Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, and all the crapola about Bill Henson and his nudie pics had died down, some hippie art mag decides to (a) piss the Prime Minister off and (b) bite the hand that Read more »
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, and all the crapola about Bill Henson and his nudie pics had died down, some hippie art mag decides to (a) piss the Prime Minister off and (b) bite the hand that Read more »
In comments on the Bill Henson post, Deus Ex Macintosh said:
Pr*n is a definition of taste rather than fact (see my previous comment). Nowt wrong with naked kids and in the bath is fine, just don’t flash the ones with their legs wide open in public. Thanks to digital photography it’s now easy to delete those shots.
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On the ABC children’s television website, there is a page for a show called Planet Slayer, involving a girl called Greena and her dog Schpinkee who save the world by defeating evil woodchippers, using “non-chemical cleaners” and being vegetarian. [I always wonder when something is billed as "non-chemical"...what IS it made of then? The space between electrons?] Read more »
Yes, it’s official now - I am expecting Baby No. 2. Well, most of you probably guessed from my post “Pregnancy is not an illness“. Read more »
"Parentonomics lays bare what most sleep-deprived parents only dream about.
Forget about inflation and unemployment. Here an economist uses game theory to tackle really important topics, such as toilet training and fussy eaters."
Melbourne Business School Professor Economics Joshua Gans new book will be out in six weeks.
It is deeply personal.
He reports that he is selling the first copy on
The other day I was reading Ursula Le Guin’s novel, The Left Hand of Darkness. I hadn’t read it for 10 or so years; I had forgotten what an excellent book it was. Read more »
The US told the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child that 2,500 youths under the age of 18 had been held, almost all in Iraq, for periods of up to a year or more, as "enemy combatants" in the war on terror and continues to hold around 500 youths. Read more »
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