Fistful of articles

US Govt offi­cial who bought all three of her degrees in one year from an online Uni run by a dodgy church. And she’s not the only one. Inter­est­ing art­icle from the New York Times about the Kinsey movie and the con­ser­vat­ive back­lash (the one I’ve been...

Birthday reminder

I’ve booked for 30 people at the Flamin’ Bull (121 Lygon St, Carlton) for tomor­row night, so if you’ve RSVPed to either myself or fizit you’re covered. If not, please RSVP now and I’ll add you in. We’ll be upstairs. A few quick notes: I’ve booked for 7pm....

I love a backlash country…

[from Norrie May Welby] SAGE (Sex and Gender Edu­ca­tion) is cam­paign­ing against the refusal of ser­vice to trans­sexual women by the pub­licly funded ser­vices of Mis­sion Aus­tralia. A peti­tion is repro­duced below, and you can sign on to it at...

That was a doozy

[ganked from fayr] NASA sci­ent­ists study­ing the Indone­sian earth­quake of Dec. 26, 2004, have cal­cu­lated that it slightly changed our plan­et’s shape and also reduced the length of the day by 3 micro­seconds and shif­ted the North Pole by sev­eral...

It’s just a figure of speech!

No, actu­ally, it’s not. It’s prob­ably an ‘idiom’ as a figure of speech is actu­ally a rhet­or­ical tool. I have no idea how many of my stu­dents from last year have kept read­ing my journal, but they may be inter­ested to know that I’m busily work­ing...