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• ObEquinox Photo: Happy Spring, fellow Southrons!

  By tigtog on 2012-09-23 • ( 6 )

  

  Scheduled for the exact minute of the September Equinox BECAUSE I CAN.

• Media Circus: out of step

  By tigtog on 2012-09-21 • ( 7 )

  

  Our leaders are cynically dodging behind parliamentary procedure to avoid properly representing their electorates, while another damning Aboriginal death in custody report raises scarcely a blip on the national radar. As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.

• Femmostroppo Reader, September 21st 2012

  By tigtog on 2012-09-21 • ( 1 )

  

  Marriage equality, the working poor, mental illness, gender roles and more. Sadly missing is discussion of Australia’s ongoing disregard of black deaths in custody. items of interest encountered recently in my feed-reader or via twitter. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• We apologise for the interruption in transmission

  By tigtog on 2012-09-20 • ( 9 )

  

  The normal foiling of diabolical masterminds shall continue shortly.

• Scalzi on being a good commentor

  By tigtog on 2012-09-19 • ( 7 )

  

  John Scalzi at Whatever asks 10 useful questions we should all be asking ourselves about our commenting habits.

• Doctor Who: S7 Ep3 – A Town Called Mercy

  By tigtog on 2012-09-17 • ( 4 )

  

  SPOILERS!

  So the theme for this season now seems more clear:

• Femmostroppo Reader, September 16th 2012

  By tigtog on 2012-09-16 • ( 7 )

  

  Apologies for my long linkfest hiatus, and now back to your normal programming! Items of interest I’ve recently tweeted. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Surprise, surprise – Lindsay Foyle reports threats from Tony Abbott too

  By tigtog on 2012-09-14 • ( 11 )

  

  This late-1970s attempt at intimidation was witnessed by a bunch of other journalists working for The Bulletin at the time. Yeah, the idea that Abbott could have punched the wall beside a woman’s head to intimidate her as his political rival just seems soooo unlikely, amirite?

• Deveny! Deveny! Deveny!

  By tigtog on 2012-09-14 • ( 11 )

  

  According to the angriest keyboard pounders in the Twitterverse, Catherine Deveny rudely interrupted & talked loudly over the top of everybody else on Q&A on Monday night, and was especially disrespectful to the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen. What a frightfully boorish display that would be if it were true.

• Are you OK?

  By tigtog on 2012-09-13 • ( 28 )

  

  You are not alone, and there is help out there. Feel free to talk here if you want to, but don’t feel compelled to share here if you’d rather be more private: please just find somebody you can trust to talk to.