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• Why I almost didn’t write a post for White Ribbon Day this year

  By tigtog on 2013-11-28 • ( 3 )

  

  Because the neverending pushback against it year after year after year had very almost ground me down, to the point where I was avoiding reading WRD posts so that I wouldn’t have to see the comments. This post by Jane Gilmore at King’s Tribune (via Clementine Ford’s discussion of it on her FB timeline) made me decide to post after all.

• Does not compute

  By tigtog on 2013-11-25 • ( 9 )

  

  For some reason, I don’t think my unsolicited correspondent is telling me the entire truth about xir diligence in background research.

• ObWhoniverse: 50th Anniversary Episode Thread

  By tigtog on 2013-11-23 • ( 29 )

  

  Share your feelpinions, but please be spoiler-aware!

• Media Circus: Shock! Horror! The ABC pays people!

  By tigtog on 2013-11-21 • ( 6 )

  

  @PrestonTowers lays out the latest GG attempt to stoke up animus against the ABC on AusOpinion.

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

• Obligatory Joss Whedon Feminist Speech Post

  By tigtog on 2013-11-12 • ( 12 )

  

  Whedon, then, delivers a speech on the term “feminist” without any reference to feminist history, without any apparent awareness of feminist theory, and without even any demonstrated knowledge of the most important objections or conflicts around the term “feminist,” the use of which he is purportedly discussing.

• The ducks know we’re in here

  By tigtog on 2013-11-11 • ( 5 )

  

  … they also know there’s more muesli in the box. The other animals we’ve seen around our country retreat have been a lot less pushy.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By tigtog on 2013-11-09 • ( 9 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Privacy, Transparency, Surveillance and Sousveillance

  By tigtog on 2013-11-04

  

  David Brin’s latest essay in his longoing series about our Transparent Society: I want the watchers to be watched.

• Today in tigtog is pedanticer than most: gargoyle vs grotesque

  By tigtog on 2013-11-03 • ( 12 )

  

  Architecture: all gargoyles are grotesques, but not all grotesques are gargoyles.

• Slice of Awesome: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss swinging Black Dog

  By tigtog on 2013-10-25

  

  From their 2008 collaboration album Belgian Chocolate, following on from their first collaboration album Raising Sand (2007).