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• Australian Politics Test - my results
  Apparently I’m so far to the left I’m leftier than Trotsky on a good day. Who knew?
  (tags: politics quiz australia)

(Via Joe. My. God., via Queerty)

Bible-thumping homo-hate-rock from someone clearly sorely tempted by the ways of Sodom (not that anyone would do him with that moustache) … or parody?

Read the bible, and you’ll be sure
To enter heaven — there’s no back door.
Righteous man, get on your knees,
There lies no virtue in sodomy.
…
You filthy sinners should just let me be
‘Cos Jesus my saviour’s the only man for me!
God hates a fag
God hates fags…

Joe is calling for remixers…

UPDATE: There’s a discussion in Progress at Joe. My. God. suggesting the video is a wind-up, and naming the perp…

UPDATE: Donnie Davis has a video blog in which he thanks Andrew Sullivan (”obviously a great Christian man”) for “getting behind me.” Much discussion about whether Donnie really is an ex-gay or a (very clever) parody at Towleroad and elsewhere. Developing, as they say on Drudge…

FINAL(ish) UPDATE: JMG has exposed the truth, or at least some of it…

Howard announced a cabinet reshuffle today – not a very wide-ranging one, just tinkering at the edges. Amanda Vanstone’s been boned (although there seems to be a hint of a diplomatic posting in her future); the unspeakably dull Kevin Andrews moves from Employment to take Mandy’s well-worn place in immigration, while Joe Hockey gets to be the new point man for Workchoices. Malcolm Turnbull gets a big promotion and gets to sit in the Cabinet room, and there a few other rearrangements, mostly very hum-ho in nature – there’ll no doubt be plenty of discussion about whether this is enough to keep the coalition in the running for the election later this year.

Howard also announced a change of name for the immigration department, which used to be called the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (and not so long ago the Department of Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs). It’s now to be known as the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, meaning this new ministry will be the first since the Whitlam era not to have a minister for Ethnic (then) or Multicultural (now) Affairs. Howard’s program to re-make Australia into a white, middle-class, mortgage-obsessed, nation of flag-waving xenophobes is proceeding according to plan.

Having had some dealing with the immigration department in the past, I have to observe that the new moniker will create some challenge to those working in the arena, among whom the department is universally known by the initialism ‘DIMA’ (or ‘DIMIA’ in the day). Not any more, now it’s DIC, and Kevin Andrews is a DIC head.

• Own a Banksy original – free
  “Prints look best when done on gloss paper using the company printer ink when everyone else is at lunch.”
  (tags: street-art art culture banksy free)
• Syphilis resurgence prompts call for yearly test for gay men
  Victorian health authorities say gay men should have a syphilis test every year, or every six months if they have more than one partner – just what we argued with last year’s Rug Up for Winter campaign. Oral sex is a major vector.
  (tags: glbt health stis syphilis hiv sexual-health rugup)

If you’re a Sydney resident (or if you’re not and you happen to be in Sydney on 25 January - Australia Day eve), you could do a lot worse than make you way to the Manacle:

MANACLE are proud to be supporting ethel yarwood enterprises for the 2007 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. Last year MANACLE sponsored this crazy crew of performers as The Kate Moss Line Dancers (above), which won the Funniest Parade Entry Award. Since 1988 this team has produced some of the more legendary parade entries including Keith Haring (1997), Dick van Dykes on Bikes (1998), The Happy Little SODOMITES (2000), The Bougainville Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (2001) and Jenny & Craig (2004) which also all won awards.

And believe us, this year the ethel yarwood enterprises’ entry is up to their usual level of humour and parody.

The staging of parade entries of this standard requires investment in time, effort and money. The ethel yarwood enterprises team obviously expend the time and effort to create these extravaganzas. MANACLE are pleased to be able to assist with financial aspects. On the Australia Day eve (25th January, 10pm - 1am) MANACLE is hosting an entry-by-donation fundraiser. A simple, inexpensive, painless gold coin donation to the lads at the door will put you in a raffle draw.

Prizes include:

• a double pass to the Opening Night of the Mardi Gras Queer Screen Festival My Queer Career film competition which includes the fabulous after party
• three-course dinner for two at Razors Edge restaurant, Enmore
• $50 bar tab at MANACLE
• MANACLE lager

The raffle will be drawn on the night with the winners being notified by sms or phone.

Also ethel yarwood enterprises team are looking for participants for their parade entry. If you’ve ever wanted to be in the parade this is an opportunity to be involved in some of the lunacy. Just contact Kabi at kabi@yarwood.com.au (casting couch optional ).

I am sworn to secrecy, but I can say that this is the parade entry we had to have - and it’ll only cost you a couple of bucks and a few minutes at the Manacle to make it happen. Go.

Enmore Theatre, Sydney.

(Thanks, Kabi!)

Not “Clinton for President”. Just Hillary.

• You’ve checked the price and calorie count, now here’s the carbon cost | Food | Guardian Unlimited Environment
  A big supermarket chain in the UK is planning to put carbon emission labels on its 70,000 products, “so that shoppers can compare carbon costs in the same way they can compare salt content and calorie counts.”
  (tags: environment consumption carbon tesco uk)
• Surf clubs a beacon for clean energy
  Bega - the town where I grew up - is going green. The Tathra Surf Club, scene of many an adolescent celebration in my day, is part of the story too.
  (tags: environment green bega tathra energy)
• Surge in carbon levels raises fears of runaway warming
  Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere much faster than scientists expected, raising fears that humankind may have less time to tackle climate change than previously thought.
  (tags: environment co2 greenhouse noaa global-warming climate climate-change)

Via Joe. My. God., from the New York Times:

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• Food critic declares war on bottled water (via Treehugger)
  Mineral water is a preposterous vanity. It is flown and shipped around the world, from France and Norway at best, from Japan and Fiji at worst. It is bottled in glass that is mostly thrown away and is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic which never,
  (tags: environment food food-miles water consumption common-sense)