[Spoilers for season 5 Desperate Housewives, through episode 18] There has been some absolutely abysmal fat politics on Desperate Housewives this season, mostly centring around Juanita Solis (Gabby’s daughter) – see Random Babble for more – and on Gabby’s crash… Read More ›
Year: 2009
Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 29, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed BREACHING THE POLITICAL BINARY March 28, 2009 – brain food Friday Blogaround March 28, 2009 – more linky-links Bilerico goes dark: What happened? March 28, 2009 – another progressive political website… Read More ›
Last Minute Reminder for Sydney Hoydenizens: Autumn Drinkies this Sunday!
Don’t forget lunch and drinks this Sunday (March 29th) for Sydney Hoydenizens — we’ll be at The Warren View Hotel (2 Stanmore Rd, Enmore — the link contains a Whereis map) from 12noon onwards, in the beer garden. I’ll have… Read More ›
Otterday! And open thread.
Just spotted on Zooborns: these Asian small-clawed river otter twins, born at Seaworld San Diego. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want… Read More ›
Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 28, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed The rape myth in action March 28, 2009 – “Because eye and body contact and not telling someone to stop is consent to penetrative sex, right? “ Pregnancy as public property… Read More ›
Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 27, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed Single and knocked up March 27, 2009 – magazine tells only the stories that serve a romantically conservative agenda regarding unplanned pregnancies Where My Wild Things At? March 27, 2009 –… Read More ›
Sub-editing fail
AKA How the addition of a single word results in a headline that doesn’t provoke the Laura Norder crowd to clutch their pearls.
Assuming, of course, that one doesn’t want to confect a controversy via a plausibly deniable misrepresentation.
Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 26, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed Information Reservoirs (or) How I Keep Track of a Large Amount of Incoming Information March 26, 2009 – Some good tips for organisation in the digital age Website page titles –… Read More ›
“Hon, it was just an AK-47!”
Just a quickhit as I’m spoon-missing today: The Anchorage Daily News reports on a multiple-rape, assault, and murder trial underway in court this week. * Sexual violence trigger warnings.*
Censor board hacked
The Australian Government’s Classification board website has been hacked. The text:
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Somebody Think of the Children.
A bit juvenile? Nos. Not particularly helpful? Sure. Illegal? Yup.
But I can’t help but have a leetle soft spot lurking in my heart for humorous, non-destructive civil disobedience in the face of bulldozing authoritarianism.
Hoyden About Town 