Mordern, yes – but it’s still life

There was a very sad case on Closeup tonight. A child had gone to hospital with meningitis, and had been sent home only to return in the early hours close to death. He died shortly after being admitted. The doctors, to put it bluntly, cocked up. There are huge public campaigns telling us to pay…

Party Pills

Mike Moreu echoes my thought almost exactly. Emphasis mine. … I don’t mind that BZP has been outlawed, in fact I wish it had been done ages ago. Cattle drench can’t be good for humans, and a major New Zealand study into its effects had to be aborted at the start because it was deemed…

The Story Grows in the Telling

Let’s trace a story from end to beginning…. Armed Police stormed a bus full of Maori children Armed Police stopped and searched a bus full of Maori children Armed Police stopped a bus with three children, had the bus driver take the children off, then searched the bus Police on a hut for terrorists stopped…

Cactus Kate Refers Readers to Jordan, Expects more Loyalty to Result

(Please note: every once in a while WordPress barfs it, leaving a post halfdone. This post was one such post, but is now fixed) Cactus Kate is off for a while and won’t be writing too much, so she’s referred all her readers to read Jordan Carter’s blog. She certainly doesn’t mince words: This blog…

Reporting Self-Evident Facts can be Dangerous

This mornings Hearld’s front page story: Smacking Doesn’t Harm Children. Quick check of other blogs reveals Adolf picked this up at 6:39 am. On Saturday morning?!? My reaction to this report is a sinking heart. Why? We already knew this. A generation ago everyone was smacked, those people are now fully functional members of society.…

How about “Because we committed a crime”?

Not a story that should be a surprise to anyone, but Wi Huata recons he and his wife are being victimised.

Bush Derangement Syndrome Day!

Fun for all the family! I hear the one before last sucked, kind of a problem when the guy you claim “DOES NOT REPRESENT US” get’s reelected with a record vote and the majority Clinton never got.

9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Not PC has a theory on why conspiracy theories are so attractive. Both conspiracy “theories” and real theories purport to explain things, says Lester, but the chief difference psychologically between them — given that the chief difference in reality is that conspiracy theories are patent nonsense — is that “real theories mean work. It takes…

“I’d go back and kill bush”

Little Green Footballs has video of Cindy Sheehan stating that she’d like to go back in time and kill George W. Bush as a baby to stop stop what he’s done today.

Bringing Out the Truth

One of the best ways blogs work is to bring out facts that might otherwise remain hidden. There are many examples: Fauxtography in the recent Lebanon war Dan Rather’s fall from grace The Red Cross “targeting” incident These are a couple of majors there’s lots of examples every day. Michelle Malkin was pictured in a…