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• Second Chance Prom for Constance McMillen

  By tigtog on 2010-04-07 • ( 16 )

  Which she wouldn’t need if she didn’t live in a town full of sanctimonious liars. Congratulations to Fulton, Mississippi for the place you now hold in the annals of bigotry.

• ObTrollWrangling: On Deserving New Chances

  By tigtog on 2010-04-06 • ( 9 )

  The problem with Paul’s activities is him presenting that persona as having had fictional abuse problems that he knows are common shared histories amongst the group of women he is contacting, and asking those people for advice as if he is a real life troubled young woman. Anyone who doesn’t see that this is creepy as fuck needs to spend a great deal of thinking time on the matter.

• Latest from WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder

  By tigtog on 2010-04-06 • ( 4 )

  The so-called weapons that the gunship soldiers thought they saw were all in fact cameras. They shot to death a group of people walking down the street, and then slaughtered people with children coming to help the wounded, just because some of them had cameras.

• Virtual Traveling: Stourhead, Wiltshire

  By tigtog on 2010-04-06 • ( 3 )

  Stourhead is an absolutely stunning landscape garden set in a river valley in Wiltshire which has been artfully dammed and diverted to make for a lovely meandering promenade with plenty of spots for sculptures and architectural follies to be scattered – it was one of the first gardens to be created according to the principles of the English Landscape Movement. There are also more rambling woodland walks full of enormous rhododendrons and other flowering shrubs amongst the trees.

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 5, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-04-05 • ( 5 )

  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. Feminist Intersection: Contemporary feminism isn't necessarily anti-racist | Bitch Magazine – “Now I’ve got to give… Read More ›

• Endangered Sunday: Bilbies

  By tigtog on 2010-04-04

  Kids around Australia know the bilby because of a successful program begun over 10 years ago to encourage people to give chocolate bilbies to kids at Easter instead of chocolate bunnies

• Perfect, just perfect

  By tigtog on 2010-04-03 • ( 4 )

  A school and the community around them made a peaceful counter-protest to the Westboro Baptist Church’s demonstration against the school for actively promoting not just tolerance but loving acceptance of people who have attributes outside the narrow lines of what Fred Phelps deems acceptable.

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 3, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-04-03

  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. Breaking: Victorian women liked sex! – “As with a restrictive corset worn for far too long,… Read More ›

• Dragon trailer doesn’t do it justice

  By tigtog on 2010-04-02 • ( 11 )

  

  How To Train Your Dragon is the best family entertainment film since Monsters Inc– pure feel-good escapism.

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 1, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-04-01 • ( 3 )

  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. No True Scotsman – “t was not surprising that the group recently arrested and charged with… Read More ›