For all those who feel that criticism of rape jokes is horrible censorship of your subversive point of view: it’s a fairly simple test, you shouldn’t even need to write it down, just reflect for a moment.
language
use, misuse and cynical manipulation of language in common and specialist speech and writing
Peeve: it’s RAISES/RAISING the question, dangnabbit
Unless one has made some detailed study of the field of rhetoric, and the use and misuse of logical fallacies therein, one is almost certainly not using the phrase “begs/begging the question” correctly. Yes, world – UR DOIN IT RONG.
Just Say Yay
Today’s guest poster is long time blogger ThirdCat, aka Tracy Crisp, a South Australian writer and comedian currently living in Abu Dhabi.
(Not) Werner Herzog reads Madeline
Or, as I have immediately renamed it in my head, Semiotics of Soubrettes.
ObDefinition: Grepping Loon
A grepping loon is someone who searches out particular terms on the Internet for the purpose of cutting and pasting a prepared rant or disingenuous misrepresentation of a topic rather than engaging in substantive discussion of the topic.
Daum on Palin on Feminism
While Palin remains a libertarian she’s not helping the fight against sexist or any other sort of oppression, so whether she calls herself a feminist or not, she’s not on my side.
#ausbudget 2010
My favourite tweet of the night goes to @annabelcrabb: Government Keeps Promise! Delivers Boring Budget, Exactly As Threatened
Reconciling abortion with my motherhood
At some point during my own pregnancy I knew I would confront my pro-choice politics, not because I had had an abortion in the past but because I could have, and because I believe so strongly in my right to… Read More ›
“Confessional” compositions and Dudes
Anyhoo, I thought it might be fun to just have a thread listing all the songs from male performers/songwriters that draw on personal experiences and which have not been widely described as “confessional” or “diarising”.
Toby Ziegler responds to this week in the blogosphere
Josh Lyman is obviously playing “The Blogosphere” here, and of course, it’s actually every week in the blogosphere. Probably every week ever in the history of humanity, actually.
Hoyden About Town 