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• Sonoma County demonstrates why I support marriage equality

  By tigtog on 2010-04-20 • ( 15 )

  Because for too many people in the world nothing less than marriage confers any domestic partner’s rights at all, no matter what other legal “protections” and arrangements are put into place.

• Feminism destroyed chivalry nyahnyah nyahnyah nyahnyah

  By tigtog on 2010-04-19 • ( 20 )

  Bingo, anyone? Don’t you just feel awfully cheated and played for a fool by feminism now?

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 19, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-04-19 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Stand by your tweets – “Yesterday, coincidentally, the US National Library of Congress announced it will… Read More ›

• Endangered Sunday: Wedge-Tailed Eagle

  By tigtog on 2010-04-18 • ( 5 )

  also, allegedly, known as the Eaglehawk, although that’s not a term I ever heard as a youngster. Official Status: Threatened (and Endangered in Tasmania)

• “Confessional” compositions and Dudes

  By tigtog on 2010-04-18 • ( 12 )

  Anyhoo, I thought it might be fun to just have a thread listing all the songs from male performers/songwriters that draw on personal experiences and which have not been widely described as “confessional” or “diarising”.

• Toby Ziegler responds to this week in the blogosphere

  By tigtog on 2010-04-17

  Josh Lyman is obviously playing “The Blogosphere” here, and of course, it’s actually every week in the blogosphere. Probably every week ever in the history of humanity, actually.

• Friday Hoyden: Jane Goodall

  By tigtog on 2010-04-16 • ( 6 )

  But what Goodall discovered made biologists, psychologists and philosophers look more closely at the great apes and their similarities to humans, provoking redefinitions of exactly what it meant to be human, and raising the question of just how far back in pre-history should paleo-anthropologists be looking for clues to the development of human behaviours.

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 16, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-04-16 • ( 4 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Gizmodo: "Baby's First Cubicle: The Most Depressing Toy Ever?" – one for the WTF file Stupid… Read More ›

• Another gutless conservative deletes his Twitter account

  By tigtog on 2010-04-16 • ( 18 )

  here, preserved in a screencap, is Australian uni student Nick Sowden calling Barack Obama a monkey during the much-publicised interview with Kerry O’Brien on the 7:30 report on Wednesday night:

• Oh Why Not?

  By tigtog on 2010-04-15 • ( 2 )

  

  When someone on Facebook shares a link to The Avengers 1965 series intro, why wouldn’t I pass it on here? Although I ended up watching some variations and picking my favourite – a typical title sequence for Series 4 that also includes the closing titles.