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• Our PM’s higher purpose

  By tigtog on 2006-02-20 • ( 3 )

  Shamelessly stolen from Billy Connolly (paraphrased): “John Howard’s only use is to show us what Harry Potter will look like when he’s old” – Enough Rope, ABC Australia Feb 20, 2006 After the defeat of Lord Voldeshort, Harry struggled to… Read More ›

• Packer lacked respect for women – is anybody surprised?

  By tigtog on 2006-02-20

  Stephen Mayne, in today’s Crikey! , dishes some dirt on the long-rumored philandering of Kerry Packer and his serial string of alleged mistresses over the years and ties it up in a bow of anecdotes detailing KP’s utter lack of… Read More ›

• Can rape be committed under duress?

  By tigtog on 2006-02-20 • ( 2 )

  A disturbing tale on many levels from today’s news: When duress is no argument for rape The assaulted girl in this account was obviously traumatised terribly, and there appears to be no doubt that she was raped and assaulted by… Read More ›

• I’m an amateur

  By tigtog on 2006-02-19

  I only just realised that when I turned on word verification for the comments, I also accidentally checked the ‘moderate comments’ option as well. Because I didn’t mean to do this, I didn’t check the ’email alerts’ option, so comments… Read More ›

• Sydney Blogger’s Meet – April Fool’s Day Picnic

  By tigtog on 2006-02-19 • ( 2 )

  At yesterday’s latte-blog the consensus was to have an outdoor meet once the weather got cooler, to make it a family-friendly location, and get as many bloggers along we can. April Fool’s Day seemed to all concerned to be the… Read More ›

• Blogwhoring at Pandagon

  By tigtog on 2006-02-19

  Amanda kindly lent me some space at her place while she’s off hijinking in Amsterdam. Unfortunately it appears she didn’t get my revised draft in time, so what’s up at Pandagon is crudely made and the last paragraph should just… Read More ›

• Modesty? That’s what body doubles are for!

  By tigtog on 2006-02-19

  This is the post that was meant to go up at Pandagon, although obviously Amanda didn’t get my revision in time so the crappy first draft went up instead. Fuckfuckittyfuck. There’s been a moderate amount of eyerolling ennui in the… Read More ›

• Prostitots and babywhores

  By tigtog on 2006-02-18

  I blogged a while back about the disturbing trend of sexualised dolls as toys for little girls. There’s a very interesting article in the SMH on Turning Girls Into Eye Candy. “We can’t allow marketers to colonise this nor should… Read More ›

• How the hell did I do that?

  By tigtog on 2006-02-18 • ( 2 )

  I go to add a few Sydney latte-bloggers to my sidebar, and my formatting goes to hell. You guys are bastards. UPDATE: so, now I have a whole new blog look. Hmmm. I suppose it might grow on me. So… Read More ›

• So, how does one tell the axe-murderers from the con-artists?

  By tigtog on 2006-02-18

  I’m off shortly to the Sydney latte-blog get-together. I’ve got together IRL with net-buddies before in my USENet days, and shared fun and hospitality, but whenever I speak of it to people who don’t interact online they are always concerned… Read More ›