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  • Lazy blogging

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    Oh, the dizzying heights when other people hand one ideas on a platter! A reader sent me a link to BoingBoing’s Pelosi: I’M IN UR HOUSE / IMPEACHIN UR DOODZ Addit: another one – The Right Was Right And Gummo… Read More ›

  • Dems knock GOP out of the House, and maybe the Senate

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    I haven’t blogged the US midterms here because it’s all been happening over at Larvatus Prodeo. The Dems have gained the seats needed to dominate the House, and it’s going to come down to recounts and possibly lawsuits before know… Read More ›

  • Woo-woo gold

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    It’s been a while since I’ve blogged any woo-woo doomsaying. But just as I was checking my Gmail and reading a discussion of the US midterm elections, my eye was caught by one of google’s ads that they place in… Read More ›

  • I’m unAustralian

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    I don’t give a stuff about the Melbourne Cup. I don’t bet on it, and I don’t deliberately watch it. As I’m not part of a socialising workplace, neither am I a lady who lunches, I’m able to do this… Read More ›

  • Cattiness and choice feminism

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    Thus, the problem with criticizing a woman for being appealing to a patriarchal beauty standard, you are, whether you like it or not, feeding the belief that women are catty. Moreover, it feeds the notion that conventionally attractive women cannot… Read More ›

  • HIV needlestick hoax

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    The Australian Red Cross Blood Service says it has received thousands of calls from people concerned by a hoax email about HIV-infected needles found in a cinema seat and at an automatic teller machine. The email circulated widely across Australia… Read More ›

  • Boring consumerism

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    I took the tigling and some of her friends for a cinema and pizza outing yesterday to celebrate the tigling’s birthday. That was fine, lots of fun, actually. But because of the weather we had to stay inside the mall… Read More ›

  • I’m glad he said it

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    This is the most-viewed article on today’s SMH online: “All religions degrade women“. AN ANGLICAN archbishop has linked Taj el-Din al Hilaly’s inflammatory comments on women with the degrading image of “the sheila” in pub culture and the failure of… Read More ›

  • How I learned to stop worrying and love the Diebold machine

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    Scott Adams: I think about the history of ATMs when I hear all the nervous Nellies wetting their pants over electronic voting machines. I believe those worries are totally misplaced. Now don’t get me wrong ““ there’s a 100% chance… Read More ›

  • oh, and by the way

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    “The suspect has only one hand“. This was tagged on at the end of a standard description (medium height, short brown hair etc etc) of a con-artist the police are looking for, as read out on the radio while I… Read More ›