- Catholic World Youth Day. What a crock. Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
WASN’T it hilarious how World Youth Day was an attempt to make Catholicism appear all modern and trendy, but what it achieved was to highlight how deluded and anachronistic the religion is?
The cavernous gap between the fresh-faced young teenagers and the old blokes in frocks and party hats was never more apparent than when the ...
Read more - Monogamy. What a crock. Thursday, January 27th, 2011
IT’S easy to forget that we’re just mammals wearing clothes. I’m always reminded when the spring racing carnival comes around of the primal urge we have as animals to procreate. The females of the species slink about in their strappy, low-cut dresses and high heels, and the males of the species scrub up in their ...
Read more - Republic of Australia Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Other countries fight for their independence. We could just have ours, writes Catherine Deveny.
EVEN if the Australian flag had a picture of a bloke called Davo chucking a brown-eye on it or the image of a pav whipped up by Aunty Bev, I don’t imagine that I could ever be a flag waver. But at least ...
Read more - Australian Bill of She’ll Be Rights, Mate Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
1. The right to redefinition
Any sportsman who has displayed the behaviour of a thug, an alcoholic, a violent sociopath or a rapist has the right to be described as a ‘rough diamond,’ ‘loveable rogue’ or ‘knock about character’ with a ‘heart of gold.’
2. The right to fish for compliments from foreign visitors
Citizens have the right ...
Read more - Drug policy based on science not ideology Monday, January 24th, 2011
UPDATE DECEMBER 2012 Call to legalise Ecstasy.
“The present drug classification systems have little relation to the evidence of harm, there is overwhelming evidence ecstasy is significantly less dangerous than alcohol for the user and society generally.
‘Alcohol was found to be most harmful to society and fifth most harmful to users, making it the most harmful ...
Read more - Circumsision, CUT IT OUT! Friday, January 21st, 2011
People give plenty of reasons for circumcising their male children, writes Catherine Deveny. But most of them don’t amount to anything.
NO ONE seems to be able to explain to me why the circumcision of baby boys is not considered child abuse. Why in 2011 is it still acceptable for parents to have their babies’ foreskins ...
Read more - Cycling TV Thursday, January 20th, 2011
MEN COULD NEVER get into Pilates. Why? Not enough stuff to buy. How many yoga mats and pairs of Thai fisherman pants can you have? That’s why blokes love cycling. Ride for an hour, come home and then spend five hours trawling the net for the perfect high-modulus-weave carbon-fibre seat post.
Is it my imagination or ...
Read more - Cycling Thursday, January 20th, 2011
THE only people that you will find outdoors at the moment are prostitutes, smokers and cyclists. And it seems in many circles that is how their social desirability is currently rated, in descending order.
I’ve had a gutful of “cyclists are a menace” comments. A car cuts them off? The driver is an idiot. A cyclist ...
Read more - Ricky Gervais’ hosting the 68th Golden Globe Awards Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
I just did what I do.
That was Ricky Gervais’ response to the confected outrage over his hosting of the 2011 Golden Globe awards.
For those of you who want to bone up CLICK HERE for Gervais’ brilliant monologue and HERE for the best bits from last year and this year. Because you’re worth it.
And for those of you ...
Read more - Logies 2006 Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
IF YOU ENJOY WATCHING celebrities eat their own vomit, tune in on Sunday night to watch the Logies. Television’s night of nights is four hours of nauseating, self-congratulatory toss that is so hilarious you can’t help being reminded of the Commonwealth Games.
You’re going to do it. I know you are going to switch over to ...
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People give plenty of reasons for circumcising their male children, writes Catherine Deveny. But most of them don’t amount to anything. NO ONE seems to be able to explain to me why the circumcision of baby boys is not considered child abuse. Why in 2011 is it still acceptable for parents to have their babies’ foreskins ...
