Updated to add: if Haloscan eats your comments over at FF101 or you have any other problems commenting there, please leave your FAQ suggestions in comments to this post. Further Update: apparently many workplace networks block Haloscan. [more] I’ve just… Read More ›
Month: April 2007
McBrickWall on Mother’s Milk
Further to this post about a family being threatened with removal from a Ronald McDonald House for breastfeeding – in the eating area – with one twin post-op from brain surgery and exclusively on breastmilk – and with their banishment… Read More ›
Kurt is in heaven now
is what noted skeptical humanist, Kurt Vonnegut, wanted us all to say on his death, with a wry smile of unbelief. I don’t know much more to say than that, which is why I haven’t said anything for days since… Read More ›
The jolly good, totally safe for work PG trailer for 300
Puppies! Flowers! Caketown! Video under the fold:
Teachers and performance rates of pay
Pavlov’s Cat has an excellent post that lays out clearly and simply why attempting to shoehorn the complexity of educating children into some objective scale to grade teachers and pay them accordingly is ideology gone wild. More good posts about… Read More ›
How to be a bitch
Chris Clarke has posted a fabulous thing: How To Not Be an Asshole – A Guide For Men A long way into the very long thread which ensued, a regular antifeminist commenter, Infidel Sage, wrote: We eagerly await the companion… Read More ›
“Activist” judges: rape world round-up
A roundup of rape in court this week, in the USA, UK and Australia. Cut for rape and child sexual abuse triggers. Carson City, Nevada, USA: the Nevada Appeal report on a plea-bargain in a child pornography case involving possession… Read More ›
Rain on the strawberries
This is why we are content to celebrate a global festival of renewal and new life in the southern autumn, instead of in the spring. My heart feels buoyant. And this is why: Fresh, lush, beautiful rain on the strawberry… Read More ›
Anti-feminist-Bingo! A master-class in sexual entitlement.
Edit 18 Dec 2009: I’ve seen this referred to in quite a few places round the ‘sphere as “Antifeminist Troll Bingo”. It’s not called that here, and was never called that here, because that isn’t my sole or primary intention…. Read More ›
A parenting wake-up call
It’s always been my philosophy to provide both my kids with a comprehensive sexual health and safety education to supplement the already good school program in NSW. My parents did that for me, and it made me confident about demanding… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 