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• Friday Hoyden from fiction: Jo Marsh March, Little Women

  By tigtog on 2008-04-18 • ( 28 )

  How old were you when you first read Little Women? I think I was about 8, and I was utterly typical: Jo was my favourite. Was anyone unenraptured by Jo March on reading the book? What about portrayals on the silver screen or the box?

• Typical MND misrepresentation: shame on you, Glenn Sacks OK, his explanation does make sense after all

  By tigtog on 2008-04-18 • ( 36 )

  Alert blog-readers may have noticed that many blogs, including this one, use a “cut” or “more” tag on longer posts, so that only the first few paragraphs show on the main page, and to read the full story one needs… Read More ›

• Damon Wayans’ Wayout TV: Violence against Women is Fucking Hilarious

  By tigtog on 2008-04-17 • ( 7 )

  Unbelievable. Summary of video: Man playing videogames, phone rings. He eventually answers it. Cut to Woman calling Man, nervously, to tell him she’s pregnant. Man says “oh, no, what are YOU going to do?” Woman says “I’m not sure what… Read More ›

• Lighter side: Cat and theremin

  By tigtog on 2008-04-17 • ( 2 )

  This is zooming around the traps, so you may have already seen it. If not, enjoy.

• Belated Blog for Solidarity: Congo Rape Epidemic

  By tigtog on 2008-04-15

  With everything else I had happening last weekend, I missed this blogswarm. I have nothing to add to Melissa’s wonderful post anyway: Blog in Solidarity: Congo Rape Epidemic I know it’s horrible. I know it’s the last fucking thing in… Read More ›

• What Shakesville said

  By tigtog on 2008-04-13 • ( 3 )

  We Write Letters

• This week, I shall be mostly googling ‘diabetes’

  By tigtog on 2008-04-12 • ( 37 )

  My darling husband spent hours at our local Emergency Department today, hooked up to a saline drip and being injected with insulin. His blood glucose level (BGL) was scarily high, yet he’s never been diagnosed with high blood sugar by… Read More ›

• I’ll never look at Tony Hill in quite the same way again

  By tigtog on 2008-04-12 • ( 7 )

  Damn you, Gummo! Seriously, a great post on a skeptical approach to psychological profiling in homicide cases.

• Newbie bloggers: how’s it going?

  By tigtog on 2008-04-12 • ( 15 )

  I just came across this blog written by Freya, a 17-year-old woman in India, who’s exploring feminism generally and the sexist culture of her own country particularly. She’s only been blogging for about a week, but I just want to… Read More ›

• Free Speech Frolics

  By tigtog on 2008-04-12 • ( 3 )

  @ndy at Slackbastard is having a few adventures with folks in the UK serving a “cease and desist” letter to his webhosting service based on defamation allegedly contained in one of @ndy’s posts. The “chilling effect” of this notice of… Read More ›