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• Whimsy: London Zoo Annual Weigh-In

  By tigtog on 2012-08-23 • ( 5 )

  

  Meerkats! Penguins! Giraffes! Giant tortoise! *ded* Please share links to anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you: think of this thread as a brain-bleach repository.

• Media Circus: you will answer our disingenuous circumlocutions exactly how we frame them

  By tigtog on 2012-08-20 • ( 16 )

  

  How dare Gillard get straight to the underlying point instead of following the interviewer’s planned choreography for her anticipated flustered blustering? The nerve!

• Biology Fail and #legitimaterape apologism: Todd Akin

  By tigtog on 2012-08-20 • ( 20 )

  

  Todd Akin, US congressman and senatorial nominee claimed in an interview that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.

• Soft targets

  By tigtog on 2012-08-18 • ( 3 )

  

  While I’m anticipating the new version of Total Recall with Colin Farrell with a certain degree of relish, I can’t help but note that so far as late-80s Arnie dystopic movie remakes go, TR aims at much softer (because interplanetary farther-future etc) targets than The Running Man ever did.

• Teaspoons Ahoy for Flyover Feminism

  By tigtog on 2012-08-16 • ( 12 )

  

  We don’t want to simply start conversations; we want to proactively connect activists from all over the globe and unite them in their struggle to affect a better future.

• Media Circus: Island prisons

  By tigtog on 2012-08-15 • ( 30 )

  

  Disgusted. 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.

• Keeping Creepy Under Control

  By tigtog on 2012-08-10 • ( 15 )

  

  Some links that neatly bookend aspects of a problem that many people experience, either as targets of creepiness finding that their social group is not stepping up to back them up, or those worrying about their particular social habits being perceived as creepy when it’s the last thing they want to be. Also? Enough with the Aspie bit already!

• Torture was central to both the witch scares and the Inquisition

  By tigtog on 2012-08-09 • ( 10 )

  

  … under such duress, people confessed at length and in great detail to the fantastic and impossible, often also indicting others, in a spreading, spiraling cascade of fantasies. Remember also that terror regimes the world over use it delightedly to terrify and suppress dissidents within their populations. […] And they can do this only in an environment in which there are people naive enough to believe the absurd perjuries concocted under such conditions.

  Don’t be one of those people.

• Whimsy: Straw Feminists in the Closet

  By tigtog on 2012-08-07 • ( 9 )

  

  Please share anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you: the world needs more unicorn chasers.

• Eggcorn of the Day

  By tigtog on 2012-08-07 • ( 4 )

  

  pre-madonna