In kindy, I plagiarised this story as The Magic Honey Prawn Pot (that being my favourite food at the time). I’d seen it read on Playschool (by Benita, I think). I got a gold sticker AND a chocolate almond from the principal for my ‘excellent story’. I did confess to my dad, but to this day I’m not sure if Mr Brown…

Aha! This sounds like the end result of Tessa’s S2 macguffin - the accumulated guest data. If Incite knows what you will choose/decide/buy before you do, they can eliminate market research and only produce products that will sell, or provide ridiculously customised products at the same cost as mass-production, or find…

You’re Congress. You have sergeants-at-arms. This is what they are for. And even for ‘civil’ institutions, this is literally the point at which you stop being civil and send a big guy with a big stick to get results.  

I thought that might be the case. It occurred to me that might be a factor in the timing, no point impeaching 45 if he gets re-elected six months later. (Or if it then gives the next Republican candidate a boost and the damage to your judiciary and institutions continues even without 45.)

Here’s a question, can an impeached president get re-elected? 

Not quite. Truvada is on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, so the retail cost to the patient is $40 ish, or $7 ish concession. The Australian government pays the manufacturers $380 ish. Still a massive difference, tho. 

When I hear about these deaths, I have the following mental image - a cell, made of one way glass, mirror side in, housing Trump, naked except for the names of his victims tattooed on his orange skin backwards, so he is forever a living memorial, while his own physical identity is erased.

Oh wow. That’s layers of f’ed up. First of all, this is a blatant ripoff of a ‘dammit’ doll, one of those cutesy, cheekily vulgar crafts you make for friends. It’s a little sandbag shaped like a bowling pin, it has the little verse (which rhymes) stitched on or on a paper label, and despite the name is NOT meant to…

(Love it. Stealing it.)

The question still remains, was Pence called back as SOP, or because they needed a sane backup for Trump during a crisis? (I would have thought having your No 2 in a different state during a possible nuclear incident would be prudent security.) 

Oh lordy, how is that legal?! Your body has a perfectly good system for processing and delivering nutrients to your blood, it’s called EATING AND DRINKING. If you are so far gone you need an immediate IV, you should be in a hospital! And any invasive procedure (even one as routine as this) HAS RISKS. Do you want…

Whatever happened to that million dollar bet that Trump made, that Warren wouldn’t get DNA tested to prove her Native-American-ancestry claims? When she did it, the fallout was predictably bad, and I thought she was nuts for letting it happen that way. But now, it’s old news, it’s going to be eclipsed by her policies…

(I know you’re being facetious but blue pens are, in fact, trash.)

If I had a dollar for every time I rolled my eyes since this ‘heartbeat’ shite started... cardiac cells start ‘beating’ almost immediately, they’ll beat in a Petri dish for as long as you can keep them alive. It’s amazing, but it doesn’t make it a heart, a viable foetus or a person. 

And it’s always tech bros, people who are obsessed with novelty and status - forget ‘forever’, they’ll be suicidal with boredom in 200 years, tops. 

Musing on a fitting punishment for Cheetolini, at the pub one night, it was determined to tattoo the names of his victims on his face, backwards, and imprison him in a cell made entirely of mirrors, so that in one swoop his identity is hijacked, erased, and serves as permanent reminder and memorial. 

Japan! Get a JR pass and go frickin everywhere. I’m doing Tokyo, Osaka, Nara, Hakone, more Tokyo in September. (Beware of timing with the Rugby World Cup tho.)

It occurred to me that it might be tied to the idea that they (an older white male in charge) can’t be wrong, or lose face. Having to ask about anything is practically anathema, let alone the possibility of being rejected by a woman in any way, even in something so minor.

Oh honey, C. auris is already here. It’s been rising on the watchlists for a while now. But generally have we have pretty good rates of antimicrobial stewardship, although they need to be much better (wash your damn hands, people). 

“If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer,”