Babalon-93 has suggested that I expand my previous post, “Words Mean Stuff: thorny language”, into a Fifty Two Something series: 52 Something Choose something you would really like to do on a weekly basis and commit to sharing it with… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Parenting while atheist: Discovering the questions, and religious education in schools
[image source] Recently, my kid asked “Who MADE the seeds?” The vexed issue of spirituality and parenting is discussed in all parenting forums. Which religion, if any, do you “teach” a child? Do you teach religion as doctrine, or comparative… Read More ›
Cool photo
Literally. via a Terry on a private mailing list
Just for Kate: Macquarie Word of the Year vote
[image source] The Macquarie Dictionary is running their Word Of The Year 2007 vote. Thought it really should be called “Word Or Phrase Of The Year 2007”. Not all of these originate in Australia, of course, but they were all… Read More ›
Universal Smartarses Cooperative
Just a bit of fun, yer ‘onor. Every now and then I feel the urge to “play the Troll card” or “play the Bored card” on certain discussion threads i.e. point out that another commentor has grown tedious in one… Read More ›
Surfacing
Yes, it’s more pictures from Tasmania! This dolphin and its blowhole was part of a large pod in Adventure Bay on Bruny Island – there must have been at least 50. Unlike the usual mid-grey bottlenose I see occasionally around… Read More ›
Words Mean Stuff: thorny language
Y’all know I’m picky about words. Dismissing a verbal or textual argument with that piffly lip-noise and a snide “Oh, but that’s just semantics” doesn’t do it for me. Semantics is meaning, and when you’re using words as persuasion, meaning… Read More ›
Perhaps I’m the last person in the world to realise this
…but I only just found out that the name of Britney’s younger sister, Jami Lynn, is a portmanteau of the names of the parents, Jamie and Lynne. How on earth Britney missed out on either parent’s name is unknown. Perhaps… Read More ›
Adding it to the wishlist
Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction – Utopias and Dystopias Judith A. Little (Ed) Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, 2007 411 pages, ISBN 9781591024149 This accessible and provocative collection of science fiction acquaints readers with cutting-edge gender controversies in moral and… Read More ›
Rhapsody in Shoe
Who knows why? On a country road in Southern Tasmania, on the way to the Freycinet Peninsula. The title, and taking a photo in the first place, was my son’s idea. (View Large On Black)
Hoyden About Town 