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• Virtual Travelling: Florida

  By tigtog on 2008-09-30

  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } girl power, originally uploaded by KarensJilly.     a fanciful day ~ it was a perfect… Read More ›

• TARP watch: bailout FAILOUT

  By tigtog on 2008-09-30 • ( 3 )

  Vote count:     Democrats: 141 Yea, 94 Nay Republican: 66 Yea, 132 Nay The Times – Analysis: bailout vote calls Hank Paulson’s bluff Negotiators had worked all weekend to accommodate some of the doubts of conservative Republicans who objected… Read More ›

• Latest Palin rumour: a wedding for Bristol just before the election

  By tigtog on 2008-09-29 • ( 21 )

  Off the record, it appears that some McCain team members think a wedding for Bristol would provide the perfect distraction from Obama’s talking points in the crucial last week. Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will… Read More ›

• Book Giveaway: The Great Feminist Denial

  By tigtog on 2008-09-29 • ( 28 )

  I can’t deny, the timing on this has been a little awkward. We had a monster thread nearly two weeks ago about an op-ed written by one of the co-authors of this book, Monica Dux, where the general sense was… Read More ›

• TARP Watch Week 2: oversight, immediacy and golden parachutes

  By tigtog on 2008-09-29

  The Times: US banking crisis: midnight delivers the $700bn deal: half now, half later After compromises from the White House, Democrats and Republicans, the deal will effectively give Mr Paulson $350 billion immediately to start buying toxic mortgage-related assets, while… Read More ›

• On removing hijab

  By tigtog on 2008-09-29

  From Crypto-Muslim (aka Muslim Hedonist): How I again became (fully) white I was once again fully white. I blended into white, middle class society at work, at the mall, in the street. No one stared. No one asked me “where… Read More ›

• For those who need to vent at Russell T Davies

  By tigtog on 2008-09-28

  following the Doctor Who Season 4 finale that has just finished airing on Australian telly – here’s a thread I prepared earlier! NB: there will be spoilers there will be spoilers there will be spoilers there will be spoilers

• Paul Newman Appreciation Thread: 1925-2008

  By tigtog on 2008-09-28 • ( 7 )

  Image Source: Simon & Shuster Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward with a small dog, 1958 Paul Newman (born 1925) and Joanne Woodward (born 1930) were photographed here, soon after their marriage in 1958, with an unidentified little dog, obviously a… Read More ›

• Election Watch: Debate edition

  By tigtog on 2008-09-27 • ( 19 )

  So, the McCain/Obama (alphabetical order) debate starts in a little over an hour. Despite the desperate stage-managing of these events, they still do occasionally surprise. Any Hoydenizen who is live-blogging the debates should leave a link in comments so others… Read More ›

• A burbling blurb for Deep Blue

  By tigtog on 2008-09-26

  A quick word to absolutely recommend the show we went to see last night (thank you $corporate employer for the free tickets!). I’m pretty sure everyone in the band was a hoyden, including the blokes. Deep Blue bills itself as… Read More ›