Sexy Poker for Wii banned

I’m playing catch up on bans this week and the first worth noting is Sexy Poker by WiiWare getting hit with an RC by the Australian Classification Board.

Why so much emphasis on research in universities?

One of the great assets of the United States is its hugely diverse higher education system. While all Australia’s public universities are (at least in theory) large and comprehensive research universities, their US equivalents enrol only 25-30% of American higher education students

So Long, Sol

Telstra’s now-former CEO, Sol Trujillo, has left early. He was due to to finish at the end of June, but he left in May, and left Australia

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (ABC1, Sunday 31 May)

Here’s one to watch tonight (Sunday, 31 May 2009) on ABC1 — Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story, a docu-drama about ‘the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960’s, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC’.

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (ABC1, Sunday 31 May)

Here’s one to watch tonight (Sunday, 31 May 2009) on ABC1 — Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story, a docu-drama about ‘the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960’s, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC’.

Incarceration as a labor market outcome

I wasn’t all that surprised that Bryan Caplan didn’t like my interpretation of our bet on EU and US unemployment rates, which was that the combined rates of unemployment and incarceration in the US would exceed those in the EU over the next ten years.

Give Mars the Ars with their healthy claptrap!

PIC: Mars Bars go up in unit price as the company declares concerns for Australians' health. Full page ads by the Mars Snackfood Company in Sunday papers around Australia would almost reduce a sceptic to tears. Crocodile tears that is! The ads say that the 60g Mars Bar will be reduced in size by 11.6% to 53g to tackle the problems of big food for Australians “by reducing portion size”

Ohh dear, Prince Charles is going to be our king?

I’m a proud monarchist, but if Charles keeps this up I might jump ship. Have a read of his l efty rant. Here are a few highlights: The first is urgency

Wise Latina woman

President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor had this to say in 2001 : : “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Which is a good excuse as any for me to post a picture of famous Latina woman, Salma Hayek:

Glossing over a possible loss

John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee for president, has a 25-year-old daughter, Meghan McCain. She identifies as a Republican and is actively involved in politics. Meghan McCain recently wrote an opinion column for the New York Daily News on the subject of homosexual marriage