rantykiwi This week’s snowflake award goes to a woman who is all bent out of shape about walking her kids past an adult shop and them having to see bondage items in the windows. She doesn’t want to have to explain it to them, but feels they may
Leah Shaffer www.sapiens.org. In January 2016, Cathryn Townsend set out to live among “the loveless people.” So named by anthropologist Colin Turnbull, the Ik are a tribe of some 11,600 hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers living in an arid and harsh mountainous region of Uganda. Turnbull studied
Damian Wyld Director, Australian Family Coalition Earlier this week a 21-year-old university student from Queensland took his own life. Wilson Gavin was a young same-sex attracted man who didn’t fit the expected narrative. A pro-life and pro-family activist, Wilson was vocal in his defence
JoNel Aleccia Kaiser Health News Kathy Brandt, a hospice industry leader who turned her own terminal cancer diagnosis into a public conversation about choices at the end of life, died Aug. 4. She was 54. Brandt’s death was announced on social media by her wife and partner of 18
Anna Maria Barry-Jester Kaiser Health News OAKLAND, Calif. — It’s 5 a.m., and the thermostat reads 44 degrees. Cars round the bend of an off-ramp of state Route 24 in northern Oakland, spraying bands of light across Norm Ciha and his neighbours. They wear headlamps so they
Katherine Ellison Q&A – Psychologist Vicki Helgeson knowablemagazine.org What helps some people diagnosed with cancer, heart disease or diabetes stay relatively happy and healthy, while others are devastated? Psychologist Vicki Helgeson explains the traits and mindsets that can make the difference. People everywhere are living longer than ever.
Heather Shearer, Griffith University Samuel Alexander, University of Melbourne The reasons for choosing to go tiny range from reducing debt, inability to afford a conventional home, the search for sustainability, a life crisis, or even preparing for an uncertain future in the face of climate change by going off-grid.
Sasha Isaac Sasha Isaac recently graduated from New York University where she studied bioethics. Her master’s thesis was on transnational surrogacy in India. While some women experience pregnancy and childbirth as joyful, natural and fulfilling, others find themselves recoiling in horror at the physical demands of carrying and sustaining
MK The long-overdue dispatch to “martyrs paradise” of one of the world’s leading plotters and purveyors of terror has unleashed a not unexpected avalanche of hypocritical hysteria, writes M K. Instead of widespread commendation that a man responsible for the deaths of thousands and commander of a force
George Milo Yiannopoulos. There’s a name which you most likely haven’t heard in a long time. The last real mention of Milo in mainstream media was the announcement that his Facebook and Instagram accounts (which had millions of followers) were to be deleted, which effectively de-platformed him
Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners (on behalf of the Fair and Reasonable Campaign) I hope you have all had a relaxing summer break. Here at COLFO, we’ve continued working hard over the break to fight the Government’s unfair changes to firearms laws. Apologies that it
Fred Lucas PA Pundits – International Longtime Trump-hunters were joined by far less familiar faces, including a former police chief, a former judge, and a former Army Ranger, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named impeachment managers. The House managers appointed Wednesday will act as prosecutors, making the case to remove
Wendy The headline on the latest NZ Herald opinion piece by recently minted journalist, the PM’s partner Clarke Gayford, signals that they had a secret holiday and he is going to spill the beans. Not so secret then? Notice how he is able to do his partner’s PR
Straight arrow Yesterday I came across a New Zealand “business owner” who tweeted support for the increase in the minimum wage and declared that they are already paying their employees a ” living wage.” Frustrated yesterday by ACTs tweet today saying that the raising of the minimum wage is detrimental to
Ellis Cashmore Fair Observer The queen agrees to a “transition” for Meghan and Harry — but what are they transitioning to? You can understand Meghan Markle’s frustration. There she is, half of one of the most illustrious, acclaimed and renowned couples on the planet. Practically every time she switches on
George It is difficult to debate with those who will not communicate. The climate change examination is no longer about the issue but about the crushing of alternative views. We are all guilty of that from time to time. The first sign of desperation is not being able to withstand
