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• Sunday Star Wars: I find your lack of dancing…disturbing

  By tigtog on 2012-04-22 • ( 4 )

  

  Darth Vader vs Emperor Palpatine dance-off – this is a thing now. Please treat this as a general whimsy and weirdness thread – what have you spotted in the wild recently that you feel you just have to share?

• LNP staffer quits after anti-feminist rant in email

  By tigtog on 2012-04-18 • ( 7 )

  

  He sent an email to a Queensland feminist about the superiority of men, telling her to “get a life” and calling her a “sourpuss” for writing an opinion piece about the need for more women in parliament. Some media advisor, eh?

• Roseanne Barr wants the US presidential debate back on topic #righteousrant

  By tigtog on 2012-04-18 • ( 4 )

  

  Roseanne Barr on Ann and Mitt Romney and the Mommy Wars: “why bring out this fake issue again now? Could it be to divert the conversation from the continued restrictions being placed on women’s reproductive rights and make us forget that both parties are socialists for their own causes…?” – and Daily Beast puts this righteous rant from a woman who is running for POTUS in the Entertainment section.

• Look what I found: a picture of mass murderer Breivik that doesn’t play to his script

  By tigtog on 2012-04-18 • ( 7 )

  

  Why can’t you do better than all those fist-salute photos, media? Why are you publishing the shot that he wants people to see?

• Femmostroppo Reader, April 17 2012

  By tigtog on 2012-04-17 • ( 2 )

  

  Items of interest I’ve recently tweeted. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Femmostroppo Reader, April 15 2012

  By tigtog on 2012-04-15 • ( 2 )

  

  Items of interest I’ve recently tweeted. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• It Gets Better: a message from Australian comedians

  By tigtog on 2012-04-14 • ( 18 )

  

  I’ve long made pained expressions whenever I hear that “high school is the best years of your life” pablum expressed, and I was one of those people who did actually have a pretty good time at high school…I know now how lucky I was. After high school, LIFE GETS BETTER.

• Squee-Files: Galactic Suburbia nominated for a Hugo!

  By tigtog on 2012-04-13 • ( 3 )

  

  Congratulations to the fine women of Galactic Suburbia! Here’s how Alisa, Alex and Tansy open the summary of their latest podcast in response:

• Bob Brown retires; Christine Milne now Greens leader

  By tigtog on 2012-04-13 • ( 10 )

  BOB Brown has resigned as leader of the Australian Greens and will quit the Senate, with his former deputy Christine Milne unanimously endorsed by colleagues as Senator Brown’s successor. The Greens’ sole lower house representative, Melbourne MP Adam Bandt, was later elected Senator Milne’s deputy.

• This week in Bizarre-Barf

  By tigtog on 2012-04-13 • ( 3 )

  Glenn Beck has a shiny new toy. He has had a 20 year old movie set of the Oval Office refurbished so that he can use it for a special weekly broadcast to the nation.