museum, tackles, climate, change, deniers

In announcing the awarding of the $10,000 Eureka Prize for science writing to sole entrant ABC reporter Sarah Clarke the Australian Museum delivers a climate change polemic. Oh, for the good old days when museums concentrated on the past rather than trying to predict the future.

			\'Brutal\', Jew, lashing

Upon conviction by a rabbinic court of performing for a mixed male and female audience singer Erez Yechiel received 39 "lashes" with a leather "whip". Video shows Yerchiel – in the reflection in the glass cabinet door at the right – receiving "lashes" unlikely to draw so much as whimper from a three-year-old girl. Yet Antony Loewenstein would have us believe that an obviously symbolic punishment, to which Yechiel voluntarily submitted, is the equal of death by stoning.

			The, Melbourne, chainsaw, dismembering, Herman Rockefeller

No doubt able to afford sex with the most attractive and eager to please call girls Melbourne businessman Herman Rockefeller preferred seamy swingers. Bad move:

Mario Schembri, 58, and Bernadette Denny, 42, responded to a swingers advertisement written by Mr Rockefeller late last year.

The court has heard they attacked the 52-year-old businessman when he arrived at their Hadfield home in January for a second time without a partner and demanded sex.

Schembri told police he hit Mr Rockefeller "harder than he'd ever hit anyone".

After his death, the couple made trips to Bunnings and Safeway, where they bought an electric chainsaw, plastic sheeting, overalls, bleach and face masks.

Schembri dismembered Mr Rockefeller's body and tried to burn the remains in a 44-gallon drum at a friend's house in Glenroy.

Hmm, I wonder if dismembering a body voids a chainsaw's warranty.

			Shocking, police, trick, Taser

West Australian police have fun with Tasers:

A West Australian police officer is being investigated for allegedly tasering two men at a social gathering as a party trick.

It is alleged the incident occurred on July 23, when the woman, an officer at Carnarvon in WA's Gascoyne region, visited her boyfriend at the party while on duty.

Police say her boyfriend and another man both asked to be shocked with her Taser, and she complied.

And down south in Rockingham:

It has now been more than three weeks since the inquiry was set up after a complaint that officers had used the tasers to “drive-stun” junior officers by discharging the gun while in contact with the bodies of new recruits.

Another allegation was that officers had been using the tasers on female colleagues.

Distribute a new "toy" and the kiddies will play with it.

			ABC, bias, confirmed

Gavin Atkins provides numbers that back up my contention (back in December 2009) that the ABC is infused with left-wing bias. Opinion isn't news no matter how it's tarted up.

			How, write, like, leftard

A failed Fairfax "journalist" provides writing advice to multi-award-winning Fairfax journalist Lindsay Murdoch. You gotta laugh.