Hot on the heels of the Hoohaa Monologues and the suspension of high school girls for saying “vagina” in an excerpt from The Vagina Monologues, Australia finally has a new form of contraceptive device available. The contraceptive ring is finally… Read More ›
Month: March 2007
Introducing Lauredhel
I’ve decided to add a co-blogger to the roster. We’ve been meeting up at various junctions in the intertubes for about ten years now, and she’s one of my favourite invisible friends. She’s had her own livejournal for ages, and… Read More ›
For my friends in academia
Parody student evaluations for Socrates, from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Hemlock Available in the Faculty Lounge Socrates is a real drag, I don’t know how in hell he ever got tenure. He makes students feel bad by criticizing them… Read More ›
419: They haven’t forgotten me after all
It’s been so long since I received a solicitation from a 419 scammer in my email. It’s made me come over all nostalgic for the good old days of alt.folklore.urban, and analysing minute changes in these scam-mails as they got… Read More ›
Sometimes the Onion really can do satire
Area Pagan Dreading Big Family Vernal Equinox Celebration Actress’ Abortion Written Into TV Show h/t Lightcastle, who linked to the first article
I can’t believe I missed Pi Day!
I haven’t read any of the “geeking it up” sites in my Google-reader this week, because I have been busy. If I had, I’m sure one of them would have mentioned the nerdalicious celebration of Pi Day on March 14th…. Read More ›
A lode, a veritable trove, of anti-feminist misogyny
The entitlement! The paranoia! The simplistic stereotyping! The recitation of factoids with no cites whatever! Every single post I have read on this blog would be a full week’s worth of discussion classes and an essay assignment in any Women’s… Read More ›
Hugh Thompson Day
Today is the anniversary of the heroism of Hugh Thompson and his helicopter crew as they saved noncombatant Vietnamese villagers of My Lai from murderous US soldiers engaged in a massacre. I posted about Thompson last year: Are you a… Read More ›
Friday Furry: Malaysian kitten and monkey pals
You may have seen these photos, or at least some of them, before, but they’re so gorgeous I’m sure you won’t mind seeing them again. I’m only posting thumbnails because the images are copyrighted to Kaz Campbell, so click on… Read More ›
She had a fondness for gardenias
A friend of a friend (FOAF) really wants to know the source for this quote. (Actually, sie only knew the first sentence as per the title above and the rest has been scoured from the Internets by other FOAFs). “She… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 