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• Anti-choice spin on parental consent laws

  By tigtog on 2006-03-27 • ( 4 )

  Recently I became aware of a case from 1988 where a young woman in the USA died because parental consent laws in her state meant that she couldn’t get a safe legal abortion from Planned Parenthood early in her pregnancy… Read More ›

• SF Sunday

  By tigtog on 2006-03-26

  An interesting review of a movie, and some of its American viewers. I obviously will have to go see V for Vendetta, and track down the graphic novel too. So it has come to our attention that some people are… Read More ›

• Catherine, Emma, Purdey and feminism

  By tigtog on 2006-03-26

  I love the Avengers, along with other super-stylish British action shows from my childhood such as The Prisoner, The Saint and their low-rent cousin Dr Who. And one of the things I liked on these shows is that the female… Read More ›

• Friday night contentment blogging

  By tigtog on 2006-03-24 • ( 2 )

  Mr Tog and the Tigling are off at the rugby watching big strong guys dressed in blue like this try and get a ball up and down the field more often than big strong guys dressed in some other colour…. Read More ›

• You must be smarter than this lump of inanimate electronics to play statistician when you’re a journalist

  By tigtog on 2006-03-23 • ( 7 )

  I have a feeling I won’t be the only Ozblogger mocking a Crikey! journalist for truly shocking innumeracy, but I might just be the earliest: what’s wrong with the table below, which was appended to a Crikey! article entitled “Putting… Read More ›

• I could have done without this

  By tigtog on 2006-03-23 • ( 4 )

  Some readers with whom I’ve been invisible friends for some time know that my son, the Togster, has Asperger’s Syndrome, and thus has special educational needs. Like many Aspies, he is fairly high IQ and quite accomplished with maths/science/tech subjects,… Read More ›

• Sydney Blog Meet – April Fool’s Picnic Reminder

  By tigtog on 2006-03-23 • ( 4 )

  On a very hot Saturday last month, at the latteblogmeet coordinated by Susoz, we muttered about having a picnic on April Fool’s Day when the weather would be just that little bit cooler, and to make it a kid-friendly but… Read More ›

• Simple arguments

  By tigtog on 2006-03-22

  Two posts about gaping policy divides in Western society: Firstly Chris Clarke of Creek Running North: “some things are priceless, and the economy thus finds them worthless. “ Read the whole thing, which provoked the following comment from John from… Read More ›

• Dawn does not heart Kevin

  By tigtog on 2006-03-21

  KTK of bioethics blog Sufficient Scruples has been banned from commenting at the anti-choice fundegelical hysterics forum Dawn Patrol , written by the only journalist ever to be fired from a Murdoch paper for ethics violations, Dawn Eden. Kevin explains… Read More ›

• Babies, black dogs and benefits

  By tigtog on 2006-03-20 • ( 5 )

  Well now, isn’t this study an interesting bookend with the New Zealand study that caused a press stir a few months ago when it showed a correlation between mental illness and abortion of pregnancy. An Australian study has shown that… Read More ›