Guns and snakes don’t mix
It is often said that most people who fall victim to snakes get bitten while attempting to kill them. Here’s another case where the snake beat someone trying to hunt it. A woman was shot dead by her husband in Queensland this week while trying to flush out a brown snake that was hiding in [...]
Why steal Zimbabwe?
I heard Robert Mugabe on CNN tonight, going on about the British, accusing them of trying to steal his country, or in his own words: “down with the British, down with the thieves who want to steal our country”. My immediate reaction to this is why would anyone bother to steal Zimbabwe ….its such a [...]
Travelling
I’m off tomorrow morning for a(n almost) 2 week trip to here: then here: and finally here: Its for work, but I will get a little sightseeing in each place. I’ll be fairly scarce on my blog for the next couple of weeks, with work, sightseeing, eating and drinking. Technorati tags: travel, work, Beijing, China, [...]
Adultery
Loved this song 21 years ago, and its got a great video, which has kindly been uploaded to Youtube. Do Re Mi were an excellent band, featuring the always delightful Deborah Conway. Technorati tags: Do Re Mi, music, Deborah Conway, Adultery
140k: time for another stats roundup
Haven’t done this for a while now, in fact since I moved over from Blogger to WordPress. Today marked the 140,000th visit to my blog since I started it 2 and a half years ago. Now for a look at some of the searches that brought people here: vagina is very popular – in fact [...]
May the NRA follow him
Charlton Heston died yesterday. I wish no disrespect to him or his family but he was an advocate for a cause I find deeply offensive. So, may the National Rifle Association die with him, and with it the indecently powerful gun lobby in America and the gun culture there. Technorati tags: Charlton Heston, National Rifle [...]
Gunfight at the OK Corral
Well maybe not quite, but how about machetes and baseball bats at Merrylands High School. Five teenage boys, armed with baseball bats and machetes, paid a visit to the school yesterday morning during assembly, and went on a rampage that left a teacher and two students in hospital and 16 others injured plus thousands of [...]
I am just so organised …..???
I was supposed to be flying to Sydney in the morning, nothing unusual, do it regularly. Got a phone call Thursday. Change of plans. Can I change it to Thursday instead of Monday? Sure, no problems. Suits me better in fact. So Friday morning, I go looking for the booking number so I can get [...]
How low can a person go?
Try this for the champion of low acts that I’ve heard of in recent times. Raouf Philopos was staying overnight at Westmead Childrens’ Hospital in Sydney, having been given permission by hospital staff to sit in a chair for the night to be with his 6 year old son, who was recovering from a severe [...]
Swimming Australia acting like a nanny to swim team
Seems that Swimming Australia has told members of the Australian swimming team for the Beijing Olympics to tone down some of their Facebook pages. Swimming Australia media director Ian Hanson confirmed the organisation had taken the step in consultation with the Beijing-bound Dolphins team management. “It’s something we had counselled them on in the past [...]
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