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 ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Those who do not know their history etc etc
– how the Tea Party movement is either deliberately misusing or seriously misunderstanding history, why that allows nonsense to spread unchecked, and why the trend of de-emphasising of history should be of concern to all sides of politics.
Ich Bin Nicht Ein Roboter
I am a Lion! (100 points* to anyone who gets the reference) This photo was taken by a lioness who stole a robo-cam and gave it a damn good chew-over. The camera was borked with its case mangled and cracked… Read More ›
Endangered Monday: Sable Antelope
Their magnificent horns, reaching 100cm in females and up to 165cm in males, have made them a trophy animal for centuries, thus contributing to their endangerment as a species
Quickhit: James Cameron on the Lakota Sioux people
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 ›
Friday Hoyden: Aretha Franklin
So much to love – where to start?
If anyone is small minded enough to complain…
…but why on earth would anyone be so silly as that?
Abbott’s no dole for
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.
Leave it to football to prove that women are the ‘sex class’
Gentlemen, a bit of perspective please. A police inquiry into an affair of prostitution involving an under-age call girl could not have come at a worse time for Raymond Domenech and his players just 50 days before the start of… Read More ›
Sonoma County demonstrates why I support marriage equality
Because for too many people in the world nothing less than marriage confers any domestic partner’s rights at all, no matter what other legal “protections” and arrangements are put into place.
Hoyden About Town 