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• Leadership

  By tigtog on 2007-02-08 • ( 8 )

  Someone (Atrios? Ezra Klein?) posted a link to this post last week from TPMCafe’s Reed Hunt, 10 Events that could change the election’s dynamics, and I quoted one line from it last week in an article I posted at LP… Read More ›

• Sex Contracts and Withdrawing Consent

  By tigtog on 2007-02-08 • ( 5 )

  Via Twisty, this story from Time Magazine (bolded emphasis mine): A Time Limit on Rape If a woman consents to having sex with a man but then during intercourse says no, and the man continues, is it rape? The answer… Read More ›

• Ooh, new blogfind.

  By tigtog on 2007-02-07

  Through a livejournal friends page, I discovered the Feminist Anti-Oppression Forum when I read this article: Unbelievable, reproducing a column by FOXNews Women and Business opinion writer Megan Dowd. Commentors noted a few awkward lines that read like they were… Read More ›

• Blogkeeping

  By tigtog on 2007-02-07 • ( 3 )

  I’ve added a couple of new functions for comments. 1. HTML quicktags – for easy text-formatting and link insertion. Highlight the text you want formatted/linked and click on the appropriate tag-button. 2. Email subscription to comments – you can subscribe… Read More ›

• Any search string that leads to Molly Ivins is a good search string

  By tigtog on 2007-02-07 • ( 4 )

  Sometimes following links that turn up in sitemeter is a joy rather than the usual ennui of seeing how many pervs are finding a link to this blog in a search engine. I like to think the pervs get a… Read More ›

• Grieving again

  By tigtog on 2007-02-06 • ( 11 )

  The fabulous picture above was done by Olduvai George a few years ago, portraying Chris Clarke and his dog Zeke in the Pleistocene Death Valley. (hat-tip, Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony) A few days ago I found out through… Read More ›

• Conservative bloggers channel Jan Brady: Marcotte! Marcotte! Marcotte!

  By tigtog on 2007-02-06

  Cut and pasted from a comment I left over at my LP post on bloggers joining political campaigns in the US (related to this Hoyden post from last week): Ha. The predicted conservative blogger meltdown about Amanda Marcotte joining the… Read More ›

• What a show!

  By tigtog on 2007-02-06 • ( 1 )

  Regular readers, I’m talking up the Astronomy Picture of the Day site again. This was taken in Perth on Australia Day (yes, it’s a panorama made from separate shots). The faint streak in the sky just left of centre is… Read More ›

• DJs sues thinktank over report on sexualised images of children in advertising

  By tigtog on 2007-02-05 • ( 3 )

  Todays SMH: Sex, lies and advertising: DJs sues over child exploitation claims IN WHAT is believed to be a world first, David Jones begins a legal case tomorrow in which it is suing the left-leaning think tank the Australia Institute… Read More ›

• Weekend walking

  By tigtog on 2007-02-04 • ( 3 )

  So, mr tog and I decided, on our return from abroad, that we really should keep up this walking-around-with-the-kids habit we’d developed over the 4 weeks of sightseeing. Instead of just lounging around the house on Saturdays, we should get… Read More ›