From H. Candace Gorman at the Huffington Post. You see the Colonel’s timing couldn’t have been more suspicious. Moe made his stunning announcement that charges should be filed against Major Mori just a few days after it became clear that… Read More ›
law & order
The law locks up the man who steals the goose from the common, but leaves the greater criminal loose who steals the common from the goose – Australian convict saying
Mori to do time? Unlikely.
So I turn on the tabloid TV this morning, and there’s much agitation about the possibility that Major Michael Mori, one of the military lawyers for David Hicks and a personal fave in the shyster ranks, may face charges that… Read More ›
Consensual sex contracts vs. consexual creed
There’s a lot of discussion in the feminist blogs about this T-shirt: This is timely, as currently most of the search engine hits bringing visitors to this blog are people googling on “consensual sex contracts“. But they’re not leaving comments…. Read More ›
Been meaning to post on this for weeks
Last month, one of my “favourite” creationist kooks, “Dr” Kent Hovind (also known as Dr Dino) has finally had his lies and arrogance over many years catch up with him: he’s been sentenced to 10 years in prison for various… Read More ›
Sex Contracts and Withdrawing Consent
Via Twisty, this story from Time Magazine (bolded emphasis mine): A Time Limit on Rape If a woman consents to having sex with a man but then during intercourse says no, and the man continues, is it rape? The answer… Read More ›
DJs sues thinktank over report on sexualised images of children in advertising
Todays SMH: Sex, lies and advertising: DJs sues over child exploitation claims IN WHAT is believed to be a world first, David Jones begins a legal case tomorrow in which it is suing the left-leaning think tank the Australia Institute… Read More ›
Nazanin saved from execution
Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi has been released! Nazanin is a young Iranian woman who was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death after she stabbed a would-be rapist in self-defence. [old tigtogblog post]. The international awareness raised by the Save… Read More ›
Up-skirting not just for schoolboys, sadly
Last year one of the boys at my daughter’s school was upsetting her and her friends by looking up their skirts. I spoke to his teacher and it apparently stopped soon after, but those girls were greatly distressed and a… Read More ›
Calling the shade of Golda Meir
Time to haunt another woman-as-cats’-meat reactionary. A Tennessee high-school principal withdrew a teenage student from a weightlifting class where she was the only girl. Why? Because he was concerned that the boys in the class might try to rape her…. Read More ›
Just a word?
Brooklynite offers some thoughts on what civil unions laws in the US will mean for the common language usage of “married”. Two years after the decision: “My friend Kyle got married last weekend.” “What? I thought he was gay?” “Oh,… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 