Further to GrodsCorp’s story yesterday, Dr (sic) John “TingTong” Ray has reached the pinnacle of academia: he’s been published! Okay, so it’s only in the The Australian’s “Strewth” column, but just like GroupThinkFC, TingTong will take the wins any way they come.

Anyone for tenuous?
THE US presidential election campaign dived to a new low yesterday when an Australian blogger called John Ray claimed to have uncovered three “pornographic” photographs of Barack Obama’s mother Ann Dunham. While mainstream American newspapers backed away from publishing the claims, the internet went crazy with dozens of sites running the old black and white snaps. While the woman photographed bears some resemblance to Dunham, who died of cancer aged 54, there is absolutely no proof it is her, and the photographs are anything but pornographic. The woman is naked but for stockings, high-heeled shoes and oversized Christmas earrings but the poses are modest by today’s standards. She is posed in front of a Christmas tree and piles of wrapped gifts. Anti-Obama bloggers claim the jazz LP records seen in one of the snaps somehow prove that Dunham, if it is her, posed for a communist.