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• Quickhit: protests and arrests in Minneapolis St. Paul stifle legitimate dissent

  By tigtog on 2008-09-04 • ( 9 )

  If it wasn’t for blogs I would hardly have heard that nearly 300 people have been arrested while protesting the Iraq war and the Republican convention over the last few days. The city centres have been heavily militarised with large… Read More ›

• Guy Barnett pushing another punitive bill amendment on abortion

  By tigtog on 2008-09-03 • ( 29 )

  LABOR MPs will get a conscience vote on a controversial push to scrap Medicare funding for abortions in Australia for women who are more than 14 weeks pregnant. [link] The ALP’s national executive committee has confirmed it will recommend that… Read More ›

• Whoydensday: movie speculation

  By tigtog on 2008-09-03 • ( 7 )

  I suppose the rumours had to start. From GallifreyOne: Doctor Who has been named the show that people would most like to see adapted for the cinema. A Radio Times online poll in July and August saw some 2,300 readers… Read More ›

• Denialism and climate change

  By tigtog on 2008-09-03 • ( 8 )

  Having only so many endlessly whirling arguments to devote my time to, I haven’t written hardly anything on the issues of climate change and the vagaries of the denialists here in yonks. I’m not going to write anything in particular… Read More ›

• Devastated by Dame Helen

  By tigtog on 2008-09-03 • ( 8 )

  Ack. I can’t even write about this. Coverage from others: Helen Mirren tells men’s magazine date rape shouldn’t be illegal – why, oh why?! from The F-Word Blog by Jess McCabe Helen Mirren thinks date rape shouldn’t be illegal? from… Read More ›

• I missed this – Fairfax totally losing the plot

  By tigtog on 2008-09-02 • ( 2 )

  They sacked Mike Carlton on Friday from his regular weekend column gig with the SMH because he refused to submit a column for publication while the journalists and editorial staff were on strike (in response to the announcement that 5%… Read More ›

• Virtual travelling: Eruption in Iceland

  By tigtog on 2008-09-02

  .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Eruption, originally uploaded by Duncan_Smith. The first time I ever saw a proper geyser was in… Read More ›

• Families, politicians and stupid rumours

  By tigtog on 2008-09-02 • ( 23 )

  I was very unimpressed with some rumours I read within hours of the announcement that Sarah Palin was running for VP on the McCain ticket: to whit, rumours that infant Trig was in fact not her son but was instead… Read More ›

• Spring!

  By tigtog on 2008-09-01 • ( 4 )

  Spring photos from around the world, culled from a Flickr image search 1. Reading in the flowers, 2. simply green and blue, 3. Have a quiet weekend ! 🙂, 4. Panonian sea, 5. spring snow beauty darkforce, 6. Today, The… Read More ›

• SF Sunday: zines and fanfic and cons, oh my!

  By tigtog on 2008-08-31 • ( 6 )

  BayCon 2006 photos cropped from originals uploaded by kentbrew Fairly light on the fandom scale, me, despite my enthusiastic reading/viewing. We’re subscribed to Aurealis and I read Eidolon online, I’ve posted a few macros to ihasatardis, and I’ve been to… Read More ›