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• Mandatory Australian Internet Censorship: Conroy’s Bait and Switch

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-17 • ( 21 )

  [Edit 24 Oct 08: The current post on this issue can be found here: “Wild claims hysteria enthusiastic commentary on internet censorship: Ludlam in Senate Estimates”] Australia’s Labor government is now set on instituting mandatory across-the-board internet censorship for every… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-16 • ( 4 )

  I couldn’t split the runner-up tie today, so here are two: See no evil, Speak no evil, Understand no evil You don’t understand! He’s EVIL when you’re not watching!

• Third Debate Thoughts, and Video of McCain’s air-scarequotes “health of the mother”

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-16 • ( 31 )

  My first impression thoughts of the third presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, mostly grabbed from my twitter feed: – McCain choked on addressing Obama as “Senator Obama” at the opening, unless there was a glitch in the… Read More ›

• Victim-blaming by the Queensland government

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-13 • ( 4 )

  The Queensland Government has taken a leaf out of ALAC New Zealand’s book, launching a new victim-blaming campaign. The “Safer Drinking Cultures” programme aims to address binge drinking among young people. Unfortunately, they’ve decided to go with the old saw… Read More ›

• Midwifery-led care, the AMA, and the Cochrane Collaboration: who do you believe?

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-12 • ( 6 )

  The Australian Medical Association on midwifery-led care in maternity services, September 2008: “[…] midwifery services were expanded without any reference to the medical profession and without any clear evidence base around the impact on safety and clinical outcomes for patients…. Read More ›

• Nanofic meme: Do you remember…?

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-12 • ( 23 )

  I know, I know, it’s a meme, but it is a fun, creative and participatory one. It’s been going around livejournal lately. If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now,(even if we don’t speak often… Read More ›

• Mount Franklin Breast Cancer ads. Let’s start a Brown Colon Cancer Awareness campaign.

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-11 • ( 37 )

  Oh, for fuck’s sake. The latest in the Mmm, Sexy Pink Breast Cancer! Save The Boobies Awareness sweepstakes comes from Mount Franklin, purveyors of pointless, wasteful, plastic-ridden, environmentally unfriendly bottled water. They’ve been doing the pink lids for a while,… Read More ›

• Otterday! And open thread

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-11 • ( 23 )

  These bronze otters were snapped by Jason Pratt on flickr, at the Pittsburgh Zoo. 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… Read More ›

• Passive voice watch: invisible rapist in Sussex

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-09 • ( 12 )

  The Beeb has got a nasty case of the Invisible Rapists today, in this report: “Teenager is raped in club toilets”. A 19-year-old woman was raped in the men’s toilets in a nightclub, Sussex Police revealed. The teenager was attacked… Read More ›

• Ladies’ Handbook: On quacks, hormones, abstinence, and the sexual double standard

  By lauredhel on 2008-10-09 • ( 10 )

  Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series! The initial post is here. This instalment is part three of Chapter IV, “Sex Physiology and Hygiene”. (Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.) But, again, in youth as in childhood; and, indeed,… Read More ›