Just one today. Post your own favourite philosophical cheez o’ t’ week here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Flickr Group of the Day: Kitty Clones
Tuzz and her evil sister zzuT originally uploaded by vanstaffs on Flickr Caption suggestions?
New TV show Glee does crip-drag – very, very badly
Glee. It’s supposedly THE happening new US TV show, piloting now, and continuing next northern autumn. EW’s Popwatch calls it … the most joyous, exhilarating, fresh new series I’ve seen in a long time. TVSquad says For me, I saw… Read More ›
Heads up for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
I see an article in today’s SMH about yet another survey about sexual culture and mores which, of course, is in no way influenced by gender stereotypes. Sex-education classes are failing to teach young women the skills they need to… Read More ›
Sudden realisation
Some of you Hoydenizens may not yet have seen this. I simply cannot allow such deprivation to continue.
So when James Bond opens his eyes to find himself surrounded by uninvited bad guys
..and he plays along, feeding them lines that make them think he’s on their side, maybe doing some things he’s not proud about so that he is at least in partial control of the situation and successfully fools them sufficiently… Read More ›
Sunday Science Snark: The Jenny McCarthy Song
A loving tribute to their best friend, anti-vaccination campaigner Jenny McCarthy, from Measles, Mumps and Rubella.
Comedy this weekend?
I’m going out to see shows on Saturday night and Sunday arvo. The Sunday arvo shows were the ones I recommended earlier, but if anyone’s up for a Saturday night show you’re more than welcome to join me.
“Prehistoric pin-up”? Paleolithic fertility carving dubbed “pornography”
The back-slapping homosocial bonding continues. This time, it’s over a Palaeolithic sculpture. You heard right. This Aurignacian mammoth-ivory carving has been found in Germany by Nicholas Conard, and published in a letter to Nature. It’s thought to be the oldest… Read More ›
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