The article paints a picture of Sarah Palin as self-absorbed and uncaring, to say the least: Knowingly sabotaging the education of her children for hew own image and indulgences, inappropriately using funds from the election campaign to purchase clothing for her family, and threatening retribution against Alaskan who might speak against her in the press. What’s more, they know the threats aren’t idle, either — the ‘Troopergate’ scandal (where Palin pressed for a state trooper involved in a custody battle with her sister to be fired) only seems to scratch the surface of the corruption. Read more »
Henry Segerman, to the best of my knowledge, is a reasonably recent addition to the academic staff at the University of Melbourne — having come in this year as a research fellow (or last year — as ever I’m a bit hazy on the details). He’s got an extremely interesting website on all sorts of math, art, and word related miscellany (I particularly recommend this paper).
And he’s also giving this week’s seminar, the details of which are below the fold…
That’s right — I’m offering you all what can only be described as the offer of a lifetime (provided you happen to only live for, say, a week). Tomorrow at 1pm, the Secular Society will be screening more highlights from the Global Atheist Convention and feasting on a smorgasbord of dips and bread (vegetarian friendly, thanks to the Food Co-op in Union House). The food will be tasting and the viewing will be intellectually stimulating — the only requirement is that you be a UMSS member, but you’re more than welcome to join up on the day for $1 or $2.
If I’ve piqued your interest, details are below the fold…
I’ve got a busy weekend ahead of me, with two assignments that need to get done and written up — as such, I’ll not have much time to blog, and by the end of the weekend I’ll likely have a sore head.
That’s why, in the spirit of teaching empathy, I’m making all of you watch this video:
Those of you unaware of Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes, a blog written by the pseudonymous Bing McGhandi, ought to familiarise yourselves with it. Intimately. Like, chuck it up on the screen, get real close to your monitor, and just rub yourself against it. I have it on good authority that every time someone does that, Bing feels a tingle.
As extra incentive know that Bing has just put together another White Supremacist Poetry Slam, where he grabs a bucket full of racist bile from the poetry section of Stormfront (a white power site) and lays the smack down by grading their work. Probably like he’s always wanted to grade some of his freshers…we may never know.
As you can see, I’ve decided that it’s about time I gave these weekly notifications some kind of label — thus is born the MUMS Friday Event category of my blog which, considering there is an event every Friday of every week, should be getting a fair bit of love from me until the end of semester.
Naturally, the events will have to go up on Thursday so that people actually know about them. We can only hope that this doesn’t cause a universe destroying time paradox.
