Flattering appreciation or skin-crawling creepiness? UPDATE: belated hat-tip to Alas, a blog. Anyone who enjoyed this should try another of Ampersand’s recommendations, Mad Melancholic Feminista: Sex and Gender in Firefly and Battlestar GalacticaAnd don’t web networks operate in funny ways?… Read More ›
Month: May 2006
Mommy’s a Republican? – nooooo!
A mailing list I’m on is having way to much fun captioning this, so I had to share: Snark away.
Beaconsfield Rollercoaster
Todd Russell (L) and Brant Webb walk from the mine lift after being rescued.Ian Waldie/Getty Images from Melbourne Herald Sun Beaconsfield woke at 5am to the pealing of a church bell that had not been rung for decades to let… Read More ›
Fetal Brain Development: Myths and Disinformation
In her discussion on the NYT article I blogged earlier, Jill of Feministe says: An interesting thing about growing up and living in the United States for your entire life, as I have, is that you really do believe all… Read More ›
ALP going forward with decriminalisation platform
As I blogged about last week: if the ALP wins the Victorian election, Victoria will join Western Australia, Tasmania and the ACT in decriminalising abortion entirely by removing abortion from the Crimes Act, placing all regulation of this particular surgical… Read More ›
NYT: the anti-contraceptive movement
There’s a growing trend amongst religious conservatives, not just Catholics, to inveigh against all forms of family-planning, not just abortion. It’s worthwhile for Australians to examine the rhetoric of the anti-choice contra-contraception crowd in the USA, because it’s their religiously… Read More ›
Miss Peggy Lee – girl/woman/dame
Having joined iPodistan a few weeks ago, I’ve been contentedly ripping CDs and uploading the songs and rediscovering some old favourites that have been moldering down the bottom of the CD pile for a while (not one of those Virgos… Read More ›
Friday Random Ten – boys’ week edition
Gypsy Kings – Zorba The GreekMoonshadow – Cat stevensSupermoves – OverseerSweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd SkynyrdThe Masochism Tango – Tom LehrerI was only 19 – Red GumWe’ve Got Tonight – Bob SegerKinghts in White Satin – Moody BluesWalk Like an… Read More ›
Never been a big fan of scrotal sacs
although I’ve been fond of bits attached to them every now and then, and a certain pair certainly came in useful in providing the necessary outsourced material I needed to produce two children. Generall though, scrotums lack a certain aesthetic… Read More ›
USA: of course Viagra’s a medical necessity
… but we won’t cover that frivolous mammogram you neurotic women you. Words fail me.
Hoyden About Town 