As an antidote to the bile of Michelle Malkin (see post below) it was nice to come across this story courtesy of Michael Weholt in comments over at Making Light (quoted below in full). Despite Malkin’s pseudo-Christianity and bigotry, one… Read More ›
Month: July 2006
Malkin loves the coy
The repellent hate-screeder Michelle Malkin, who doesn’t allow comments to her blog posts (thus it’s not really a blog, IMO, just a brave-brave-Sir-Robin website) has a habit of putting up posts with ambivalent titles, popping in a few blockquotes or… Read More ›
Weekend flashback: more scifi shockers
It took some doing to try and come up with a more ridiculous scifi costume than last week’s effort, but then I had the inevitable eventual “oh yeah, Barbarella!” moment. The young Jane Fonda of course has an unfair advantage… Read More ›
Back on deck
I’ve had a bit of a lost week – one of those achey-breaky ‘flus with sore eyes meaning ‘puter time is not restful but is rather ennervating, so I’ve just been sleeping it off and makin sure I get the… Read More ›
Happy Birthday Mr Tog
Today my darling added another digit to the figure he puts in certain boxes on certain forms. He’s busy all day today with churchy stuff (he goes, I don’t, yes it used to be weird, now it’s no big deal),… Read More ›
Belatedly jumping on a White bandwagon
The lovely and talented Laura, over at Sarsaparilla, took a flensing scalpel to those silly sausages and their Patrick White stunt over at The Australian. She has challenged readers to show them what’s what by reading and enjoying a Patrick… Read More ›
Landmark
In a few weeks’ time, Voyager 1 will be 100 AU from the Sun. (An AU, or Astronomical Unit, is the distance from Earth to the Sun). Voyager was launched nearly 29 years ago. Voyager 1 has flown by Jupiter… Read More ›
Weekend flashback: 70s scifi boots
This is a shot from the 1974 John Boorman directed film Zardoz, which is apparently an achievement in the annals of bad cinema surpassed only by such dys-masterpieces as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and the Ed Wood ouvre. I… Read More ›
Go there
Jill at Feministe on anti-abortion extremism and disingenuous rhetoric. Long but compelling. Barista looks at the Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon situation and the Australian reaction. Echidne of the Snakes examines the partisan demonisation of secularism in the USA. Blogger on the Cast-Iron Balcony… Read More ›
We’re doing it all ourselves, y’know
I got a bit ranty in a comments thread over at LP today, but managed to epitomise some arguments much better than I often manage to do, so I thought I’d excerpt them over here as well. The blockquotes are… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 