media

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Watch this.

By Mindy on 2010-04-30 • ( 1 )

vid on youtube [sorry about lack of embedding, can’t seem to get it to work today – fixed ~tt] Then read this. Of course there is still a long way to go before we see anything other than a young… Read More ›

Quickhit: James Cameron on the Lakota Sioux people

By lauredhel on 2010-04-23 • ( 9 )

The Guardian has this quote from James Cameron, director of the movie Avatar, which has been widely criticised as a White Saviour movie. (See our previous conversation on Avatar.) Cameron said witnessing indigenous ceremonies and meetings in the Amazon had… Read More ›

Abbott’s no dole for

By tigtog on 2010-04-21 • ( 16 )

The industry and the unions rise as one to say – “we don’t want those unskilled workers Tony, that’s the fucking point”, although of course their reasons differ.

Monbiot mistakes the specific for the general

By tigtog on 2010-04-08

This strikes me as totally the wrong end of the stick, as if it reveals an attitude towards FoI in principle rather than these vexatious FoI requests in particular.

My Easter Post on The Drum

By tigtog on 2010-04-07 • ( 17 )

Little did I know that leading churchmen around the nation were going to dedicate their Easter messages this year to painting atheism as mad, bad and dangerous to know.

Wednesday Warm Fuzzies: Good News in Science

By tigtog on 2010-03-31 • ( 3 )

Brought to you by judge who finally said what we were all thinking: the idea that you can patent a human gene just because you were the first to find/identify it is not what patent law was meant for.

The Daily Mail song

By lauredhel on 2010-03-30 • ( 3 )

Most of you probably know about the UK right-wing middle-class-white-grievance-pandering newspaper the Daily Mail, aka the Daily Fail and a variety of other nicknames. Dan & Dan Films made a song about it.

Politics vs Policy: how superficial gamesmanship steals our future

By tigtog on 2010-03-29 • ( 20 )

This should be shaping up as the real issue in the upcoming Federal election – for both the PM and the Leader of the opposition. What do either of them really offer for the future of Australia? Sadly, how would we know, when the media encourages both of them to “win the week’s news headlines” instead of pushing for bigger goals and the comprehensive plans to make them happen?

Ann Coulter loves competition in the free market, except when it’s competition in free speech

By tigtog on 2010-03-26 • ( 5 )

Ann Coulter has been getting a lot of traction over the last couple of days with talk of being censored by having a speech cancelled. So, who was it exactly who cancelled Coulter’s speech on the campus of the University of Ottawa?