The mighty Fixateur D. Perspective! image from here Are you finding that relentless spin is making you dizzy and confused? Is the obsessive nit-picking over teeny-tiny reportage discrepancies by conspiracy theorists making you nauseous? Let Fixateur guide you through the… Read More ›
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Transparency in Pregnancy Counselling
From the background section of the Senate Committee Minority Report: The aim of Transparent Advertising and Notification of Pregnancy Counselling Services Bill 2005 (to be referred to as ‘the bill’ from here on after) is to regulate pregnancy counselling services… Read More ›
More pimping the idiot box
Ricky Gervais’ new series, Extras, starts tonight on ABC at 9pm in the slot where Absolute Power just ended its season. If they had to take my Stephen Fry away, at least I get Ricky in his place (talk about… Read More ›
CRACKER!!!!
This Fri night on Channel 7, Robbie Coltrane is back as Fitz after 10 years, and Jimmy McGovern is back writing it after 12 years. For some reason, Australia’s getting the world premiere. Set those VCRs, everybody.
A beer bottle full of terror
The Poor Man Institute (for Freedom and Democracy and a Pony) spent last Friday Getting Serious About Terror. There. Now I’ve articulated a strategy every bit as coherent and likely to succeed as the Bush-Cheney-Sullivan strategy. Well done that man…. Read More ›
Links post: authoritarian childrearing and exodus
There’s some very interesting writing on the religious-authoritarian worldview around at the moment. Authoritarian childrearing practices such as those recommended and followed by many religious groups are an ancient tradition, and in certain societies add materially to survival prospects. But… Read More ›
Don’t come near me
I hab a cod. Sneezing, sniffling, snoring, sinus-achy misery. I can’t smell anything in my garden or taste anything on my plate. I hate the world. If you come near me I’ll give it to you too, just so that… Read More ›
Short and sweet
I’ve a long post up at Larvatus Prodeo today, and I’m composing a response to Morgspace’s 10 Questions about Books meme with which he has tagged me, so that’s preoccupying me somewhat. I just have to mention how my jaw… Read More ›
Unbelievable
A WA teenager with leukaemia has been denied the disability pension on the grounds that leukaemia is not a permanent disability. Right. A condition requiring years of treatment to get better, and which in the meantime means he needs help… Read More ›
Well, give me a T-shirt and call me Crunk
but Joe Francis, the guy who came up with “Girls Gone Wild”, is revealed as a sordid, sexist jerk who gets off on harassing women who don’t play along with his script. And worse. Joe Francis, the founder of the… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 