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Hijacked by the badge!
In which Young Geoffrey is threatened with implicit consequences by the police and finds himself at the wheel with an octet of loud and inebriated police-women filling his vehicle.
( The women were loudly good-natured and reeking of beer as they clambered into my van, eight of them finding space in a vehicle meant for no more than seven passengers. With a conflicted good cheer of my own, I set the beast in gear and stepped gently on the accelerator, cautiously making my way out of the tight loading area and onto the mean Ottawa streets ... ) -
The Sarah Jane Adventures, series 4: Lost in Time
Where have all the white men gone?
This week's episodes of my favourite children's adventure program might have been the best of the year so far. More interestingly, to me at least, is just how far outside of the standard adventure paradigm The Sarah Jane Adventures has ventured, without any great on-screen fuss or muss.
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More Thoughts On Men, Women and Violence
Back in the '70s, when I was 10 or 11 years old, my mother bought into the then-fashionable belief that television was "the plug-in drug", a Destructive Influence that threatened the moral fibre of children exposed to the sex and (especially, to my mother's mind) the violence on offer via the glass teat ( Read more... )
