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  • A tigtogtip

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    When watching Blade Runner on DVD, having torrential rainfall on the roof as an addition to the soundtrack adds a certain frisson. Whatever happened to Rutger Hauer, anyway?

  • What happened to women’s rights in Iraq?

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    There were some long involved threads on ozblogs last week about Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Kim at LP, and those of us who agreed with her, got piled upon (twice) for disagreeing with some of Hirsi Ali’s suggestions about how to… Read More ›

  • 1Q: How relevant are motives in assessing the public policy stance of a politician or commentator?

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    This week’s One Question is from Harry Clarke, who writes in an earlier post: In assessing testimony in a court of law motives are important. Elsewhere they are less so but they pervasively affect our attitudes. Some have argued that… Read More ›

  • Domestic abuse

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    A great post from a survivor of an abusive marriage, addressing the issue of “why do women stay?” and how responses to a survivor are often just victim-blaming instead of true support.

  • Talking about acting childish,

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    I finally downloaded some pics from my cameraphone, and here are the tiglets. Tigling is 12, and togster is 14, but they still sometimes act like they’re 5. Good on ’em.

  • Depression and anxiety

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    Magic Bellybutton has written a terrific post about her experiences dealing with depression and anxiety. A lot of her experiences mirror mine, which is something I haven’t written about on the blog although I’ve thought a lot about doing so,… Read More ›

  • Hell yeah yippiekayyay!

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    I saw the trailer for Die Hard 4.0 this evening, while waiting to watch Noise (which was excellent, and more of that anon). The stunts highlighted are delightfully over the top, and Bruce Willis looks older but harder and meaner,… Read More ›

  • Feminist Frustrations

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    That’s Eryn Loeb’s title for her Bookslut review of two recent feminist primers: Jessica Valenti’s Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters and Megan Seely’s Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist. Loeb… Read More ›

  • Puking up pink

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    I first saw this story from Zenobia, then Jess McCabe added to it, and then Twisty got a hold of it and spanked it. I have little to add to their words, but I thought that what the story really… Read More ›

  • Nelson Muntz, cue in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

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    Sick of illegal fly-posting for concerts and other events in your neighborhood? Sick of having to pay higher rates because of the expense to council in cleaning it up? Try the solution that Glasgow Council came up with: pay council… Read More ›