Quote of the Day: MLK on lukewarm acceptance vs outright rejection
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Today in WTF is the Gillard govt thinking?
Handing the current Federal environmental oversight and protection powers to the State Premiers? If it weren’t for the protection of the Federal government, we would have lost places like the Great Barrier Reef, the Franklin River, the Daintree Rainforest and Fraser Island a long time ago.
Nugget of Awesome: welcome to evo psych redux
[Evolutionary psychology hardly covers] the evolution of morality, the evolution of politics, of cuture, of the artistic sense, etc … There is instead an obsessive focus on gender roles.
Media Circus: Silly Season edition
What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.
Horseshit of the day: War on Men, Things Girls Do That Guys Hate
I wonder if either of these twerps found a pony after all that shoveling?
Media Circus: do union officials really face no penalties for embezzlement, or is the Opposition wasting everybody’s time edition
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Quicklink: Stella Young on communication guidelines and disability
Let me make this quite clear. I do not identify as a person with a disability. I’m a disabled person. And I’ll be a monkey’s disabled uncle if I’m going to apologise for that.
Media Circus: Gaza edition
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Comedy: The boys’ club asserts itself, Feminist Killjoys destroy the vibe
Content Note: discussion of rape jokes
You know that old chestnut. COMEDY SHOULD BE SACROSANCT. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO JOKE ABOUT ANYTHING. TO ANYONE.
Savita Halappanavar dead when an abortion could have saved her
She was miscarrying at 17 weeks gestation, there was no way to save the dying foetus, but it still had a heartbeat, so the Catholic doctors refused to terminate the pregnancy, allowing septicaemia to develop and eventually kill her.
Conroy backs down on internet filter
It’s good to see Stephen Conroy finally face the facts: his filter proposal was about as clever as equipping a blue whale to pursue a vulture.
Argument is the human condition, but public argument is not (until the Internet arrived)
A fascinating long post from Clay Shirky on the information age’s transformation of the media landscape, via @Colvinius who referenced it as part of his 2012 Andrew Olle Media Lecture.
Dic abuse – prescriptivists vs descriptivists rematch – ‘misogyny’ definition edition
When you get to my age seeing the pearl-clutchers swoon angrily over dictionaries having the temerity to change something gets old, especially when it’s yet another round of people just showing that they don’t understand what lexicographers actually do.
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