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writer, singer, webwrangler, blogger, comedy tragic | about.me/vivsmythe

  • New study results: recent global warming not due to solar effects

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    From The Australian (!): THE key plank of a controversial British documentary has been discredited by new research showing that the sun is not causing global warming. The findings are in stark contrast to claims made in the documentary The… Read More ›

  • A timeline to think upon

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    If Iran Were America (And We Were Iran): A Timeline This is a very well done example of reversing protagonists and putting shoes on other feet. It’s also a useful pointer for people who have been previously unaware of just… Read More ›

  • I’m baaaaack!

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    And most remiss in not thanking the delicious Guest Hoyden’s for helping Lauredhel keep the blog ticking over in my absence until after I’d made two posts today. Thank you, thank you bluemilk, Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony, sajbrfem… Read More ›

  • Work/Life/Family Balance in NSW

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    On a day dominated by the media attempting to beat up a story about NSW Premier Morris Iemma taking time off to spend the school holidays with his young children, another story got hardly any traction. Both stories tie into… Read More ›

  • Imagine, I so nearly missed this sight

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    Published while I was away on hols: why oh why couldn’t the SuperHornet pilot have strapped him in “for more realism, Sir” and told him to push the ejector seat button (“this starts the mighty engine, Sir”)? Image Credit: The… Read More ›

  • Schuss!

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    Just for anyone else who learned to ski at Perisher Ski School in the 70s, the snow this week is so good that Pepe has turned up to ski for the first time in 15 years, and Hermie was out… Read More ›

  • Weekend wittering

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    FFS, world meeja, just quit whining about covering stories that involve a certain celebutante, will ya? Stop arguing when other journos want to put the stories through the shredder. I used to do some snarking on celebs here at Hoyden,… Read More ›

  • Friday Fun: Which feminist icon are you?

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    Well, I try and kick arse, but I don’t really think I kick an Angela Davis level of arse. (Updated to Add: see, although Crikey! has just described Hoyden About Town as “dispens[ing] its femmobolsho views loudly, proudly and with… Read More ›

  • 1Q: Is there merit in governments playing catch-up politics?

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    Tim Dunlop’s blogging experiment, One Question, has the third round happening. (For full details see Tim’s original post.) The current question is this: the government is accused of playing catch up politics, but is there some merit in such an… Read More ›

  • Sex ed – the facts

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    Further to Lauredhel’s post about a UK judge’s strange views on the sexual precocity of a 10 year old girl, which became a discussion on young people and sexuality (and the negatives of viewing adolescent sexual experimentation through a lens… Read More ›