This argument is so bizarre it’s not even wrong: it’s wrong’s cousin who’s never been the same since that nasty accident with the Klein bottle.
sheer incompetence
Sydney has finally joined the club
The club of cities where one sees people casually commuting to work on their Segways, of course. I don’t think it had anything to do with APEC or President Bush being in town: after all, he certainly seemed to be… Read More ›
PinkSquee EvPsych Asshattery du jour
[image yoinked from jZepp] Would someone just erase gender-evpsychs from the planet, please? This Beeb-reported British “study” published in Current Biology has declared that women really do prefer pink – it’s in their genes. Apparently by including Chinese volunteers as… Read More ›
Another Mike Adams column, another day where the rest of the world wonders WTF he’s smoking
Mike Adams is a professional American conservative – he writes columns on Townhall.com and writes books about being oh so lonely as a conservative college professor fighting the Evil Liberal Agenda (TM). I have regularly read his name mentioned in… Read More ›
Duh du jour: A cautionary tale.
[scene: a very quiet room.] Me: [thinks] Gosh, that’s a lot of drive noise. And it’s constant, not fluctuating. Whatever could be hammering the hard drive? * checks Activity Monitor, nothing unusual Me: [thinks] Is it the new external drive?… Read More ›
Public health stupidity and Friday night grumpiness.
So the AMA has put out an alarming influenza warning tonight. ABC News reports: “AMA urges flu sufferers to seek medical attention”. On a Friday night. Just like five weeks ago, when the WA Health Department put out a public… Read More ›
Flimsy. Wimpy. Weak. The Parliamentary Breastfeeding Inquiry Report.
The discourse around breastfeeding, both public and private tends to flit between two summations: “Mothers should breastfeed” and “Mothers shouldn’t feel guilty”. I’m guessing that regular Hoydenistas have spotted the framing problem already: “Mothers should”. (If you’re a mother, are… Read More ›
Nassssty sysssssstem, we hatesssss it we does
Why on earth would a telco have an online registration system for prepaid SIM cards which doesn’t accept street numbers with letters (eg 29B) or hyphenated surnames? And why on earth would a telco with such a bizarre system then… Read More ›
More heat than light on Haneef: where’s the transcripts then?
Crossposted on Larvatus Prodeo, where each of the previous Haneef threads has generated hundreds of comments. Much was made yesterday of claims that Indian police believe that there are links between Haneef and extreme jihadists. To kick this thread off,… Read More ›
Today’s talkback army talking points
In response to Dr Mohammed Haneef’s interview last night on 60 minutes: Isn’t it better to be safe than sorry? He was only inconvenienced for 4 weeks. Everyone makes mistakes, and it’s all been corrected now. Sure he was incarcerated,… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 