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• River leaving Baghdad

  By tigtog on 2007-04-27 • ( 2 )

  I remember Baghdad before the war- one could live anywhere. We didn’t know what our neighbors were- we didn’t care. No one asked about religion or sect. No one bothered with what was considered a trivial topic: are you Sunni… Read More ›

• Righteous Rant of the Month

  By tigtog on 2007-04-27 • ( 2 )

  Ilyka’s been a tad busy, and not had much time for blogging this month. She’s been paying attention though, and is not best impressed.

• Camille Paglia: still a intellectual minnow pretending to be a shark

  By tigtog on 2007-04-26 • ( 2 )

  Shorter Camille Paglia: young women who “hookup” for sex are degrading themselves terribly and should be less slutty, and if only one of those silly sluts had given the VTech shooter a mercy fuck then they wouldn’t be dead, which… Read More ›

• 1142 days of not waking up with intrascapular pain

  By tigtog on 2007-04-26 • ( 12 )

  Just over 3 years ago I had breast reduction mammoplasty surgery. At the time I clunkily coded my own webpage detailing the events pre and post op. (some of my invisible listserv friends said “you should blog this” and I… Read More ›

• Your guess is as good as mine

  By tigtog on 2007-04-26

  Hoyden was down for a few hours yesterday, and because we’re cheapskates we chose a webhost without 24/7 tech support, so we couldn’t contact them on our public holiday. Normally the webhost lets us know if they’ve scheduled server outages… Read More ›

• At the going down of the sun, and in the morning

  By tigtog on 2007-04-25 • ( 4 )

  We will remember them. Lest We Forget. The Dawn Service observed on ANZAC Day has its origins in an operational routine which is still observed by the Australian Army today. The half-light of dawn plays tricks with soldiers’ eyes and… Read More ›

• GetUp! Voices for Transparency

  By tigtog on 2007-04-24

  From GetUp! , regarding their campaign to ensure that deceptive “pregnancy counselling” services are legally required to be honest up-front about their anti-abortion stance: When GetUp! and Reproductive Choice Australia began this campaign last year, nearly 20,000 of you signed… Read More ›

• Ghouls

  By tigtog on 2007-04-23 • ( 6 )

  I haven’t posted here about the Virginia Tech massacre, because I had nothing adequate to say. I got in an argument about guns over at LP, and that was one reason I didn’t write on it here either. Sadly No!… Read More ›

• Framing that Overton Window for science

  By tigtog on 2007-04-23

  This is all over the science blogs at the moment: how to present science convincingly to the public in an atmosphere of anti-science media sensationalism. It’s got a lot of scientists very agitated indeed. The debate is mostly US-centric, but… Read More ›

• cyberbullies again

  By tigtog on 2007-04-23 • ( 2 )

  DeviousDiva, a pseudonymous British expat living and blogging in Greece, has been harassed by Greek nationalist bloggers, threatening to out her, for writing a series on the maltreatment of the Roma in Athens. Thankfully the major culprit blog has now… Read More ›