Seriously, the campaign becomes more bizarre every day. Any predictions?
Day: 2010-08-05
Spot Big Tobacco’s Contradiction
“Plain packaging is not a proven policy,” she said. “There’s no credible evidence that this policy will stop people smoking, that it will stop kids, young people, taking up cigarette smoking.
Sydney, Australia feminist blogger meet-up on 29 August!
Announcing a meet-up for feminist blog folk in the Sydney region. You don’t need to write a blog yourself or be a regular commenter or anything, it’s just an invitation to come and hang out with some like-minded folk for a couple of hours.
Thursday Cheezburger: Odd One Out
One of these things is not like the other ones…
Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.
Peeve: it’s RAISES/RAISING the question, dangnabbit
Unless one has made some detailed study of the field of rhetoric, and the use and misuse of logical fallacies therein, one is almost certainly not using the phrase “begs/begging the question” correctly. Yes, world – UR DOIN IT RONG.
Hoyden About Town 