Random links
- John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74
- Makes your life seem a little boring: "At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle. At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate."
- You Can’t Legislate Morality
- Martin Luther King Jr.: "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me but it can keep him from lynching me and I think that is pretty important, also."
- Shared care dead as mother stands firm on no access
- "In a decision that suggests the 'shared care' law introduced by the Howard government was effectively dead, a full bench of the Family Court said 'the mother would ignore any order for contact' and, as a result, it was pointless to order her to co-operate." Wonderful when a judge deems someone not following a court order as a reason not to issue it rather than to impose sanctions for failure to comply. (Might have to come at this one via Google)
- Female teachers accused of giving boys lower marks
- What the actual article suggests is that teachers give better marks to students of their own gender - although with 85% of elementary school teachers being female per the article it's not that significant a difference.