Todays SMH: Sex, lies and advertising: DJs sues over child exploitation claims IN WHAT is believed to be a world first, David Jones begins a legal case tomorrow in which it is suing the left-leaning think tank the Australia Institute… Read More ›
Year: 2007
Weekend walking
So, mr tog and I decided, on our return from abroad, that we really should keep up this walking-around-with-the-kids habit we’d developed over the 4 weeks of sightseeing. Instead of just lounging around the house on Saturdays, we should get… Read More ›
Dear BBC, why is this picture part of this story?
What does this very well-muscled young man have to do with an exciting innovation in nanotechnology? Very little, but apparently because the new nanotech engine is similiar in size to our bodies’ own “engines” that make our muscles contract, BBC… Read More ›
Kinda proves his point
A Nigerian senator says he has received death threats after saying 90% of electoral candidates are corrupt.
My goodness, it’s a holiday pic
From the second half of my holiday time in Norway, when we were touring through the fjords and mountains between Oslo and Bergen: Originally uploaded to Flickr by tigitogs in the Norway set. This was taken the day after the… Read More ›
Nazanin saved from execution
Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi has been released! Nazanin is a young Iranian woman who was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death after she stabbed a would-be rapist in self-defence. [old tigtogblog post]. The international awareness raised by the Save… Read More ›
Some people certainly have a way with words
Commentor Sniper, who sadly appears to not have a blog, over at Pandagon in the thread to new contributor Sheelzebub’s first post, an evisceration of lazy sexist stereotyping of men as clueless slobs that women are obliged to rescue. OK,… Read More ›
Dignity in relationships
“During the course of my relationship with my husband I have not given space to conjugal conflict, even when his behaviour has been such as to merit it” “Now that my daughters have reached adulthood, the example of a woman… Read More ›
What good does blogging do?
Lauredhel, on Pondering power and resistance in response to attacks on the utility of feminist blogdom: Speech isn’t pointless. Speech isn’t inherently inferior to action. Speech doesn’t preclude action, and, what’s more, in the case of embedded often-impalpable power structures… Read More ›
One for the Janeites
Take the Quiz here! :: L I Z Z Y :: You are Elizabeth Bennet of Pride & Prejudice! You are intelligent, witty, and tremendously attractive. You have a good head on your shoulders, and oftentimes find yourself the lone… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 