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David

  • Male teacher crisis – 57% unsubstantiated or doubtful claims against them

    A South Australian male teacher has warned all young men to stay clear of a teaching career due to unsubstantiated or doubtful claims that might be made against them by female students.

  • Dear wounded heart…

    Dear Wounded Heart, Today I told you to toughen up. When an old wound was reopened unexpectedly and I felt the sharpness of a knife cut through it, I said, \'You shouldn\'t be feeling this pain. You should be over that by now, don\'t be ridiculous.

  • Be ambitious

    Student rallies to protest cuts to higher education in Australia last month led me to an interesting discovery: government spending on higher education has grown at double the rate of the growth of the economy over the last 20 years.

  • Memorable verses of Scripture

    Much of the correspondence my wife and I receive, as faith financed missionaries for 39 years, includes bible verses that the person writing to us feels deeply about and expresses that with us, as part of their private communication.

  • Tom and Jerry! Terrorists?

    Tom and Jerry cartoons and video games are behind a rising tide of violence in the Middle East according to a top Egyptian intelligence agency.

  • Leicester Win Improbable Title!! Euro's Loom!!

    Leicester City have won the most unlikely of titles, finishing the English Premier League season strongly with positive results that meant finishing the season on 81 points and only loosing 3 matches on the way.

  • Finding the perfect boyfriend

    A few years back I watched a Taiwanese drama based off the manga Absolute Boyfriend, where a girl orders a robot boyfriend (the unrealistically attractive Jiro Wang) who is what every girl would want in a boyfriend.

  • Revival economics

    Stories carry power. What we hear and how we respond is the foundation of pretty much everything that we allow to come to pass on this planet of ours.

  • What the Witch said

    \"You have a traitor there, Aslan.\" said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund.\' – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  • No Muslim family should engage in birth control: Turkey's Erdogan

    No Muslim family should engage in birth control or family planning, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, calling again on pious Muslims to have more children.