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• Saturday Night Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-27 • ( 2 )

• Fong Gonged

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-25 • ( 1 )

  The most highly paid civil servant in the country, chaplain and footy bigwig Neale Fong, has fallen off his golden Health Department perch. Fongy has been under investigation by the Crime and Corruption Commission for some months in relation to… Read More ›

• Featured search term of the week

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-25 • ( 2 )

  Do any bloggers or website owners here not obsessively look at Referer strings? I’m fascinated by them, as you may have gathered by previous posts “Naughty girls down under. With a bullet.” and “Girls in white gumboots and fat chicks… Read More ›

• 52nd Carnival of Feminists

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-24

  The 52nd Carnival of Feminists is up at Figure: Demystifying The Feminist Mystique.

• Clicks, Pics, ‘n’ Politics: Assortment

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-22 • ( 6 )

  A big assortment of pictures, video, and reading today.

• Hippocampus-blamin’: Beavis in Charge

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-19 • ( 10 )

  So Troy Buswell, the not-so-shiny new leader of the Liberal* Party in Western Australia, has got a pretty serious case of foot-in-mouth disease. You may remember Troy from such episodes as “Snapping open the Bra of a Labor Party Staffer… Read More ›

• “You’re such a buzzkill, snopes.”

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-18 • ( 6 )

  A little Friday video divertissement: What happens when Google’s parents leave town for the weekend. [NSFW.]

• Wahmbulance to the white courtesy phone: sociological concern-trolling

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-18 • ( 11 )

  Sociology Article of the Week: John H. Goldthorpe, Michelle Jackson, The British Journal of Sociology 58 (2007) (4), 525–546 “Intergenerational class mobility in contemporary Britain: political concerns and empirical findings” Couched in pseudo-rationalist arms-length language, this paper reads as a… Read More ›

• PoCo A PoCo: Fifty Two Acts of Political Correctness

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-17 • ( 13 )

  Babalon-93 has suggested that I expand my previous post, “Words Mean Stuff: thorny language”, into a Fifty Two Something series: 52 Something Choose something you would really like to do on a weekly basis and commit to sharing it with… Read More ›

• Scrotes Oot F’t’ Lads!

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-16 • ( 7 )

  [image source] Latest message from the pink corporate machine: Go hairless and wave your breasts for booby cancer! Booby Wall Canada is a project in which women can upload pictures of their breasts for the cause. No, I can’t figure… Read More ›