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 mean­ing to show…

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. Yes, the…

[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…

[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 centimeters.…

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 on the read­ers for the…

Inter­est­ing. Watched Chan­nel 9’s pack­age of tsunami mourn­ing in order to test theory that visual foot­age tweaks emo­tional trig­gers in a way that writ­ten stor­ies did not. Admit­tedly, anyone who knows Chan­nel 9’s brand of emo­tional manip­u­la­tion would know that this is…

Per­sonal evol­u­tion on my hol­i­day does not seem to have magic­ally cre­ated a world in which evil does not occur. Why is that? Anyway, fol­low­ing art­broken’s excel­lent ana­lyses of the vari­ous depress­ing and sur­pris­ing events of the last few days (Habib being released…

So, it’s a little over a week until my birth­day and fiz­it’s birth­day (Janu­ary 22). (kitling is Janu­ary 23, for those who’ve for­got­ten this tri­um­vir­ate of delect­able dev­ilry). Some of you prob­ably know that I’m a weird polit­ical eater: I’m not a veget­arian, I’m not…

There are times when I have too much to say. This year I have hardly writ­ten a thing… just exper­i­enced it. This is a Good Thing. I have had my Kahuna mas­sages, I have thrown myself out of a plane, I have caught up with some of my oldest and dearest friends and met…

Hmmm… sleazemon­key thought he’d lost his tarot deck at the ritual… panic ensued. Andreas, our new friend, sug­ges­ted we go back to the park to check. It was still there. It had spent the entire night in the circle of 13 trees. Magical. As hyper­people said, the…

It’s almost time to farewell the sun as we jour­ney away from it again. We wish for magic and mir­acles in this time, for change and sta­bil­ity all at once that we will con­tinue to turn and move through space and time as we do, that every day will be new and fresh and…

I have an image of myself as an intel­lec­tual person, but I haven’t been very, recently. I read blogs by people like Nik and I feel some­what ashamed of my lack of engage­ment and ana­lysis with the world at the moment. So what’s going on? For a few months, it was that I…

Thank you, fizit, for organ­ising our little jaunt to NICA’s Inferno. That was fant­astic! Dante des­cends into hell which is inhab­ited by jug­glers with impec­cable pecs and las­ci­vi­ous lats wear­ing red and black and leap­ing about in the ver­mil­lion light. Dev­il­ish Betty…