The results have been declared! Image: A smiling Kelly Vincent, Dignity for Disability candidate, with a blue flower in her hair and holding a bouquet of pink roses, sits next to former leader of the Australian Democrats Natasha Stott-Despoja. South… Read More ›
Year: 2010
Thursday Cheezburger: The Unquiet Dead
Continuing the supernatural theme, this week we have: The Unquiet Dead! Post your own favourite not-quite-dead LOLcat here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct… Read More ›
Monbiot mistakes the specific for the general
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.
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 ›
Hoyden About Town 