There’s a homeless guy who begs at the top of the escalators in Melbourne central. The tiles probably get pretty cold, but he’s got it sorted so his arse doesn’t freeze. He goes downstairs to the MX newsapaper dispenser and gets a stack of them to sit on. He probably gets the same amount of [...]

Following on from the Fertile Environment post, the environment for human cloning research is apparently ripe. Even Dubya has decided it’s ok to use the unborn for scientific purposes. I wonder where the heck we went wrong here? None but the most fundamental ever faulted the IVF programmes of the world. Yet here’s the [...]

It’s interesting how in history seemingly unrelated events and circumstances provide just the right environment for change. The First World War was triggered by the death of a seemingly inconsequential crown prince. The Cold War and threat of the Bomb bred a generation of Baby Boomers, living for the moment as they expected to die [...]

School Uniform
Ashleigh loses her school jumper a lot, so we got a bunch of sew-on labels to put on her stuff. On the inside neck of her jumper now is a large fabric label that has her last name in big letters. And it has still gone missing, not in her classroom or lost property, [...]