Sometimes I just need to rant. Be afraid, you are my captive audience.
This time the headline screams: Teen accused of sex assaults in Facebook scam. Ooooh, very exciting and dramatic. Turns out some 18-year-old conned classmates into doing dodgy stuff. An 18-year-old US student is accused of posing as a girl on Facebook, tricking at least 31 male classmates into sending him naked photos of themselves and […]
More bad press for Facebook Read Post »
As more information comes to light about Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets born in Los Angeles, the more I think the woman is an A-grade idiot. And a selfish one at that. So now we know she already had six kids at home aged between 2 and 7, including twins. Okay you might
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It’s an absolute tragedy for the family of Aussie girl Gemma Thoms that she died from a drug overdose at the Big Day Out in Perth. But how the hell can supposedly intelligent people blame the cops for this? According to a news report, witnesses reckon Gemma saw police officers searching people for drugs as
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(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Suicide isn’t a topic many of us want to discuss but the death of a United States teen last week has made it a hotly debated topic online and there have been calls for censorship of the internet. However, short of putting in place the
Suicide and apathy on the internet Read Post »
So, what will you be doing with all that cash you’ll have burning a hole in your pocket with our exciting tax cuts that come into being tomorrow? The lovely people at Infometrics have a calculator on their site if you’re wanting to work out just how much you’ll have to treat yourself with now
Tax cuts: Oooh, let’s go crazy! Read Post »
Hah, I was right. Some of us aren’t smarter than the animals! It seems there was a bloke who picked himself up a friendly young woman in a bar. They made there way to the railway tracks, where they proceeded to do the horizontal tango (you know, the shag nasty … bumping uglies … bonking and
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I don’t know whether I’m more angry, sad or embarrassed at the internet news censorship ruling by a New Zealand judge last week. Manukau District Court judge David Harvey has decided newspapers, television and radio can name the two men charged with murdering South Auckland teenager John Hapeta on August 12. Even their images are
Online ban was never going to work Read Post »
How ridiculous is it that Pharmac — the government agency that pharmaceutical purchasing agency — has decided to give the okay to government funding for flavoured condoms? It was just a few weeks ago that Pharmac turned down funding for 12-month courses of the breast cancer drug Herceptin and there have been many other controversial decisions
Well that just sucks (ooh, a bad pun) Read Post »
