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• Exclusively breastfed baby denied insurance unless he goes on a diet

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-12 • ( 14 )

  La Vida Locavore talks about a case in the USA where a fully-breastfed four month old infant has been denied insurance for being “obese”. The baby is on the 99th percentile for height and weight. They don’t say on which… Read More ›

• Telegram to TABs, on Spoon Theory

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-10 • ( 34 )

  [Cross-posted to FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward) Message to TABs (Temporarily ABled folk): Spoon Theory? It’s not yours. It doesn’t describe the sleepy feeling you get at the end of a long day, nor the feeling you… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-10 • ( 10 )

  Reminder: Hoyden About Town has moved to http://www.hoydenabouttown.com. Please update your blogrolls and bookmarks! Please also re-subscribe, to make sure you are using the new Feedburner feed. Enough of the cute and furry! Today’s otter-related snippet comes via Neatorama. “Sea… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: The 6th Virtue, Hope

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-08 • ( 6 )

  We’re on to the penultimate of the Seven Virtues: Hope. Winner: Runners-up, again with school holiday bonus LOLs!

• Open letter to Feministing – co-signed

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-07 • ( 16 )

  An Open Letter to Feministing on ableism and disability issues. (And a general rec for Meloukhia’s blog, which is a powerhouse of feministy delight.) The Open Letter has been co-signed by many, including over at the Feministing Community [Headdesk warning… Read More ›

• Nestle Aus manager calls critics irrational, biased

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-07 • ( 12 )

  Complete with the infantilising headline we’ve come to expect from Fairfax media, Asher Moses has written up the ongoing #nestlefamily incident: “Mummy bloggers spit the dummy over Nestle’s spoilt milk” First, Nestlé hung its bloggers out to dry, leaving them… Read More ›

• School holiday blogging: Bees on lavender

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-06 • ( 6 )

  Taken yesterday.

• Imaginary what now? Terra nullius and the Scouting movement

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-05 • ( 13 )

  After seeing the camping strips in Calvin & Hobbes, the Lad wanted me to look into local Cub Scouts. Y’all know I’m not too keen on the theist and heterosexist (and etc) aspects of Scouts, but I went to have… Read More ›

• Quickhits: We are dying

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-04 • ( 11 )

  Lancaster Online: Crash injures man on mobility scooter David Bair, 72, of Ephrata, was driving his personal mobility scooter southbound along North Church Street around 11:30 a.m. when the accident occurred. […] A southbound car driven by John Risser, 81,… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-03 • ( 14 )

  Today’s otter image comes via Project Gutenberg. It’s a rendition of an otter skull, from Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon, Robert A. Sterndale, 1884. The author’s introduction makes it clear that he believes there had been… Read More ›