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• Denialism: it’s a tactic, not an ideology

  By tigtog on 2010-01-31 • ( 5 )

  Denialism (n): the practice of creating the illusion of debate when there is none.

• Today in ongoing double standards: pretexts for invasion

  By tigtog on 2010-01-30 • ( 4 )

  Especially when the lawyers from the British foreign Office testified that they had advised the war was illegal. Well, this makes it a war-crime, doesn’t it? So why aren’t Howard, Blair and Bush on trial in the Hague? Any other world leaders who have done the same thing have had had Western politicians baying for his blood, eg Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Or is it one rule for them, and another for us?

• And still they defend him

  By tigtog on 2010-01-29 • ( 14 )

  The doctor who first claimed that the MMR vaccine could cause autism has been found guilty of a series of misconduct charges, that include putting children through painful and unnecessary tests, a disciplinary hearing has ruled today.

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 27, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-27 • ( 2 )

  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. The Dangerous Desire to Adopt Haitian Babies – “Adoptee bloggers who also study adoption academically —… Read More ›

• Clumsy Mönty Pythøn gåg

  By tigtog on 2010-01-27 • ( 5 )

  An essential element in any self-respecting incendiary blog post‘s comments thread.

• Tautology Of The Day: cashing in on MJ dept

  By tigtog on 2010-01-26 • ( 2 )

  The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty Thanks for the vote of confidence in the average vocabulary, A&E.

• Opting Out

  By tigtog on 2010-01-26 • ( 36 )

  I’m not doing anything for Australia Day today, because I don’t want to be even potentially confused with one of the flag-waving jingoists.

• Thought of the Day, grand romantic gesture department

  By tigtog on 2010-01-26 • ( 30 )

  Gifts shouldn’t be about what you want someone else to do, or be.

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 25, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-25 • ( 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.

• Riley, Hilary, Leslie, Mackenzie, Lindsay, Taylor, Logan, Hunter

  By tigtog on 2010-01-25 • ( 42 )

  Once these names were all once considered manly names exuding virility. Yet every one of these traditionally masculine names might as well suddenly have become Sue, since all it took for most parents to stop giving these names to their sons was for them to become popular names for girls.