Pre_Shrunk's official website is down and out.

I long ago let preshrunk.net die (donating everything to preshrunk.com).

Wikipedia seems to think Pre-Shrunk aren't important enough to keep online.

So I created my own little history of Pre-Shrunk article a while ago, but haven't "published" it because it's so full of holes I could easily fill with some research but haven't bothered to yet.

So if you know anything of Pre-Shrunk and want to help me out, feel free to contact me.

The Sydney Morning Herald today answered a question I had a few weeks ago.

What's going to happen to all that green lawn on top of our parliament house in Canberra? Not exactly the best example to set to a country full of people being told to let their lawns die.

Parliamentary Services deputy secretary David Kenny said the roof lawns must be maintained because they are structurally important.

"We do have a situation with the main roof of the building where there is a membrane which is covered by the soil and the grass. If that is exposed to ultra violet light, then that will be damaged," he said.

"We need to make sure that we protect that."

Whoops.

Abortion isn't the issue of a pregnancy help line. If someone is ringing the help line it's already too late. It's now one of those problems without a happy answer that gets everyone all hot headed and fills the newspapers and from which governments run away screaming.

The actual problem is lots of women are getting pregnant when they don't want to be.

Regardless of anyone's views on what to do about unwanted pregnancy, surely prevention is the "problem" that needs funding.

A large number of abortions points to a failure of sex education and pregnancy prevention options. A huge, tragic failure.

Throw that $50+ million dollars at male contraception research and see what that does to the abortion rate.

Perhaps.

When the only "fact" thrown in our face is the number of abortions, not the reasons for them happening, the reasons for the pregnancy, how any can anyone even talk about it?

When the government says "X number of abortions is too many" we have a right to be angry. If they'd have said "X number of unwanted pregnancies is too many" I'd have stood up and applauded. They're not the same thing.

Feel free to argue all you like about abortion or abstinence or contraception. They have no "answer", are purely based on personal beliefs and are not and never will be the point.

It's a society that won't talk to their children or each other (as adults) about sex and it's consequences when you could argue (I don't) that sex and it's consequences are the only ultimate point to life.

I guess this is why friends tell me not to read the news.

It just makes you angry for no reason.