Catch up on news items that you may have missed: our editorial team has been beavering away while you were at the footy, or just asleep.
Send for the Doctor
In the greatest academic news since Greta Thunberg was awarded a Doctorate of Theology, President Biden was given an Honorary Degree by Howard University.
Sky News host James Macpherson says US President Joe Biden was given an Honorary Doctorate by Howard University in Washington DC for his “intellectual ability” and “popularity”. Or was he given an Honorary Doctorate for being an Honorary President?
Meanwhile, Meghan Markle has received a “Women of Vision” Award. “You can be the visionary of your own life… There is still so much work to be done” she said.
Whatever next?
Dangerous Weapons
Can it be true that the NSW police have announced that they will be adding walking frames to their list of Schedule 1 prohibited weapons to ensure this kind of violent attack can ‘never occur again.’?
Were two police officers forced to taser a dangerous 95 year old woman, who weighed in at a staggering 42 kilos, and is believed to have been holding a walking frame and coming at the officers at a rate of three shuffles per hour?
Nuts to you
BERLIN (AP) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday sharply criticised climate activists as “nutty” for drastic protests such as blocking streets or gluing themselves to famous paintings in museums.
The chancellor added that he did not think anybody’s opinion on climate change could be changed by such actions but rather that these protests made people angry.
Members of the group Last Generation have repeatedly blocked roads across Germany in an effort to pressure the government to take more drastic action against climate change. In recent weeks, they’ve brought the traffic to a halt on an almost daily basis in Berlin, gluing themselves to busy junctions and highways.
Over the past few months, they’ve also glued themselves to various paintings in Berlin and elsewhere.
Meanwhile in Rome, radical eco-activists targeted the famed Trevi Fountain on Sunday, turning the waters black with dye to protest the supposed impending doom of climate change.
Wanted: Sensitivity Readers
The Bulletin is looking to recruit a team of sensitivity readers to help the editorial team create a safe online space from which those with distasteful views can be excluded, and to devalue untapped issues in the field of sensitivity (e.g., Are verbs racist? Is proper grammar fascism by other means?)
Here at the Bulletin, we consider ourselves at the leading edge of progressive mainstream journalism, and are keen to maintain our position in the field by bringing sensitivity readers into our growing team. Sensitivity readers would work alongside the Editor to provide an independent “Right Side of History” audit of all copy that we intend to publish.
Candidates must be fully vaccinated and will be required to produce proof of vaccination on request and mask wearing while working (minimum FFP3 level protection) is mandatory.
Members w
ho are going to the RI Convention should be sure to have WhatsApp on their phones, so we can readily contact each other.
President Andrew suggests “To download WhatsApp go to https://www.whatsapp.com/ and follow the prompts”, or get it from the App Store on your phone.
Catch you at the Convention?
TTFN
