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• The Canadian Press: Journalist Stephanie Nolen wins PEN Canada Paul Kidd courage prize
  “The award is named after Paul Kidd, who died in 2002 after a career as one of Canada’s first globe-trotting foreign correspondents.” Spooky.
  (tags: paul-kidd media journalists weird)

• Positive thinking doesn’t stop cancer: US scientists (ABC)
  Cancer patients’ state of mind has no influence on their survival chances, according to a US study that contradicts a widespread belief in the power of positive thinking. Well, duh.
  (tags: science medicine cancer positive-thinking bleeding-obvious morons)
• Shorter men more likely to be paedophiles: study (ABC)
  Shorter men are more likely to be sexually attracted to children than their taller peers, according to a new Canadian study of the biological roots of paedophilia.
  (tags: what-the science pedophiles)
• Gay adoption issue ‘a matter for the states’ (ABC)
  Kevin Rudd “does not believe in gay marriage but he does want to see an end to all other discrimination against gay people,” according to this ABC report. No promises, though.
  (tags: politics rudd,kevin glbt queer same-sex-marriage same-sex-relationships discrimination adoption)

It’s been done before, but I’ve been thinking this all day:

A more reasoned response to the calling – at last – of the federal election in a day or so. Probably.

Original photo here.

Peter Costello (front, in green and red striped jumper) crashes a recent hospital visit by Kevin “07″ Rudd.

(Also visible in this photograph is federal health minister Tony Abbott, in the next crib, ordering the occupant to “grow up, move on, and get out of that taxpayer-funded crib!”).

Screengrab from ABC News.