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• What happens when the unscrupulous tell lies about scientists?

  By tigtog on 2011-06-04 • ( 6 )

  Scientists get death threats, that what happens.

• Why is it always

  By tigtog on 2011-06-03 • ( 1 )

  … contrarians who can’t be arsed to set up their own free blog who whinge about being “silenced” when they’re not allowed to dominate comment threads on other people’s blogs?

• Robbie Williams, Professor of Manology at Science University

  By tigtog on 2011-06-03 • ( 7 )

  In which Robbie Williams reminds us that it’s not feminists who think that all men are garbage:

• Today in kiltblogging

  By tigtog on 2011-06-02 • ( 2 )

  

  How on earth has Kilt Roulette been on the internet for nearly 18 months and I haven’t seen it until today? I am most severely displeased, minions!

• So what else happened in Parliament yesterday?

  By tigtog on 2011-06-02 • ( 1 )

  The media’s way too excited about the ‘meow’ incident to tell us, so Grog’s Gamut gave a summary of the day’s proceedings. Barnaby Joyce put in his regular carrying on like a pork chop time in the Senate Estimates Committee. And did you notice that despite the drop in GDP, the Terms of Trade figures are looking really good?

• Farewell to the Space Shuttle

  By tigtog on 2011-06-01 • ( 4 )

  Just watched Endeavour‘s last landing at the Kennedy Space Center. For a little while, you can still see it sitting on the runway going through its final postflight checks, via this livestream.

• Bingo Card: My Need For Female Attention Outweighs Your Lack of Interest or Sense of Safety

  By tigtog on 2011-06-01 • ( 24 )

  Reading an old thread about self-proclaimed “nice guys” who refuse to take no for an answer, I realised that we had thrown around the idea of a bingo card in comments.

• 37th Down Under Feminists Carnival at Boganette

  By tigtog on 2011-06-01 • ( 1 )

  The astonishingly prompt Boganette has posted the May DUFC already!

• Gutless buck-passing bastards

  By tigtog on 2011-06-01 • ( 2 )

  Mr Barrett said the church’s commitment to the defence of Best and other convicted clergy contrasted to its treatment of victims.

• Pedant’s Corner: Dear BBC Knowledge Channel,

  By tigtog on 2011-05-31 • ( 8 )

  Your earlier show “A Victorian Farm” could have been arguably marketed as “the dawn of the Industrial Age”, but it was well past noon by Edward’s time. Why does your marketing department have to embarrass all those poor historians like this?