A hodge podge of stories, with little time to comment on them in depth, but then again perhaps there is no need to.
Linley Boniface fights for the rights of breastfeeding mothers, pointing out that this very natural and healthy practice is increasingly considered an inappropriate activity in public. That's possibly because everything is sexualised as much as possible, so even breastfeeding gets the "ooh err" treatment. Which is ridiculous, but that's modern society for you. So here am I, a male, Christian who sees nothing wrong with breastfeeding in public. And so Linley finishes up with this strange quote: it's particularly ironic that conservative Christians seem to be among the most vociferous opponents of public breastfeeding...". You might need to check your anti-Christian bias meter there Linley, given the Conservative Christians I know have little problem with it.
And Andy Haden has apologised. So everything is alright then.
Dennis Hopper is dead. And so is some-one else famous whose name escapes me at this instant (I'm starving, must be the blood sugar levels). On the other hand I noticed a huge advertisement saying happy birthday to Jim Anderton, and thanks for the long years of service to the country. Couldn't see the Parliamentary Crest, so I wonder whose money paid for that little effort? Well, he's a lucky man to have such grateful fans.
And BP still hasn't managed to plug the gushing oil. This is fairly serious. Lynching them, like some oil consumers wish to do seems to miss the point that they would still expect to buy their oil from elsewhere, rather than not use it at all. Although there would one or two Greens that are prepared to give up using oil, and let the pestilence and mayhem fall where it may. The political fallout can wait though, let's get the well capped. Maybe they should set up a mind fest comprised of the genius and simpleton, NASA rocket scientist and your average oil rig worker and between them apply some creative thinking to solve this problem. Pronto.
There was other bits of news too, but I smell dinner! Later dudes.
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