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• More complacent denigration

  By tigtog on 2008-05-13 • ( 1 )

  crossposted at LP Last year Paul Norton wrote with some sadness and much asperity “Is David Burchell brain-dead?” Referring to the particular column which prompted the post, Paul contrasted ex-communist Burchell’s stance with the positions taken by anti-communist Robert Manne… Read More ›

• Women of Myanmar (Burma) and China

  By tigtog on 2008-05-13

  I’m just going to quote this post from Suzie at Echidne of the Snakes in full,complete with its links for Burma, and add a reminder for the women of China coping with the earthquake disaster of yesterday. When a disaster… Read More ›

• From the mailbag

  By tigtog on 2008-05-13

  It’s not all invitations to coffee or ungrammatic hatemail. Sometimes these little notes revive pleasant memories of previous posts, like a nice little alert from someone (doing a systematic search on sites which had referenced them) to an updated URL… Read More ›

• Another for the ‘rape is not about sexual attraction’ file

  By tigtog on 2008-05-12 • ( 1 )

  Man, aged 18, charged with raping an 82 year old woman twice, allegedly attacking her as she was taking an early morning walk in a park. On Mother’s Day. He is most unlikely to have found her irresistably physically desirable:… Read More ›

• Ice Queens

  By tigtog on 2008-05-12 • ( 2 )

  Images from the Australian Antarctic Division’s online photo gallery from a 2006 exhibition: these are the Icebergs. There are also galleries for: * Animals * Auroras * Australians in Antarctica * Colours of Antarctica * Electron microscopy * Ice patterns… Read More ›

• The Perils of Blogging #37291

  By tigtog on 2008-05-12 • ( 3 )

  If you blog from work, someone will find out unless you are scrupulously careful. If your workplace is a political party and you use a photo that could only come from party sources, that is not being scrupulously careful. If… Read More ›

• Happy Mother’s Day

  By tigtog on 2008-05-11 • ( 9 )

  I’m well chuffed with my complete set of Hornblower DVDs. (Thinks: what would a cage-wrestling match between JDF and the Ioan would be like?)

• Insert sailing on high Cs pun here: La Fille du Régiment at the Met

  By tigtog on 2008-05-10 • ( 3 )

  Oh my oh my oh my. If ever I am required to save the world by snogging a tenor, can this be the one? We went to see the Met Live in HD at the Chauvel today. We couldn’t have… Read More ›

• I can’t believe it’s not International No-Diet Day

  By tigtog on 2008-05-10 • ( 2 )

  And we missed it! Anyway, Fillyjonk and Kate have posted lots of good stuff about HAES and Size Acceptance. Everyday is No-Diet Day in my house, although yesterday was actually no-retain-food-in-belly day, as I succumbed to the chundering bug that… Read More ›

• Online inconvenience

  By tigtog on 2008-05-09 • ( 2 )

  The handy-dandy online “TM Headstart” service is broken. ’tis most annoying, because I don’t get to tell youse all about my latest business venture until I’ve protected the name.