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• Oh c’mon, get angry at Hicks, c’mon!

  By tigtog on 2007-05-21 • ( 7 )

  The Daily Terror is desperately trying to get us all upset that Hicks is getting “perks” that the rest of us should view “with a mixture of anger, suspicion and displeasure” apparently. (Never mind that these “perks” are not anything… Read More ›

• Fluffy Feminism Redux

  By tigtog on 2007-05-20 • ( 26 )

  Last month, in one of HAT’s most commented posts, Lauredhel riffed off a trenchant criticism of the marketing around Jessica Valenti’s book Full Frontal Feminism to make some larger points about the common co-option of “sex-positive” feminism into the Feminist… Read More ›

• Karen PWN!S! TEH n00bs

  By tigtog on 2007-05-19 • ( 2 )

  Karen Healey of Girls Read Comics and They’re Pissed riffed off Lauredhel’s Anti-Feminist Bingo Card and created an Anti-Comics-Feminist Bingo Card. Apparently some fanboyz have been having a whinge at her about it, so she has called forth the mighty… Read More ›

• They still can’t tell a monkey’s arse from an ape’s elbow

  By tigtog on 2007-05-19 • ( 7 )

  Some mob of creationists out of Minnesota are putting up billboards around various other states challenging evolutionary theory with the slogan “Are They Making a Monkey out of You?”. Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education… Read More ›

• Abstaining from reality

  By tigtog on 2007-05-19 • ( 2 )

  A harrowingly detailed post from TerranceDC of The Republic of T (the post-title is his) about the way that AIDS education and prevention programmes worldwide, but especially in Africa, have been sabotaged by the Bush Administration’s insistence on not only… Read More ›

• Aargheeheee! The rapier wit of the Gore-Deranged is destroying me!

  By tigtog on 2007-05-18

  Carbon Credit Killers. Why We Do It The reason we sell Carbon Debits is simple ““ we want to take away the pathetic excuse of Carbon Credits from those liberals who hide their shame filled lives behind money-bought lunacy. Carbon… Read More ›

• Iraq too dangerous for Harry (and his tank unit)

  By tigtog on 2007-05-17 • ( 4 )

  Shorter desperate Whitehall spin: but the rest of you will be just fine, honest, even if you’re not in a tank unit, and of course the COW is totally winning in Iraq. [news story] ———————————————————- Chris Heyman, an ex-military editor… Read More ›

• I’m thinking that getting dressed would start to require real attention to detail

  By tigtog on 2007-05-17

  You really wouldn’t want to get these jackets mixed up once the online interaction systems get properly sorted. Exhibit A: Feel an online hug just like the real thing Jacket made to measure for love from afar Exhibit B: Self… Read More ›

• Loving, steadfast companion or alluring, wanton adventuress?

  By tigtog on 2007-05-16 • ( 4 )

  (my post on Monday regarding the Mary Jane sculpture reminded me that this was hanging around in the drafts folder from months ago) The last three words of the post title leapt out at me from amongst the denser verbiage… Read More ›

• Jerry Falwell, dead aged 73

  By tigtog on 2007-05-16 • ( 3 )

  So he got his threescore years and ten, then. TANJ, except that he simply won’t get the glorious afterlife he’s been expecting. The Carpetbagger Report has a timeline of various highlights of his bigoted authoritarian ranting career. (via Ginmar)