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Month: March 2014
#AWW Book Review: Questions of Travel
#AWW2014 Book Review: Questions of Travel by Michelle de Krester.
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?
Friday Hoyden: Hortense Mancini
Hortense Mancini was married at fifteen to one of the richest men in Europe, who turned out to be an obsessive, violent, controlling abuser. She found a way to escape, and to live the rest of her life with an exuberance that would be difficult to match.
Give a Voice to Harassment Victims: A legal fund for sexual harassment victim Karen Stollznow
Those of you who are regular followers/lurkers of the atheoskeptosphere probably know about this fundraiser for Karen Stollznow’s legal costs by now, but I’m signal-boosting it for the record …
Sotomayor asks a question about the consequences of corporate religion
…and the anti-abortion lobby is cross that she interrupted an attorney (and compared abortioncontraception to other medical procedures – in a case about medical insurance).
Media Circus: Don’t Look At The Policies Behind The Knighthoods edition
So our drearly beloathed Prime Minister wants to get a gong when he retires from politics.
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
Sunday Singalong: Footloose Nostalgia
It’s 25thirty years since Footloose came out, and Kevin Bacon’s still got the moves (and Jimmy Fallon has a gift for cheesy setups).
Cloaking device
I spoke to a guy in a long coffee queue to point out there was another, unused machine 3 feet away, and even bearing news of speedy caffeine, and wearing a bright red dress, I was apparently invisible.
A woman at a tech event, unaccompanied by any men, is just too unlikely to be believed.
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?
Hoyden About Town 