I stayed up late last night watching Buffy cause I was looking forward to a good sleep in and relaxing day of doing not very much today. I had a very odd dream - not a nightmare exactly but very strong plot and dark mood. I think it came out of reading I was doing yesterday for 2011. Must go see just which one and buy it. I woke up to a boyfriend ( Read more... )

By sheer coincidence, I started catching up on Sofanauts yesterday and listened last night going home and this morning coming into work to Episode 35. This is the episode where Peter Watts talks about everything that happened when he tried to cross the border out of the US. It is an unbelievably compelling account. I had goosebumps for most of the ( Read more... )

It's no secret to those around me - at home and at work - that I have been suffering from a pretty chronic case of environmental despair for some time now. I sort of touch on it in counselling but only in so far as I no longer find the work I do as my day job to be rewarding or satisfying and I am making plans for the (medium-term) future that ( Read more... )

I was going to post about the environment today but then, amongst all the news headings about footballers getting done for cocaine possession and violence both on and off the field and what not, one idiot man stood out from amongst the other idiot men of his clan and said this:

The AFL is not ready for openly homosexual players - Jason Akermanis ( Read more... )

I gotta admit that I only got on the Jessica Watson bandwagon yesterday. Before then I was both skeptical she could make it round the world by herself and bored by the concept. I saw some of her phone homes along the way and was mostly annoyed that she hadn't brushed her hair ( Read more... )

I've not been reading up much on this topic, this is merely a response from a piece I read over at the Aqueduct Press blog:

Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who was Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, has provided a sworn statement to assist the International Human Rights Clinic at Willamette University College of Law in Oregon ( Read more... )

So, the Obama and the Senate have achieved health reform for the US. It's not perfect, it will need tinkering, hopefully it's not done. Speaking as someone who has always had access to the medical treatment I have needed, I feel very lucky to live in a country where the government and the people consider healthcare a basic need that everyone should ( Read more... )

My mother sent me this link today - she thought I'd enjoy seeing people agree with me (well, yes, who doesn't enjoy that)

The comment both fetishes a woman's virginity and reduces her value to the presence of a hymen, to the unpenetrated state of her vagina. Why is that the greatest gift a woman can give someone? What about her mind? Her actions? ( Read more... )

So I wasn't going to comment on this the other day - I will never ever vote for a party with Tony Abbott at the helm. I will never forgive him for his position and words over RU486. I felt his words were very clear about what he considered my personal rights and freedoms (or lack thereof) are over my own body ( Read more... )

Yep, I've been swearing a lot lately at the car radio on my drive into work - it's mostly the only place these days I hear the news. I'm ashamed to be an Australian in the world, to be honest with you. We voted in Kevin Rudd to lead us to a place where we didn't feel that way, the way John Howard made us feel. We voted in Kevin Rudd to fix national ( Read more... )