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• Checks to see if Guest Posting Policy link is still in our sidebar

  By tigtog on 2013-05-21 • ( 23 )

  

  Why, yes it is! Quite near the top, even.

  So why do people still send us general cut-and-paste guest post offers which clearly display their lack of familiarity with our policy?

• Kevin thread

  By tigtog on 2013-05-21 • ( 9 )

  

  Interesting timing.

• Spurious Quotation of the Day: Big Government

  By tigtog on 2013-05-20 • ( 4 )

  Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

• Ron Lindsay’s #wiscfi twist on the conventional Opening Speech

  By tigtog on 2013-05-19 • ( 9 )

  

  How to undermine your own Women In Secularism conference: spend most of your opening speech scolding feminists for Doin It Rong, because why not encourage the already hyper-active flying monkeys to fling more crap at secular women?

• Racebending on Star Trek Into Darkness

  By tigtog on 2013-05-15 • ( 19 )

  

  Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I’m a big fan of the Cumberbatch, and I thoroughly enjoyed his performance as the villain in the latest Star Trek movie so long as I could forget his character’s name:

  SPOILERS!

• BFTP: Who moved that apostrophe?

  By tigtog on 2013-05-15 • ( 2 )

  

  How did a day that grew from West Virginian Mothers’ Work Days from 1858 onwards (where mothers worked together to improve their community), and Mothers’ Friendship Days from 1865 (to promote harmony between former opponents in the Civil War), become what we celebrate now as Mother’s Day?

  See the difference that apostrophe position makes?

• Media Circus: Budget 2013 edition

  By tigtog on 2013-05-14 • ( 27 )

  

  Since the topic of these media-circus posts is just a discussion-starter, don’t let it constrain your media analysis. Any sociopolitical issue currently making the news is on topic, as is highlighting egregious churnalism and those far too rare instances where the MSM rises above it.

• Signal Boost: petition Disney to keep Brave’s Merida marketing true to movie

  By tigtog on 2013-05-14 • ( 8 )

  

  ‘Brave’ creator blasts Disney for ‘blatant sexism’ in princess makeover:

• Chutzpah of the Day: Field and Game Australia edition

  By tigtog on 2013-05-13 • ( 3 )

  Field and Game Australia’s Rod Drew said protesters should be investigated over the incident. He said it could be more than just a coincidence that the slaughter happened on the year that duck protesters had been sitting for firearm and… Read More ›

• Can’t blog – rehearsing!

  By tigtog on 2013-05-10 • ( 12 )

  

  My singing group has our recital tonight! So have a montage of Riker getting his leg over a series of chairs.