October 21, 2007
Dear John Howard and Kevin Rudd,
Please be advised that not all your voters are “working families”.
Increasing numbers of your constituents are single and or childfree, the most ever, in fact.
The way you two bang on about “working families” makes those of us who don’t fall into this category feel alienated and outside the scope of [...]
October 14, 2007
I was just reading a piece in The Age about Myf’s Waurhurst’s move to Triple M. Apparently, when Judith Lucy was doing breakfast on Sydney’s Today FM, she was “asked to produce “a light-hearted piece” about sexual assault, among other things.” Just another reason why my generic term for commercial radio in this country is [...]
October 8, 2007
I just joined Kiva.org, a website that enables you to lend money to people in developing countries who want to start up or expand their small businesses. The popularity of the site has just grown enormously in the past couple of months thanks to publicity on the Oprah show and in Bill Clinton’s new book. [...]
October 7, 2007
More evidence for the fragility of men’s sense of masculinity - this report says a man killed an ostrich in order to restore his “pride”.
In a nutshell, two men trespassed on an ostrich ranch with some female companions. One ostrich attacked one of the men and knocked him over, the other man received scrapes and [...]
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