Laptops, popes and activism

Still no new laptop. Old laptop now offi­cially dead, dead, dead. Only read­ing mail and LJ at work so expect delays. Eeep, the new pope was a member of the Hitler Youth. He’s still a con­ser­vat­ive creep. The world is gonna be very yucky. But the...

Essential reading

The Age finally gets access to asylum seekers in Nauru and tells their stor­ies. If you still don’t care about refugee issues after read­ing this, there’s some­thing wrong. Whatever happened to human com­pas­sion and dignity?