Two images from my current mail pile:
The cover of the current Medicus, from the Australian Medical Association (WA branch). The President’s Column is a wholehearted rejection of the national registration plan from COAG (Council of Australian Governments). Many pages of this volume have a black band on the top, giving the issue a memorial look.
Man, aged 18, charged with raping an 82 year old woman twice, allegedly attacking her as she was taking an early morning walk in a park. On Mother’s Day. He is most unlikely to have found her irresistably physically desirable: her vulnerability was most probably the key.
Why the newspaper calls a legal adult a youth I don’t know. Read more »
Technollama writes about a legal threat sent to a knitter by BBC Worldwide. Her crime? Putting a free knitting pattern for an Adipose critter on the internet:
I just remembered a conversation I had with a hairdresser last week. She was just about to do the Dramatic First Cut, as I was going from long hair to what they seem to call an “urchin” cut. (Proceeds going to Locks of Love.)
The hairdresser paused just before cutting, and checked, “Are you sure?”
“Yes,” I said, “Totally sure! Go ahead!”
She started to move the scissors, then paused again.
“Hon, is your husband ok with this?” Read more »
Women make better business leaders than men in all but two areas of management but men have the upper hand when it comes to focusing on the bottom line, according to an Australian survey released on Monday.
Data collected from 1,800 Australian female and male chief executive officers and managers found women exhibit more strategic drive, risk taking, people skills and innovation and equaled[sic] men in the area of emotional stability.
But men came out on top when it came to command and control of management operations and focusing on financial returns. Read more »
Ken Parish of Club Troppo has just introduced what he calls the Tropposphere. The Tropposphere is a Clayton’s feedreader of selected news, opinion, and analysis. Read more »
The first Ladies’ Handbook post is here. This instalment, “Syphilis” and “Personal Responsibility”, completes Chapter III: “Outside The Marriage Circle”. [Bold is mine.] Read more »
Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series: “Chapter III: Outside The Marriage Circle”. The original post is here. Read more »
Just a few highlights from the OB-GYN-L list, in a thread dated last October, “Birthplans and Expectations”. Most of the posts can be found here.
In this thread, OBs discuss amongst themselves the issue of women forming their own birth plans. (Quelle horreur!)
Easily panicked control-freak Steven Richman opened the proceedings: Read more »
Despite global public censure and an apparent lack of local electoral support, serial sexual harasser Troy Buswell today survived a spill motion in the party room, and continues to lead the Liberal Party of Western Australia.
The State election is due anywhere between 21 June 2008 and 2 May 2009. Anyone got an over/under on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend? Read more »
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