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• The most potent weapon in the PC arsenal

  By tigtog on 2008-10-14 • ( 9 )

  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Disgust Disgust, originally uploaded by Spencer Batchelder. Yep, that’s the nastiest munition we have here at… Read More ›

• Virtual Travelling: Bristol UK graffiti

  By tigtog on 2008-10-14 • ( 6 )

  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 8/10/08, originally uploaded by emmdee. Emmdee managed to capture the artist putting up this huge stencilled… Read More ›

• As the US election campaign descends farther and farther into black farce

  By tigtog on 2008-10-13 • ( 25 )

  Jesus’ General makes the appropriate accompanying video: Passionately Credulous Bigots For McCain (We’ll Believe Anything) So, is anything marginally more sensible happening in the election campaigns in NZ or Canada?

• Angst in the papers

  By tigtog on 2008-10-13 • ( 16 )

  This morning’s editorial in The Age is muted with respect to the two laws passed regarding reproductive choice in Victoria last week, opining that the abortion decriminalisation legislation goes too far with its explicit negation of a conscience clause, and… Read More ›

• Quick Hit: Weekend Election Watch

  By tigtog on 2008-10-11 • ( 7 )

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light sums up how frothingly the extreme right wing blogosphere is reacting to the polls for the McCain campaign: The Corner goes round the bend Meanwhile, as I say, The Corner and its cronies continue… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: reading in public

  By tigtog on 2008-10-10 • ( 59 )

  How many of you always carry a book to read? Do you find that your commute time is actually the time you can have to yourself to get that reading done? Is your ideal lunch-hour finding a park bench all… Read More ›

• Victorian upper house votes on decriminalising abortion today

  By tigtog on 2008-10-10 • ( 10 )

  Legislation to remove abortion from the Crimes Act in Victoria (abortion will still be regulated under the Health Act) has provoked hours of debate in the upper house of the Victorian State Parliament leading up to a conscience vote. The… Read More ›

• Punishing the poor

  By tigtog on 2008-10-10

  More fuckwittery from the Bush administration regarding reproductive health aid to Africa. In some parts of Africa, a woman now has a 1-in-10 risk of dying in childbirth. The idea that U.S. policy may increase that toll is infuriating. via… Read More ›

• Nuance for Dummies

  By tigtog on 2008-10-09 • ( 1 )

  The wingnuts continue to wag fingers at feminists for not supporting Gov. Palin’s election campaign. The way these loopers misrepresent feminist positions would be comical if it wasn’t so agenda driven. Jim Quinn (paraphrased): feminists simply can’t stand that Palin… Read More ›

• If only we’d realised it was that easy

  By tigtog on 2008-10-09 • ( 20 )

  Yet another unpublished email from yet another concern troll over at FF101: darla (email address redacted) I think all women should embrace the fact that God made us different for a reason, stop being mad. you kind of women is… Read More ›