Life’s a beach, ladies Some guy seems not to have noticed that Taylor Swift’s hottest concert ticket of the year made her Time‘s Person of the Year. Or that Barbie was the hottest movie ticket of the year. Barbie ends with joke about women’s health care. It figures some clueless guy‘s name is Ken. Alexandra Petri noticed (Washington Post, gifted): “Judge Guerra Gamble is not medically qualified to make this determination and it should not be relied upon. A TRO is no substitute for medical judgment.” — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, writing to doctors who have received a court order allowing an abortion to end a nonviable pregnancy There is no substitute for medical judgment, except the judgment of me, Ken Paxton. Am I a doctor? No. I’m something better than a doctor: a Ken. My accessories include: no medical expertise and a boundless reservoir of cruelty. And one time, I saw a horse. I have also been told that my handwriting is bad and that I am not patient. This all screams “doctor” to me. Move over Karen. Ken is here.
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WORLD AIDS Day on Friday 1 December saw the enduringly iconic Big Banana in Coffs Harbour lit up red. Observed annually on the first day of summer in Australia, the worldwide movement run by UNAIDS is a focus for sharing information about the AIDS/HIV plight. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...
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In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Doctor Who, Peacemaker & Shazam 2, Saturday Night Live, DCU/Maxwell Lord, The Wheel of Time, and more!
IN PREPARATION for managing water emergencies, City of Coffs Harbour Local Water Utilities staff recently attended a Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) funded workshop. 35 participants from ten regional councils were tutored through scenarios that armed them with experience of potential emergencies, leaving them better prepared to safeguard water and sewerage services during floods,...
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PARADISE is restored across Urunga Wetlands six years after the completion of a $10 million clean-up of one of NSW’s most polluted sites. The filthy site was transferred to the NSW Government as Crown land to treat and contain more than 36,400 tonnes of contaminated soil and sediment, with the vision to transform the area...
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THE Lifeline North Coast, Vinnies, Salvos and Lifehouse Care Support-A-Family appeal is close to having all families supported for this year. Each year the local charities identify a list of families on the Coffs Coast in need of support through the holiday period, in the form of Christmas gifts, food donations and the like. Advertise...
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The first unveiling of the Fifteenth Doctor's new sonic screwdriver on London's South Bank, next to a Doctor Who regeneration sculpture.
Today is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted out of the scars of the Second World War, the UDHR outlined 30 inalienable rights and freedoms that belong to us all, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, creed, language, religion or background. Rights to life, liberty and privacy. Freedom […]
Some thoughts on this weekend's Doctor Who: The Giggle starring David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Neil Patrick Harris, and Ncuti Gatwa.
Avoiding conflict makes violence more likely.
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Human rights are about our relationship with those who wield public power, writes the CEO of the British Institute of Human Rights
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I’m guessing you’ve already had it up to “here” with holly jolly Burl Ives and Rudolph with his frigging red nose so bright wafting out of every elevator in sight. Christmas comes but once a year; this too shall soon pass. I promise I won’t torture you with the obvious and overplayed. Rather, I have curated 15 selections that aren’t flogged to death every year; some deeper cuts (and a few novelty items) for your Xmas creel. Happy Crimble, and a Very New Year! All I Want For Christmas – The Bobs The Bobs have been stalking me. They formed in the early 80s, in San Francisco. I was living in San Francisco in the early 80s; I recall catching them as an opening act for The Plimsouls (I think…or maybe Greg Kihn) at The Keystone in Berkeley. I remember having my mind blown by a cappella renditions of “Psycho Killer” and “Helter Skelter”. Later, I resettled in Seattle. Later, they resettled in Seattle. I wish they’d quit following me! This is a lovely number from their 1996 album Too Many Santas.
"The Giggle," the final Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special, is a fun maximum adventure that throws everything it can at us - and it worked.
Lies, Laziness and Propaganda, that’s why Chaos benefits strongmen. This sort of hysteria plays right into MAGA’s hands.
Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies explains how "bigeneration" impacted every past regeneration, created a bold new "Doctorverse."
Ncuti Gatwa & Millie Gibson get the spotlight in these new preview images for the Doctor Who Christmas special, "The Church on Ruby Road."
We may have gotten a look at the Fifteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver in the Doctor Who Christmas Special trailer; full reveal on Sunday?
All the salacious details are there for a reason Former prosecutor Harry Litman tweeted this about the Hunter Biden charges: It’s one thing to bring more serious charges against a defendant who has refused to plead–that’s plea bargaining. But Hunter Biden had nothing to do w/ the unwinding of the plea agreement. To turn around after that and charge the same conduct as a nefarious scheme is an abuse. There’s really no disputing that the grave charges against Hunter Biden would not have been filed v almost any other person who had gotten sober and paid back all tax and penalties. And the indictment is sleazy besides. As a former prosecutor, I find the dovetailing of the indictment to the hackish agenda of a political party deeply troubling. Especially when the conduct is unchanged from when the prosecution was offering to plead this out to 2 misdemeanors. Huge chunks of the 56-page indictment of Hunter Biden are about his “extravagant lifestyle,” drugs escorts etc. The relevance of this info to non-payment of taxes is tenuous in the extreme. But it certainly dirties him up.
Along with a spoiler-filled look behind the scenes of Doctor Who: "The Giggle," the BBC also released new images of Ncuti Gatwa in the TARDIS.