I now has new fast internet connection – feel properly connected again! There was also some strange blue thing above the clouds this morning, and a bright yellow thing – anybody know what they are?
Year: 2010
Femmostroppo Reader – June 6, 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. Linkspam: Unpacking the invisible knapsack Straight privilege edition – Plenty of reading to chew on But… Read More ›
Not quite so angry now…
…but still astonished and appalled that Sam Stosur could make it to the French Open final but there was no news about it on the morning chat shows this morning. Granted we were only watching for about half an hour… Read More ›
25th Down Under Feminist Carnival – We’ve Gone Silver!
The TWENTY-FIFTH Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is out, and it’s a doozy!
Otterday! And Open Thread.
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 to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
Quickhit: It’s going to Ruin us
The new Mining Tax – we’ve heard it all before
A month of detention without review
Imagine a world in which you could be held by a government agency, against your will, for up to a month.
If you have a mental illness, that is now a real possibility.
(Not) Werner Herzog reads Madeline
Or, as I have immediately renamed it in my head, Semiotics of Soubrettes.
Discrimination is only discrimination if you end up being sacked
The study apparently says that many people with MS put off telling their bosses (and so receiving appropriate accommodations at work, which might help them to manage their MS) because they are afraid they will be discriminated against.
Dr Simmons says that fear is unfounded, because “only 15 per cent of people [left] their jobs because they were sacked”.
Good news, sad news, obOzsport news
Rise, Sir Patrick Stewart. Farewell, Rue McLanahan. C’mon, Sam Stosur, c’mon.
Hoyden About Town 