Randomness

- Oh god. Michael Jackson's "Black or White" is considered a musical flashback on one Sydney radio station. I remember when this song came out. Now I feel old.

- Last week I watched a news piece on feral camel culling. Only in Australia.

- I'm banning myself from buying any more books. Because my "currently reading" pile is nine books high, and I'm avoiding even looking at my "yet to read" pile.

- Why 'Arrow' Is The Best Superhero Show On Television
Arrow's major villains matter, is the point: they challenge Oliver both as a person and a hero, and don't leave without a major impact on the characters viewers have come to feel for.
(Full of spoilers)

- When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lose Too
If we really lost antibiotics to advancing drug resistance — and trust me, we're not far off — here's what we would lose.

- Deliverance: The True Story of a Gay Exorcism
It's impossible to know how many young gay people have undergone exorcism in the thousands of Pentecostal and Evangelical churches across the country—not all of which, to be sure, condone the practice. However, youth workers say they regularly deal with the aftermath of these rituals. And not just in the parts of the country where Evangelical Christianity is traditionally strong.

And in case anyone on my FList thinks , "only in America," a few years ago my sister - who is bisexual - got involved with a C3 Church here in Australia, and they wanted to perform an exorcism on her. She left. They came to our door, demanding to see her. Quote: "I can see the Devil in her eyes!" My mother had to block the door and tell them to bugger off.

It happens more than you might think in more places than you might think.