Out of town
I’m flying out tomorrow for a week in Tasmania, visiting my wife’s relatives. As such, I’ll probably be scarce on my blog and the internet generally during that time. Technorati tags: Tasmania, holidays
1 in 5 unfit to be parents
ONE in five Australian mums and dads is unfit to be a parent, according to child-health expert and former Australian of the Year Professor Fiona Stanley. She says they either lack the means or the life skills to raise children or cannot devote enough time to their kids because of excessive work commitments. She [...]
Hawks win
One of Australia’s great annual sporting events is the Australian Football League grand final. Today it was Hawthorn (the Hawks) versus Geelong (the Cats). Geelong were the premiers from last year and had dominated the competition again this year. They had won 42 of their last 44 games and were warm favourites today. Hawthorn won [...]
Responsible parenting
Michele Cossey from Pennsylvania in the US has a son who was being bullied. She dealt with it by buying him an armoury comprising an assault rifle fitted with a sniper’s scope, a 9mm handgun, a .22 rifle and gunpowder to make grenades. Her son, Dillon, who left school at 12 after being bullied over [...]
Mac Attack
A man was stabbed in Melbourne last night after an argument in a city McDonalds’ store. He apparently argued with with 2 men over their places in the queue, and after being served they followed him outside and attacked him. After the attack, the man walked across the road to Flinders St Station where he [...]
Which one is the most plastic?
Pamela Anderson was accompanied to a fashion show in London this week by a man in a white mask and gloves. Speculation was rife that it was Michael Jackson. Personally I doubt this – wrong sex and too old. Leaving aside the possibility of it being Michael Jackson, I ask you, which one of these [...]
Stats – 190k
Its been just over a month for the last 10k visits to my blog, slightly longer than the previous 10k. Most likely due to the sparseness of my posting in that time. Must do better! Now for my roundup of search terms that brought people to visit: Hermione nude – Hermione Grainger is popular (note [...]
Sure thing, Captain Underpants
Former NSW Police Minister, Matt Brown, denies he was drunk at the office party where his behaviour cost him his job this week. He said the party was marked by stupidity, not drunkenness. According to reports, Mr Brown had stripped down to his "very brief" underpants as he danced to loud "Oxford Street" techno music, [...]
Still here
I’m not talking just about me, but the world in general. As of now, the world has not been sucked into a black hole, created by the CERN experiment that commenced operations in Switzerland a few days ago. One of the fears held by some people was that the experiments using the Large Hadron Collider [...]
Foreign aid that they could have done without
Seems that Australia’s aid programs in East Timor have delivered the Timorese a nasty surprise in the form of the cane toad. The resilient and toxic toads, which have wreaked havoc across Australia, are believed to have hitched a ride on military vehicles.Since the arrival of cane toads arrival in Australia in the 1930s, they [...]
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