by Karen on September 3, 2010
Evolution has been caught in the act. Scientists have discovered a group of yellow bellied three toed skinks in colder areas of Australia have more or less abandoned egg laying and are now giving live birth.towards live birth.
Their counterparts in warmer areas of Australia continue to use eggs as a means of reproduction.
From the National Geographic:
Along the warm coastal lowlands of New South Wales, the yellow-bellied three-toed skink lays eggs to reproduce. But individuals of the same species living in the state’s higher, colder mountains are almost all giving birth to live young.
Only two other modern reptiles—another skink species and a European lizard—use both types of reproduction.
Read the entire article at the National Geographic.
by Karen on March 18, 2009
The government of Australia has apparently lost it’s frakking mind. It has a secret list of nearly 1400 sites that can get Australian website owners fined $11K (AUD) for linking to them and there’s now a report out that the number of censored sites could expand to 10K.
Already, a significant portion of the 1370-site Australian blacklist – 506 sites – would be classified R18+ and X18+, which are legal to view but would be blocked for everyone under the proposal. The Government has said it was considering expanding the blacklist to 10,000 sites and beyond.
Australia has its crazies just like the rest of us, but this is something you expect out of a place like Saudi, not a western democracy such as Australia.
by Karen on February 10, 2009
The devastating fires in Australia have claimed the lives of nearly 200 people and scorched over 900 thousand acres. What’s a pastor to do in the midst of such a tragedy?
If you’re Danny Nalliah, the leader of the unfortunately named Catch the Fire Ministries, you channel Jerry Falwell and declare the situation to be punishment from God:
“In my dream I saw fire everywhere with flames burning very high and uncontrollably. With this I woke up from my dream with the interpretation as the following words came to me in a flash from the Spirit of God.
That His conditional protection has been removed from the nation of Australia, in particular Victoria, for approving the slaughter of innocent children in the womb.”
Thousands of people have been left homeless and/or injured by the fires that have ravaged Victoria. People are mourning the loss of friends, families, pets and property.
Entire towns have disappeared. The emotional toll is probably beyond comprehension for many of us. It’s going to take Victoria and it’s residents years to recover from the devastation.
And this fuckwit looks across the land and decides that it’s a good time to attack pro-choice women and the men who support us.
Is it possible to be a worse (or better?) asshole than this guy?
