saves me the effort

I was going to post something about the loathsome Neil French, but ms fits has saved me the effort.

Snip from the original article:

As the creative head of the world's biggest advertising group, Neil French can usually be relied on to come up with a catchy slogan.

But yesterday, with his career as worldwide creative director of the advertising agency WPP abruptly terminated, it seemed clear that "women are crap" was not one of his most successful.

so...

From The Age, today:

State in rethink on late abortion

Regrettably, they're not going to be allowing abortions in the 196th trimester:

waking up is hard to do

Via Boing Boing, someone's written a nice guide to waking up in a way that's less ugly.

* Set an alarm to go off before you want to wake up.

* Make the alarm really quiet radio or music.

* Set a second alarm to go off at the latest time you want to wake up.

* Make the alarm the usual loudness.

Posted partly for myself, and partly for someone I know who could probably do with more gentle mornings...