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• My car just punched me in the face

  By tigtog on 2011-09-29 • ( 9 )

  

  The open car door did have some wind assistance…

• Andrew Bolt has been found in breach of the Racial Discrimination Act

  By tigtog on 2011-09-28 • ( 22 )

  

  … with respect to statements made by the serial trollumnist in published articles from 2009/2010 questioning whether the Aboriginality of certain pale-skinned indigenous people was genuine…”contained errors of fact, distortions of the truth and inflammatory and provocative language”

• Some of this bloke’s friends will be defending him right now

  By tigtog on 2011-09-28 • ( 13 )

  

  Man admits to elaborate online stalking campaign against girlfriend: will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty at Southampton magistrates’ court on Monday to a charge of causing harassment, alarm or distress.

• Femmostroppo Reader September 25, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-09-26 • ( 2 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Saudi women can now vote (still can’t drive)

  By tigtog on 2011-09-26 • ( 4 )

  

  King Abdullah said his decision came because “we refuse marginalising women’s role in the Saudi society in all fields” and followed “consultations with several scholars”.

• Secular Sermon Quicklink: Getting Rich Is a Group Effort

  By tigtog on 2011-09-25 • ( 5 )

  

  Taxpayer-funded infrastructure and services are essential to the social stability that allows entrepreneurism to flourish. Try doing it without a robust law and order system which protects one’s individual rights under contract!

• I ♥ axial tilt and elliptical orbits

  By tigtog on 2011-09-23 • ( 14 )

  

  Because without them we wouldn’t have seasons. Happy September equinox, all.

• ObFacebookTickerLoathing: all that screenspace just for the boring stuff?

  By tigtog on 2011-09-23 • ( 6 )

  

  To me, this doesn’t sound like a problem that needs solving. If Facebook users aren’t sharing stuff because they worry it will bore their friends, good! Thank you, people of Facebook, for your restraint in choosing not to bore me.

  But Zuckerberg couldn’t let this undersharing stand.

• Typical

  By tigtog on 2011-09-21 • ( 2 )

  

  What is the commentary this morning on tabloid telly? It’s all asking whether we should stop activist judges being silly softies instead of whether we should stop our prisons being rape factories.

• It must have ridden up with wear

  By tigtog on 2011-09-20 • ( 5 )

  

  Outraged opposition MPs debated the merits of At Home With Julia in a party room meeting today, with Nationals MP John Forrest urging the return of tasteful comedy shows such as the 1970s series Are You Being Served?.