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• Liberal Party’s shameful prevaricating

  By tigtog on 2008-02-08

  I wanted to post on the current round of semantic gymnastics regarding the Parliament’s apology to the Stolen Generations, but Andrew Bartlett’s done it, and better than I could: Liberals’ Separated Hearts. The comprehensive report of the “National Inquiry into… Read More ›

• Self-titled expert on false abuse allegations charged with domestic battery

  By tigtog on 2008-02-08 • ( 1 )

  Update 26 July 2008: prosecutors are not proceeding to trial in this case because the victim refused to cooperate with them. Not surprisingly, this is being cast as an exoneration/vindication by the accused. Insert Princess Bride quote here. * *… Read More ›

• Caption this

  By tigtog on 2008-02-07 • ( 4 )

  (Stealing some schtick from Liss) I’ll start with: These are the only pink bits you‘ll see, mate! Image credit: photo by ninjapoodles I love this shot.

• Margaret Mead and long bows: is the sexual revolution all her fault or not?

  By tigtog on 2008-02-07 • ( 5 )

  There’s an excellent post by Mercurius at Larvatus Prodeo regarding the drawing of long bows from scanty (nay, unrelated) data. It’s based on a notably incoherent op-ed column which asserts many things, but particularly makes the now common charge that… Read More ›

• Apologies

  By tigtog on 2008-02-06 • ( 12 )

  I’m not well. I’m not sleeping, I have no appetite, I’m a mess. So I’m not getting things done. I’m late on the Femmobolsho awards, largely because I clicked the wrong button on Saturday and f*cking deleted my whole scorecard,… Read More ›

• Boom-tish

  By tigtog on 2008-02-05 • ( 2 )

  Most of the time, the anti-feminist comments/emails we decline to publish over at Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog, are predictably tedious. At least this one had a punchline. EVERY WOMAN IN THIS THREAD NEEDS TO DO THE FOLLOWING 1. GET… Read More ›

• Don’t go out in the pouring rain

  By tigtog on 2008-02-05

  Am I the only one who gets an almost irresistible urge to do a d’Artagnan whenever I pass another pedestrian carrying an equally large furled umbrella?

• OK, I seem to have bollixed the comments

  By tigtog on 2008-02-04 • ( 5 )

  Update: All fixed now! I just got an email saying that at least one person has tried to comment and has been unable to. I just tried and I can’t do it either. I’ll try and fix it now, and… Read More ›

• Going grey

  By tigtog on 2008-02-04 • ( 19 )

  I was listening on the radio this morning, as I drove to Central Station to pick up my father (who had an appointment at RPAH for a minor procedure aimed at controlling the progression of his Paget’s Disease), to one… Read More ›

• 2008 State of the Union tag cloud: addressing priorities and themes

  By tigtog on 2008-02-02 • ( 6 )

  This tag cloud was generated from the 2008 State of the Union address. The words which come up in the very largest font are no surprise. Saddening to see “liberty, freedom, progress, peace” quite so much smaller than “terrorist, security,… Read More ›