Yargh

Stab-stab wiggle-wiggle Vanstone get's a mention in Boing Boing with her psychotic airline plastic knife whinging. Although they might have left out the bit where she says "and by the time I'm trying to hack my way through my fifteenth steak, I'm breaking out in a sweat."

But they did include: "If I... grabbed (Howard) by the front of the head and stabbed the HB pencil into (his) eyeball and wiggled it around down to (his) brain area." - damn, give that woman a portfolio!

I can only ask this - would, had she listened to the voices in her head on that one, would the nation judge her harshly?

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On a completely unrelated note, we have pirates.

Not the ones hijacking those poor luxury cruise ships, or even ones with anything to do with the Flying Spaghetti Monster (may we all be touched by his noodly appendage). No, we got better pirates. Robin Hood pirates.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is in town (Melbourne),



This is the 50-metre, ice-breaking Farley Mowat, named after a man of the same name.

On December 5 it will travel to Antarctic waters in a bid to "harass, hinder and obstruct" the Japanese whaling ships from their prey.

The Sea Shepherd "pirates", founded by Paul Watson, are more combative than Greenpeace, which Mr Watson helped to establish. Indeed, it is unlikely there will be co-operation between Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace, which has two ships on the way to the whale-hunting area.

It's like Greenpeace's evil twin. Or perhaps 'Greenwar'. Just like Greenpeace, but without all that woosy stuff.

The ship is equipped with high-tech anti-whaling devices: protesters will use small speedboats, robotic helicopters (to remotely film the whale slaughter) and power-skis.

National Geographic will be on board to document the bloodshed (of whales that is), and it's all 'LEGIT' as they say. "What we do is dangerous but it is also legal and non-violent," said Mr Watson from the bridge of his ship. "We are upholding international conservation law. (The Japanese) are criminals and they don't have any justification for what they are doing."

Mr Watson, who will be played by actor Christian Bale in a movie being shot about the Sea Shepherd's early days, said the Australian Government was hypocritical to search for illegal Indonesian fishing boats but do nothing about Japanese whaling.

"The message Australia is sending is, 'if you are rich enough, you can break the law'," he said.
"You need pirates to stop pirates; you can't depend on governments. If they were doing their job, we wouldn't have to do this."

Yes, I think I need a catchphrase, something along the lines of "Issues/jobs that wouldn't exist if Greens were in power around the world" - this sounds like one of them.

Paul Watson will talk about the Antarctic mission and show a documentary at RMIT's Kaleide Theatre on November 29. For details, visit whale100000.org. Sounds like a great night out. (Why does anyone even bother going to the movies when there are things like this to see?)

The RMIT is also hosting "Andrew Bolt vs. Rob Watts: Groupthink and the University Left" on Friday, which I'm not sure if I would bother seeing.

Anyways, here is the flag the Shephard flies:

Yargh.