Thank you for not identifying the child, as his family doesn’t wish it.  Wish every news site would be so ethical.

An Australian science show recently helped some ordinary families establish beehives and harvest honey. They most prolific hive was kept in the inner West of Sydney, the most densely populated area on the continent. Everyone can keep bees (although it’s probably not a great idea if you’re allergic). https://iview.abc.n…

“Since the mandatory vaccination order—which required parents in defiance to pay up to a $1000 fine—was issued on April 9, an estimated 500 previously unvaccinated children between the ages of one and 5 received the MMR vaccine.”

Yours is a perfectly logical point of view. Mine (to have my kids in my early 20s) wasn’t. I wanted to have kids, I did. It remains the best thing I’ve ever done for myself. It was also, by far, the most difficult. There was never a second I wished I hadn’t.

My mum made a very pithy comment about mainstream “women’s” magazines. “They’re all the same; how to get a man and keep a man, and they go on about oral sex as if they invented it”.

As a teacher, I came across a lot of parents like this. They always declare they would Die For Their Kids, or Take A Bullet For Them, or some such bullshit. Meanwhile, they treat the kids like a pet. They genuinely love them, and would be shattered if they lost them. But make them choose between what’s best for the…

“...the company has since implemented a sexual-harassment and unconscious-bias training, promoted the company’s 24-hour anonymous hotline, reinforced a zero-tolerance policy on retaliation, and updated policies to ban intimate relationships between officers and employees.”

I know, the Emu Wars are bizarre. I’m sure it seemed a good idea at the time - they had lots of arms and ammo left over from WWI, after all, and a bunch of high-ranking military officials getting bored. Getting out there and showing the local yokels how it’s done probably seemed like a merry little weekend jaunt. But…

When my son and I get into friendly insult-slinging, he’ll eventually get around to “Well, you made me autistic by getting me vaccinated, you bad mother!” and we all laugh. He is every kind of wonderful rolled into one. Fuck anti vaxxers.

I wasn’t necessary because the government didn’t force it on people.

And rubella causes Congenital Rubella Syndrome. If a pregnant person catches rubella in their first trimester, it causes a raft of congenital deformities in the fetus. They include blindness, deafness, heart defects, intellectual disability, and an increased likelihood of freaking schizophrenia.

For those unable to picture how the fuck a bird kills someone...

Yeah, someone helping themselves to a few sprigs of lavender is one thing. Someone helping themselves to a small-yield crop like habaneros is not cool.

I’m so sorry you’re having to deal with this. Our family had to put Mum into care when her health problems became too severe to manage at home. We were shattered. It felt like we’d failed her and didn’t love her enough. Reason asserted that it was in her best interests (it absolutely was), but Emotion was telling…

Thank you! It was pretty brutal for him, but he’s doing well. She had metastatic bone cancer and euthanasia was really the only option.  He’s going to cat-sit my baby next month while I’m on holiday, and he’s looking forward to that.    

Calling an anti-vaxxer out on their lies about easily checkable facts, and ensuring they can’t delete it?  Bogart away.

He wants someone to shoot her. He literally wants her dead. Because he and his ilk just can’t handle a black Muslim woman in a position of power.

My local radio station asked people to call in “crimes” they’d experienced that were annoying, but really not worth reporting to the cops. My favourite was the Agapanthus Thief. Someone was going around a suburb, stealing Agapanthus flower heads from the plants in people’s front yards. And the stalks were cut, not brok…

“ I think it’s more important to the American taxpayers that we get this right than we hit an arbitrary deadline,” Mnuchin told reporters Saturday.

Wow, I wish I was close enough to adopt Abbey. She looks JUST like my son’s cat, who had to be put down a couple of weeks ago at age 18. He’d had her since he was little, and it was VERY hard.