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• Whoydensday quickhit: Nine or Ten?

  By tigtog on 2008-07-30 • ( 22 )

  I’m working on a long post which is being a tad recalcitrant, so talk among yourselves. Which Doctor do you prefer, and does that preference extend to other work from the same actors? Or did you not know either Christopher… Read More ›

• Quicklinks: Immigration Detention reform and a new indigenous representative body

  By tigtog on 2008-07-29 • ( 2 )

  Andrew Bartlett: Mandatory detention (sort of) scrapped It is wonderful to see the news that the federal government plans to finally scrap mandatory indefinite immigration detention and adopt the common sense (and much cheaper) approach that people should not be… Read More ›

• Bambi’s mother found shot dead in forest after threatening to go public about her affair with Obama

  By tigtog on 2008-07-28 • ( 2 )

  Never mind that he wasn’t even born, add her to the many victims on the Obama Death List, which miraculously includes the name of a man who was also apparently part of the Clinton Body Count 10 years earlier. (That… Read More ›

• SF Monday: the escape of the protagonist

  By tigtog on 2008-07-28 • ( 13 )

  Didn’t finish this off yesterday, sorry. It was always the mainstay of the old serial adventures, whether on the page, the airwaves or the silver screen: the cliffhanger moment where the hero/ine faced certain death and then managed to escape,… Read More ›

• Sunday inspiration: simple, effective action

  By tigtog on 2008-07-27 • ( 7 )

  Via Catherine Price at Salon comes the story of Olga Murray, who devised a simple, practical philanthropic solution that has virtually eradicated a tradition of starving Nepalese farming families selling their daughters into indentured servitude. 1n 1989 Murray was horrified… Read More ›

• Failing to Suspend My Disbelief

  By tigtog on 2008-07-26 • ( 9 )

  Lazy writers on long-running TV shows are giving me the stabbies quite often, but this particular one is still irritating me after a whole week, so it must be aired. When Dr Nikki Alexander, cool-calm-collected forensic scientist, realises that she’s… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Joy Nash

  By tigtog on 2008-07-25

  Ok, so this was *everywhere* last year. But some of the readers who’ve come aboard since then may not have seen it. The discussion today about oppressive beauty ideals and the resultant social insecurities that lead to immense profits for… Read More ›

• On women “competing for male attention”

  By tigtog on 2008-07-25 • ( 36 )

  A whole thread on LP about the social insecurities that lead to the cosmetic surgery makeover culture has been derailed by some men who are insisting on reframing it as women’s individual sexual insecurities about their looks, and how if… Read More ›

• Drongo day at HAT: Disingenuous troll of the week

  By tigtog on 2008-07-24 • ( 14 )

  The comment below was NOT approved for publication on my Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog. Free Clue, TrollDude – quoting Twisty Faster’s most infamous phrase ever is a big giveaway that you really just want to stir up a storm…. Read More ›

• Michael Savage is a drongo

  By tigtog on 2008-07-24 • ( 12 )

  I could have used many harsher terms, but I was exhausted from outrage and despair after reading his latest, and couldn’t really give him my best invective. Apparently, despite decades of study from medical and childhood health professions, Michael Savage… Read More ›