Need to vent? Larvatus Prodeo has posted another in our irregular series of Open Condemnation threads (these are non-stoush threads, meant to amuse, OK?). My favourite so far: I condemn snooty MSM op-ed types that couldn’t think for themselves if… Read More ›
Month: January 2008
Clicks, Pics, ‘n’ Politics: Assortment
A big assortment of pictures, video, and reading today.
Brainstorming alert
I need some input on an FAQ on “rape apology” for Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog. I want to make sure that I cover all the bases and include lots of links. Any suggestions gratefully considered.
Lefties probably tie their shoelaces wrong, too
This piece struck a chord with me regarding some of the frequent epithets hurled at “lefties” on LP especially: why have conservatives frequently insulted the type of food (sushi-eating), type of coffee (latte-drinking), or type of alcoholic beverages (wine and… Read More ›
Mondayitis
School holidays continue to fog my brain. Methinks I have a touch of the writers’ block. There’s been a lot of stuff about 1968 around, seeing as apparently many journalists laboriously counted their fingers and toes twice and realised that… Read More ›
Hippocampus-blamin’: Beavis in Charge
So Troy Buswell, the not-so-shiny new leader of the Liberal* Party in Western Australia, has got a pretty serious case of foot-in-mouth disease. You may remember Troy from such episodes as “Snapping open the Bra of a Labor Party Staffer… Read More ›
“You’re such a buzzkill, snopes.”
A little Friday video divertissement: What happens when Google’s parents leave town for the weekend. [NSFW.]
Wahmbulance to the white courtesy phone: sociological concern-trolling
Sociology Article of the Week: John H. Goldthorpe, Michelle Jackson, The British Journal of Sociology 58 (2007) (4), 525–546 “Intergenerational class mobility in contemporary Britain: political concerns and empirical findings” Couched in pseudo-rationalist arms-length language, this paper reads as a… Read More ›
LOLcats and flying things
Summer in Sydney – I can relate.
Well, there goes Facebook then
Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous. In other news, the fossilised remains of a R.O.U.S. have been discovered in Uruguay. Image Source: CNN In other other news, CNN seems to have sacked all employees with a smidgen of grammatical nous. H/T… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 