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Greetings, people of the past! I send this missive from three days in the future! *cue creepy music*
I would like to claim that I have taken advice offered to me regarding overwork, and stepped away from blogging in order to focus on work. I would like to claim that, but the simple truth is that I have been busy with work and not had a chance to write anything. I still do not have a chance to write anything! Such is the way of things.
In the meantime, I have some pieces of Australian news for your thoughts and condemnation:
Sean the Blogonaut notes that the tax-payer funded recruitment drive for the Catholic Church (World Youth Day) came in AU$64 million over budget- and considering that the original budget was AU$20 million, that is quite remarkable. My government -whom I supported- paid $AU86 million so that the leader of an organisation responsible for millions of AIDS- and forced pregnancy-related deaths could come to Australia and go a-recruitin’.
PharyngulorZ Master noted the other day that creationism may be allowed in some Australian curricula. I obviously have strong opinions on this, but it is not as though it is about to be in science classrooms. That would be bad. Instead the non-science is to be taught as an aspect of social studies, where it actually belongs. I actually applaud this, so long as it is approached properly, and John Wilkins has some good points on how that could be done.
In other news of my country being fucked-up, we have the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists hopping on board the bandwagon that America abandoned quick-smart: they want to legalise female genital mutilation. Oh, they claim it will only be a little ‘ritual nick’. I do not give a fuck what they call it- it is slicing into the skin of children for no good reason. Whatever happened to ‘first, do no harm‘?
I wish I were able to write at length on all these topics, but instead the best I can offer is my comments section. Unless someone would care to write a guest post? That would be nice.
EDIT 6/6/10: It turns out that the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists absolutely does not condone any form of female genital mutilation. It appears that I was wrong. This news is thanks to PodBlack Cat who also has several other interesting things to say on the subject.
