There are two people with disabilities in Big Brother UK this year. Read more »
There are two people with disabilities in Big Brother UK this year. Read more »
Yet another forced-birther group:
If you were born after 1972, we challenge you to consider yourself a Survivor of the Abortion Holocaust. 1/3 of your generation has been killed by abortion in America!
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Boy taunted after Seven’s Down syndrome gaffe
Channel Seven is facing legal action and an advertising boycott after popular show All Saints implied that Down syndrome is caused by incest.
Down syndrome groups say that at least one child has already been subject to schoolyard taunts because of the “preposterous” storyline.
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The Age has an article quoting the mother of the girl whose image is the most widely disseminated with respect to the investigation of complaints against artist Bill Henson’s nude studies of adolescents. Read more »
The title is quoted from this ABC Online article with respect to the special regulations in force from yesterday until the end of this month that relate to the behaviour of onlookers and protesters to the Roman Catholic World Youth Day event, which takes place over 5 days (July 15-20) later this month. Read more »
Maybe it’s only because I’m full of the flu and curmudgeonly as hell today, but the inevitable angel-washing after the latest celebrity cancer death is pissing me off. She was, apparently, brave (i.e. uncomplaining). Read more »
This may well become a semi-regular feature, as this way at least sends some linkjuice to the bloggers who have taken the time to document various gitting about that I find too angrifying to blog about in detail: Read more »
Author Note: The original title of this post was “Do the right thing, Mainstream Media: disguise the faces of the minors in your reproductions of the Henson images NOW”, deliberately imperative because I wanted it to grab attention in people’s feed readers and hopefully provoke an immediate reaction. That has happened, the faces are now being pixellated in the mass media, so I’m changing the title to something that sounds a bit more like “me” speaking. Read more »
having been sucked into the vortex of a particularly poor example while I work on other things at the ‘puter.
I tell you what, if Our Hero doesn’t pick up just one more Handy Weapon Sitting Right There Next To The Latest Vanquished Foe, I will tut at the screen most severely. Read more »
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