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• Quote Of The Day: Think Of All The Supervillains

  By tigtog on 2014-06-06 • ( 1 )

  

  I love the Bad Chart Thursday posts on Skepchick, which mock various exercises in unjustifed extrapolation from datasets compromised by unacknowledged confounding factors or otherwise lacking rigor. This quote comes from the latest:

• Signal Boosting: Mass Closure of Women’s Refuges in NSW

  By tigtog on 2014-06-03 • ( 3 )

  

  40 years of women’s rights will be undone in June 2014 when many of Sydney’s specialist women’s refuges are forced to close. Under the NSW Government’s new tenders, women-only services were not allowed to tender for women-only services.

• Media Circus: Trollumnist Steals The Limelight Edition

  By tigtog on 2014-06-03 • ( 19 )

  

  Rhymes with jolt.

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

• Nugget of Awesome: Sex And Love Aren’t Earned

  By tigtog on 2014-05-29 • ( 25 )

  

  [Content Note for linked material: Isla Vista mass murders, misogyny, gun culture]
  What I think would be helpful for a lot of men to understand (women too probably) is that sex and love aren’t earned. Can’t be earned. They are a matter of grace from the other person. And, because they can’t be earned, whether you are getting sex or love is not a reliable signifier of your value as a human being and aren’t a metric by which one person should be compared to another.

• Media Circus: Demonising Students Edition

  By tigtog on 2014-05-21 • ( 25 )

  

  Mr Pyne told the ABC’s Lateline that the AFP were concerned about his and the Prime Minister’s safety should they attend the event in Geelong.

  He also said the Prime Minister took the decision “so that students can get on with their studies unmolested by the Socialist Alternative”.

  Oh no, it’s Reds Under The Beds time again! What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Today in Double Standards

  By tigtog on 2014-05-16

  

  I was having a chat about exactly this sort of negativity regarding competent/assertive/expert women this evening: see also classic xkcd on the other side of the coin.

• Sprog The Elder turned 21 today

  By tigtog on 2014-05-13 • ( 6 )

  

  We had an intimate family dinner out at a pizza joint in Newtown, where the sprogs had their first ever hipster drinks served in jamjars.

• Media Circus: Budget 2014 Edition

  By tigtog on 2014-05-13 • ( 32 )

  

  The ABC website has a handy special Budget summary page that will be updated as the announcements roll in. Meanwhile, First Dog In The Moon makes some points about our nation’s hugely expensive mistreatment of refugees and how public servant redundancies which get replaced by more expensive consultants don’t actually help the sacred bottom line.

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

• Missing Mum on Mothers’ Day

  By tigtog on 2014-05-11 • ( 11 )

  

  To everybody else who is missing their mother today, I feel for you.

• 12 Bar Bliss

  By tigtog on 2014-05-07 • ( 9 )

  

  It’s so much bloody fun.