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• Belated Thursday Cheezburger – The 5th Virtue, Faith

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-02 • ( 16 )

  Huge apologies for my failure to post a Thursday Cheezburger yesterday! School holidays has me all in a muddle, schedule-wise. To compensate, I have bonus Honourable Mentions today. It’s also our monthly Delurking Day! If you’ve been reading along, give… Read More ›

• What’s missing from local government election blurbs

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-01 • ( 7 )

  I’m looking through my local government voting papers. Issues that are on the radar in the candidate blurbs: – A healthy lifestyle for our children – beautification of streetscapes – Make the city environmentally friendly – encourage a sense of… Read More ›

• Nestlé moves from obfuscation to outright lies

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-01 • ( 14 )

  This seems a good point to start a new post. Many Nestle-bloggers seem to be continuing to believe that by taking their questions straight to the company, they will get honest replies, and will clear up all these decades of… Read More ›

• Upcoming Press Club: Dr Rhonda Galbally on the “Shut Out” Report

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-01 • ( 2 )

  Don’t miss Dr Rhonda Galbally on the National Press Club next week! Wednesday 7th October, ABC, 12:30 pm. Excerpt from the NPC website: Dr Galbally will present evidence from Shut Out – a report recently released by the National People… Read More ›

• The Polanski “morals issue” – just so we’re all on the same page.

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-30 • ( 35 )

  Further to Tigtog’s quickhit on Polanski, can we just clear up one point? This is not a shades-of-grey issue. This is not a “Romeo & Juliet” statutory rape case. This is not a “barely legal” case. This is not a… Read More ›

• Carnivals! And DUFC roster.

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-30 • ( 6 )

  Chally at Zero at the Bone brings the The Fifth Carnival of Feminists to the world. Check it out! We’re also in the last couple of days for submissions to the next and seventeenth Down Under Feminists Carnival , which… Read More ›

• #nestlefamily: fobbing off Nestle chocolate slavery critique with Oompa Loompa “jokes”

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-30 • ( 88 )

  [I’m updating the links roundup at the end, in case you’re wondering why this post keeps popping up in your RSS feed.] For those not following the #nestlefamily hashtag on twitter, it’s about a current ‘conference’ being held by Nestle…. Read More ›

• Vag perfume – so you don’t have to fuck drunk anymore!

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-29 • ( 9 )

  The news is all over new “research” purporting to show that women lurrrrve to fuck drunk. Well, no, not quite. The research puports to show that women get drunk before sex because they “lack confidence in their bodies”: Almost half… Read More ›

• Awesome postracial society produces “Nigel the Crazy Noonga” yumour

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-26 • ( 3 )

  Another thing that’s not satire? A racist “Nigel the Crazy Noonga” ‘comedy’ routine, in which a Perth student ‘pranked’ businesses by putting on an Aboriginal English accent and acting in a stereotypical manner. This bigoted wannabe has developed a certain… Read More ›

• Twitter is TEOTWAWKI: Tech Culture Wars

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-26

  Tigtog has been blogging about how, contrary to Chicken Little predictions of electronic media being the end of literacy worldwide, children today are better writers than ever before. I was just watching this interview on “The Twitter Revolution”, Chuck Klosterman… Read More ›