Seven years after being impounded by police, the orange and white Volkswagen Kombi driven by Peter Falconio when he was killed and his girlfriend abducted has been ‘released’. As crucial evidence, it’s been kept under cover all this time but is now out on the compound with crashed and stolen vehicles waiting a decision by … More On the road again.
Life is full of tragedies. Mostly they pass us by unless you’re personally involved. Millions die all over the world from war, disease, starvation, or plain neglect and we neither know nor care, except on an impersonal; “Oh those poor people… ” sort of feeling. If we’re stirred at all, we send off our donations … More It's so much worse when you *know*.
For those of us of a ‘certain age’ one of the high spots of our young lives was the regular dose of comedy from “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In’ which was an extremely funny if bizarre US made comedy programme, which in style might be likened to a cross between the Goons and Monty Python! The … More Dick Martin dies aged 86.
Following on from the furore about the exploitation of 12 year old girls by using them in sexually explicit photography, we now have the case of a 12 year old girl in Victoria who told a judge that she thinks she is a boy and is being allowed to change her sex!! Amazing though it … More Kids grow up so fast these days!
Pity this poor couple on May 12th 2008. The girl in the wedding dress has just been married, she steps outside the church to have her photo taken by Wang Qiang and as he takes the snaps there is a distant rumble… … the distant rumble gets closer then stones fall of the church and … More Did the earth move for you Nancy?
In Sydney yesterday an exhibition of images by acclaimed photographer Bill Henson was raided by police and its opening night was cancelled. The DPP are currently examining the photographs, the events surrounding their being taken, and interviewing all the models concerned, The reason was that the images to be displayed were of ‘underage’ children, as … More Bill Henson – artist or pervert?
That ‘dripping’ is the sound of the steady erosion of privacy and individual freedom as the UK descends still further into the realms of Big Brother and the advent of the Police State. Bizarrely, to me at least, it’s a Labour government that is currently creating a Data Communications Bill to be presented as part … More Drip, drip, drip, drip…
Despite my complaints about UK rag, The Daily Mail in the last post, I *did* read several of the stories. One that caught my eye was yet another story about the bizarre garbage collection laws currently being enforced in draconian style by kerbside Nazis. In this particular case a 22 year old woman has been … More More rubbish about rubbish.
Until a few minutes ago I hadn’t heard of Joan Jackson who died aged 92 on April 11th. At least I *thought* I hadn’t, yet after reading the story that went along with the headline that attracted me, I soon learned I was mistaken! Joan Jackson was in fact *the* Joan Hunter Dunn made immortal … More Joan Jackson who she??
The UK papers were awash a few days ago with the stirring words of the Duchess of York, a.k.a. Fergie as she defended the honour of her daughter the Princess Beatrice a.k.a. ‘chubby buns’ who is getting a lot of flak (she says) because of her size and shape, i.e. errr… cuddly (?). Well you’d … More Chubby buns?
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