Great moments in media

From today's SMH: "Sex change for five Saudi sisters". Well, it probably *would* be.

Last week someone was "gunned down in their sleep". A listener complained that Radio National had described someone making a "360 degree about-face". And the paper said "Elderly woman critical after hit-and-run"; you can hardly blame her.

Current Affairs

Australia's federal health minister backs down over the dangerous proposal to invade teens' medical privacy.

(I pinched the image for this ikon from kermitage.com.)

Genesis 27

And now, the next exciting episode!

- Is "venison" right? Were there deer about? The RSV has "game" instead.

- I decline to embarrass myself by mentioning the TNG episode Brothers, where I first encountered this story.

- Nasty bit of blasphemy in verse 20. Naughty Jacob.

- Is Rebekah's motive in this bit of Lady Macbeth connivance because of Esau's taking non-Hebrew wives? At the end of the chapter she laments the possibility of Jacob doing the same.

Underneath the Radar

Just got hold of a six-minute version of this old favourite by the original Underworld - lyrics here. As a younger woman I got the meaning of living "underneath the radar" as living during the Cold War, but missed the other and quite obvious meaning - of being so small and unimportant to The Powers That Be that you don't count.

I still have no idea what "I’m gonna w-o-o-o-o-o ya all" - pronounced "double you oh oh oh oh oh" - means, though.

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I keep encountering ikons with illegible text - typically Buffy ones, with song lyrics in such small print you can't make out the words. Is this a deliberate stylistic choice?