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  • Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 27, 2009

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed Single and knocked up March 27, 2009 – magazine tells only the stories that serve a romantically conservative agenda regarding unplanned pregnancies Where My Wild Things At? March 27, 2009 –… Read More ›

  • Sub-editing fail

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    AKA How the addition of a single word results in a headline that doesn’t provoke the Laura Norder crowd to clutch their pearls.

    Assuming, of course, that one doesn’t want to confect a controversy via a plausibly deniable misrepresentation.

  • Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 26, 2009

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed Information Reservoirs (or) How I Keep Track of a Large Amount of Incoming Information March 26, 2009 – Some good tips for organisation in the digital age Website page titles –… Read More ›

  • So who’s up for a grogblogmeet in Melbourne?

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    I’m there to play with a media pass for not-quite the first week of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, arriving Wednesday 1st and heading back Tuesday 7th. Who’s up for booze and food somewhere on Saturday (4th) or Sunday (5th)… Read More ›

  • Idle musing

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    For all those pharmacists and nurses and doctors out there who think that they ought to be able to have a conscience clause regarding abortion? To the point of not even referring patients to willing medical practitioners?

    What do you think about the idea that a pacifist should be able to join the military and expect to draw a pay check and advance in rank while exercising a conscience clause with respect to weapons that kill people?

  • Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 25, 2009

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed Tuesday round-up March 25, 2009 – from the F-word blog Carnival of Space #95 March 24, 2009 Fox News Producers Stalk and Harass Amanda Terkel. March 25, 2009 – more linkjuice… Read More ›

  • TV Tuesday: Dr Who David Tennant finale speculation

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    In response to my posting this link on Sunday, Anna had some thinky thoughts. If anyone else has some thinky thoughts about the casting rumours and anything else they’ve heard lately, this is the thread to drop it in.

  • I was a bit sneaky yesterday

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    After tinkering with other bits of code that could have been interfering, I turned the Bad Behavior spam blocker software back on. I didn’t receive any perturbed emails or Facebook comments, so I’m hoping that nobody had any troubles seeing the site yesterday. If you did have troubles, now’s the time to tell me, as my current plan is to turn it back on before I go to bed tonight.

  • Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 24, 2009

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    Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed It’s only rape if the victim’s a girl? March 21, 2009 Be progressive! B-E progressive! March 21, 2009 Tracy Van Slyke: Fighting for Media & Democracy March 22, 2009 New study:… Read More ›

  • Gang laws dependent on mode of transport? Really?

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    unless the media is being spectacularly wrongfooted in their reporting today, it really does appear that laws are being mooted with respect to criminal activity that are going to be different depending upon the suspects’ vehicle(s) of choice. What does it matter whether a gangster is wearing a leather jacket and riding a Hog or wearing a hipster outfit and riding a Segway?