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• Well they would say that, wouldn’t they?

  By tigtog on 2008-09-09

  From ABC Online: A residents’ group that fought against a proposed Muslim school at Camden, in Sydney’s south-west, has denied its support for a proposed Catholic school demonstrates a double standard in the community. Apparently their main concern, they now… Read More ›

• Palin’s priorities as mayor of Wasilla: raising taxes essential for a hockey rink, but funding rape evidence kits is too high a burden for the taxpayer

  By tigtog on 2008-09-09 • ( 10 )

  Our last Palin thread is getting a little long, so here’s another bit to chew on: via Bitch PhD: Back in 2000, Alaska’s then-governor, Tony Knowles, signed legislation protecting victims of sexual assault from being billed for tests to collect… Read More ›

• Major science award for climate change pioneer

  By tigtog on 2008-09-09

  I’m astonished that there hasn’t been bloggy outrage from the Bolt-Marohasy camp as yet: Top science award goes to climate researcher Wallace Broecker Wallace S. Broecker, a geochemist whose seminal studies made him one of the earliest voices to warn… Read More ›

• Virtual travelling

  By tigtog on 2008-09-09

  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sunrise, originally uploaded by RebootYourComputer. Taken in Toronto, Canada. I’ve been on a few early morning… Read More ›

• SF Sunday: must read novels

  By tigtog on 2008-09-07 • ( 30 )

  I’ve only managed 5 on this list: The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life. I’ve particularly missed most of the ones less than 10 years old, except for Cryptonomicon. How about you lot? Plus: what would you… Read More ›

• Web to Schlaflyites for Palin: no, you no can haz memory hole

  By tigtog on 2008-09-07 • ( 4 )

  Deleting that Palin post won’t make those questionnaire answers go away, Eagle Forum Alaska. Welcome to the world of googlecache and screensave. Palin is ignorant of basic historical facts on at least one question that she does understand (#11), and… Read More ›

• RNC and McCain’s speech: responses roundup

  By tigtog on 2008-09-06 • ( 6 )

  John McCain made his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, and others watched it so you didn’t have to. Some of them even liveblogged it.

• Friday Hoyden: Tamsin Greig

  By tigtog on 2008-09-05 • ( 6 )

  As requested a few weeks ago, an appreciation thread for the woman who describes herself as “puffin-faced” and confesses to having extraordinary trouble with corpsing, which must be a definite drawback for an actor who works primarily in comedy. Short… Read More ›

• Today I actually have some mild fondness for Morris Iemma

  By tigtog on 2008-09-05 • ( 12 )

  At least he made sure that Michael Costa was sacked before Iemma himself got toppled by the NSW Labor caucus. *putting champagne in the fridge*

• Linkage in lieu of a post

  By tigtog on 2008-09-05 • ( 8 )

  Lucy Tartan’s latest Reading Log is giving me ideas for my bedside book pile. Antivax: new evidence shows (again) no link to autism from Bad Astronomy by Phil Plait Best explanation for the non-existence of global warming ever from Pharyngula… Read More ›