INTERESTINGLY, during the years when rationing was enforced (during the Second World War), the prevalence of obesity was negligible in the United Kingdom. And waste was minimised as both individuals and government agencies were busy finding new ways of reducing the waste of food resources to a minimum (sustainable consumption). Is it conceivable that some form of food rationing and portion control may help address the dramatic rise in obesity and the sustainability of our food supply?
CRAP! James Morrow blogs on Prick with a Fork on Monday:
WELL, er, I suppose so, Professor Davey. After all, short of Kim Jong-un, you never see a fat North Korean, do you?
Professor Davey, despite holding a Ph.D., seems unable to tell the difference between correlation and causation: Britons weren't terribly fat before or after rationing, either, as the source of this piece points out.
One might as well propose rationing to increase the quality of Australian novelists; after all, Kingsley Amis wrote Lucky Jim during rationing, so if it worked for the Brits, why not us?
Deliciously, she also runs something called the Centre for Research & Action in Public Health, but it is probably better remembered by its shortened name, CRAP Health.
Phillip Adams tweets on Monday:
TIME to show guns as metal dicks attempting to dignify weak whackers. To lampoon phallic symbolism and depict gun users as sexually insecure.
Phillip Adams, Radio National, November 19:
I ACTUALLY shoot the odd feral cat at the farm.
What the statement to the ASX from James Packer's Consolidated Press Holdings, mirroring a similar statement from Lachlan Murdoch regarding the Ten Network, said about an increase in shares yesterday:
THE increase in voting power will be offset such that CPH's net change in voting power regarding Ten is expected to be nil.
The beat up. Australian Financial Review online yesterday:
James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch have increased their stake in the Ten Network to just below the takeover threshold . . . More to come.
The backdown. AFR online a little later yesterday:
James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch have increased their stake in Ten Network to just below the takeover threshold, although the change is expected to be reversed once the broadcaster's capital raising is complete.
Depend on Aunty to defend the right to misinform. Antony Loewenstein, ABC Online's The Drum yesterday:
ISRAEL is not a normal country and proudly practises apartheid against Palestinians. Jake Lynch has taken one small step in publicly stating his opposition to our complicity in these crimes. His decision is an example of how principled academia should behave.
Just a few facts. Mitchell G Bard, Jewish Virtual Library:
Today, within Israel, Jews are a majority, but the Arab minority are full citizens who enjoy equal rights and are represented in all the branches of government. Arabs are represented in the Knesset, and have served in the Cabinet, high-level foreign ministry posts (e.g., Ambassador to Finland ) and on the Supreme Court. Under apartheid, black South Africans could not vote and were not citizens of the country in which they formed the overwhelming majority of the population. Laws dictated where they could live, work and travel.
And, in South Africa, the government killed blacks who protested against its policies. By contrast, Israel allows freedom of movement, assembly and speech. Some of the government's harshest critics are Israeli Arabs who are members of the Knesset . . . It is likely that a final settlement will allow most Palestinians to become citizens of their own state.
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