Keep up to date with Firedoglake – pretty much live-blogging the unfolding Cheney croney-shoot scandal. Image from Firedoglake For extra-chewy goodness, Amanda at Pandagon argues persuasively against another blogger’s premise that conservativism is about limited government.
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No! Don’t look at the meme behind the cartoon!
I’d hate for a new reader to think that this blog was all-abortion all the time (that’s just a current Parliamentary issue of the moment). I do actually have other political and personal concerns. I had difficulty writing about the… Read More ›
Sometimes you don’t even have to read the article
Senator Lyn Allison, my current Australian hero, got a lot of attention worldwide this week when she stood up in the Senate and said: “An estimated 1 in 3 women have had an abortion, and I am one of them”… Read More ›
Anonymous cowards for forced childbirth
They want to force women to bear children against their will, and they won’t even stand up and say who they are. AUSTRALIANS AGAINST RU486 As you might expect, their rhetoric is full of misinformation regarding the risks of medical… Read More ›
Nikongate, complete with smoking lens(*)
Anonymous Lefty has an excellent post on the tabloid character assassination of Mark Latham over his contretemps with a press photographer following him around when he was with his children. As Armaniac comments: “…like we all wouldn’t get the impulse… Read More ›
Fighting the urge to hurl…
… a brick through the window of every store carrying these dolls, the ads for which have only just crossed my radar. Yup, a major toy manufacturer is now officially sexualising infant girls.Apparently some folks in the US have been… Read More ›
We knew it was bad for you, see!?!
A sample of the headlines: Abortion increases stress: study Abortion increases mental health risk: study Abortion raises depression risk, say NZ researchers Abortion study backs pro-life debate Don’t you just love the way the MSM so baldly states its beat-up… Read More ›
Pay no attention to that blatant outrage behind the curtain
Look at this quibbling spin over here instead! Pay no attention to the fact that obstetric services in rural Oz are woefully inadequate, let’s quibble over how dangerous it would be for rural women to have easy access to RU486… Read More ›
Let me guess…
…if Howard loses out on this bill (a joint Greens/Democrats initiative to lift the ideologically-imposed ban on RU486), it somehow magically won’t be as important a story in Bushco’s media as how Howard won on sending troops to Iraq.
Hoyden About Town 