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• Media Circus: do union officials really face no penalties for embezzlement, or is the Opposition wasting everybody’s time edition

  By tigtog on 2012-11-26 • ( 36 )

  

  What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By tigtog on 2012-11-24 • ( 24 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Quicklink: Stella Young on communication guidelines and disability

  By tigtog on 2012-11-22 • ( 8 )

  

  Let me make this quite clear. I do not identify as a person with a disability. I’m a disabled person. And I’ll be a monkey’s disabled uncle if I’m going to apologise for that.

• Whimsy: Flashmob Moscow edition

  By tigtog on 2012-11-21 • ( 10 )

  

  Sometimes we all need to see teh awesome. Please share anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you! To start: this icy-cool version of Puttin’ on the Ritz.

• BFTP: Marry, Shag or chuck off a Cliff: Boots of Revenge & High Adventure edition

  By tigtog on 2012-11-20 • ( 27 )

  

  Playing the game is not compulsory, it’s just an excuse to kick-start a general discussion of pop culture. So wotcha been watching lately? Wotcha looking forward to seeing soon?

• Media Circus: Gaza edition

  By tigtog on 2012-11-19 • ( 29 )

  

  What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.

• Nugget of Awesome: He-Man Woman-Haters Club

  By tigtog on 2012-11-18 • ( 3 )

  

  Basically, they reckon all women suck, all the time.

• Terrible horrible no good very bad science journalism headline of the day

  By tigtog on 2012-11-15 • ( 11 )

  

  I really don’t think that’s what any scientists did say, actually.

• Savita Halappanavar dead when an abortion could have saved her

  By tigtog on 2012-11-15 • ( 20 )

  

  She was miscarrying at 17 weeks gestation, there was no way to save the dying foetus, but it still had a heartbeat, so the Catholic doctors refused to terminate the pregnancy, allowing septicaemia to develop and eventually kill her.

• Media Circus: Royal Commission Edition

  By tigtog on 2012-11-13 • ( 9 )

  

  What has piqued your media interests lately?