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• When a “no entries were found” search result is a relief

  By tigtog on 2015-01-04 • ( 6 )

  

  Pseudonymous author Avicenna Last of the blog “A Million Gods” at FreeThought Blogs (FTB) has been discovered to be a serial plagiarist, and removed from the FTB network as a result. I did a search to check on whether I’d ever referenced one of his posts here on Hoyden, in case I needed to triple-check it for proper source attribution.

  Like many others, I am sad and disappointed and angry about this.

• Today in Wikiwalks: Rational Wiki’s Pseudolaws section.

  By tigtog on 2015-01-03 • ( 5 )

  

  I started reading about the “freeman on the land” concept because of that grandiose Manbook misogynist. From the looks of what else is documented in Rational Wiki’s pseudolaw section, I might not emerge for several days. I knew people are strange, but wow.

• Media Circus: Best/Worst of The Year Edition

  By tigtog on 2014-12-31 • ( 2 )

  

  The lists are appearing.

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• December Solstice

  By tigtog on 2014-12-22

  

  This post was scheduled to go up at the exact minute of today’s solstice, but Things Happened.

• Media Circus: Sydney Siege Edition

  By tigtog on 2014-12-19 • ( 18 )

  

  It’s been a bad week here in Sydney, a bad week in Peshawar, and news from the rest of the world has mostly not been great, either.

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By tigtog on 2014-12-13 • ( 23 )

  

  Today’s otters are a blast from the past – a repost of our very first otterday post featuring fuzzy Asian Small-Clawed otter pups from the Blackpool Zoo.

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

• Hands up anybody now who’d trust Rolling Stone to tell their story?

  By tigtog on 2014-12-10 • ( 4 )

  

  “We’ve constructed seemingly infinite incentives for victims to keep silent (you drank too much, you wore too little, you’ll destroy the family, you’ll ruin the fun, your entire sexual history will be dredged and questioned and vivisected … in front of your grandma) and pretty much no compelling reasons to report, nor functional support systems in the aftermath.”

• Media Circus: Recent Parliamentary Shenanigans Edition

  By tigtog on 2014-12-09 • ( 15 )

  

  What’s been your most/least favourite political moment lately? Will an unelectable stick become the next Liberal PM?

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Blog downtime

  By tigtog on 2014-10-27

  

  The blog is doing horrible things to some poor sad servers.

• Media Circus: RIP Gough Whitlam Edition

  By tigtog on 2014-10-21 • ( 6 )

  

  The giants who strode the political landscape of my youth are toppling one by one, leaving only gnats swarming over the entrails of serious political principles while Big Money shakes shiny things at us all, politicians very much included.

  Contrast the government’s war on welfare with the rhetoric surrounding critics of the increasing wealth gap as advocates of “class warfare”. Hmm.

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?