I’m vastly amused by how outraged some of the punditocracy appear to be that the markets didn’t run around like headless chooks on Monday, after the pundits predicted that they would and should take a tumble because of the dreaded “instability” of such a terribly unprecedented thing as a hung parliament. Dearie me.
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Cutting through the 24/7 news cycle / soundbite culture
to recast election campaign news coverage away from the horse-race and inside-baseball paradigms that currently masquerade as informing the public
Motion: regarding criticism of female politicians using gendered language in other forums
… the following tactic is suggested.
Escapist tosh and trash: what’s your poison?
What populist fictional entertainments have you been enjoying lately in your preferred medium that are essentially just gussied-up melodrama or heroic quest or action mayhem?
Pedant Corner: it’s Free REIN, whoa Nelly!
It’s an equestrian metaphor, not a monarchy metaphor. OK?
How to turn off Facebook “Places”
You will need to edit your personal Privacy Settings AND your approved Application Settings to ensure that your location information can’t be inadvertently shared with FB apps your friends are using.
When your advertisers leave in droves, that’s not an abridgement of your free speech rights
Something which most junior high schoolers could tell you straight out of their civics textbook, “Dr Laura”
Too true
My imagination is already reeling. What are your current favourite or most detested wildly inaccurate historical films or TV series, and what future travesties do you think your descendants might see?
Gratuitous Rufus Sewell blogging
thank you so much, web searchers, for alerting me to a show starring Rufus Sewell that I can now gleefully anticipate turning up here in Oz in the not too distant future
Dear Internets: How to make Rape Jokes that won’t make Women hate You
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.
Hoyden About Town 