This strikes me as totally the wrong end of the stick, as if it reveals an attitude towards FoI in principle rather than these vexatious FoI requests in particular.
Month: April 2010
Wednesday Warm Fuzzies: Fully Epic Rapsody
It has now been 102 long days that Ive been here in the hospital all up, isolated with a case of Multi-Drug Resistant TB…. Yep… Still going… Is it normal if you want to eat your own leg?
My Easter Post on The Drum
Little did I know that leading churchmen around the nation were going to dedicate their Easter messages this year to painting atheism as mad, bad and dangerous to know.
Second Chance Prom for Constance McMillen
Which she wouldn’t need if she didn’t live in a town full of sanctimonious liars. Congratulations to Fulton, Mississippi for the place you now hold in the annals of bigotry.
ObTrollWrangling: On Deserving New Chances
The problem with Paul’s activities is him presenting that persona as having had fictional abuse problems that he knows are common shared histories amongst the group of women he is contacting, and asking those people for advice as if he is a real life troubled young woman. Anyone who doesn’t see that this is creepy as fuck needs to spend a great deal of thinking time on the matter.
Latest from WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder
The so-called weapons that the gunship soldiers thought they saw were all in fact cameras. They shot to death a group of people walking down the street, and then slaughtered people with children coming to help the wounded, just because some of them had cameras.
Virtual Traveling: Stourhead, Wiltshire
Stourhead is an absolutely stunning landscape garden set in a river valley in Wiltshire which has been artfully dammed and diverted to make for a lovely meandering promenade with plenty of spots for sculptures and architectural follies to be scattered – it was one of the first gardens to be created according to the principles of the English Landscape Movement. There are also more rambling woodland walks full of enormous rhododendrons and other flowering shrubs amongst the trees.
Femmostroppo Reader – April 5, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Feminist Intersection: Contemporary feminism isn't necessarily anti-racist | Bitch Magazine – “Now I’ve got to give… Read More ›
Endangered Sunday: Bilbies
Kids around Australia know the bilby because of a successful program begun over 10 years ago to encourage people to give chocolate bilbies to kids at Easter instead of chocolate bunnies
Perfect, just perfect
A school and the community around them made a peaceful counter-protest to the Westboro Baptist Church’s demonstration against the school for actively promoting not just tolerance but loving acceptance of people who have attributes outside the narrow lines of what Fred Phelps deems acceptable.
Hoyden About Town 