Australia

"Aboriginal pawns in nanny state's porn game."

There's a headline. The underlying story is not funny, involving racially discriminatory censorship in Australia. ADDED: There is no porn at the link, though I do find what's there highly objectionable: The government ba…

The prince doesn't eat a bug.

The BBC reports on Prince Charles (who's in Australia): Doug Taylor, who works at the Northern Territory Park, told the prince that the witchetty grubs, found in the roots of the Acacia bush, had to be eaten head first to st…

Who's emigrating for political reasons?

The NYT reports on the large number of Dutch citizens who are eager to emigrate: Many Dutch also seem bewildered that their country, run for decades on a cozy, political consensus, now seems so tense and prickly and bent on conf…

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