a second installment in 52 Acts of Political Correctness. The original 52something meme is here – do feel free… Read More ›
Ralph readers vote Julia Gillard deputy sex object of the year
[image source: the Age] Via the fabulous Ms Fits at Reasons You Will Hate Me, our Deputy PM Julia Gillard has been voted Australia’s Second Sexiest Woman – by readers of puerile supersoftcore fapmag Ralph. Gillard laughed it off. What… Read More ›
Another for the “beware delegating authority to thugs who like uniforms” file
A baby from Samoa who had been approved entry to the USA for heart surgery in Honolulu dies after being detained in the airport without an oxygen mask due to questions over his mother’s visa (the accompanying nurse and the… Read More ›
Howard’s End on Four Corners
Quite rivetting. The irony of them racing off to the ABC for the prestige after years of slagging them as partisan won’t escape anyone, I’m sure. Transcript and streaming video [Flash] [Windows Media Player] on the Four Corners site. There’s… Read More ›
The continuing Bushite erosion of rights and liberties
Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, op-eds for the New York Times: My policy as the chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantánamo was that evidence derived through waterboarding was off limits…. Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 