It really pays for politicians to check what their oft-overlooked web support staff are getting up to. Especially if they have designed one’s webpage using somebody else’s template. Because there are several problems with that. Ethically, obviously, if one’s web… Read More ›
Politics
Stuffed-head blogging
I’ve got a cold that’s making concentrating difficult, and I’m having a bit of a down in the dumps reaction to having concentrated so hard on fundamental feminist theory the last few weeks while getting the basic FAQs for the… Read More ›
Another gnaw on the Bone
Pamela Bone’s piece, published on International Women’s Day, on the perceived kowtowing from Western feminists towards cultural relativism certainly stirred up a few reactions. I didn’t blog on it myself as my reaction was essentially the same as the one… Read More ›
419: They haven’t forgotten me after all
It’s been so long since I received a solicitation from a 419 scammer in my email. It’s made me come over all nostalgic for the good old days of alt.folklore.urban, and analysing minute changes in these scam-mails as they got… Read More ›
Tactical feminist voting: does the politician have daughters?
Kristjan Wager has a very interesting post up, based on a 2005 study. She finds that women with girls in both countries and men with girls in Canada are significantly more likely to hold feminist views. Warner and Steel (1999)… Read More ›
Interesting
From a comment at LP by cam of South Sea Republic: The muslims are the current beating pad for conservatives, yet immigration statistics suggest that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the Australian born (Victoria IIRC is the… Read More ›
Jill Filipovic and internet searches
This is a crosspost to effect a Googlebomb, correcting an injustice against a fellow feminist blogger. Apologies for the length, but putting any of it behind a cut would kinda defeat the purpose. Jill Filipovic, who blogs at Feministe and… Read More ›
Friday Furry
image found on net yonks ago – will credit it properly if notified Courtesy of DarkSyde at DailyKos: yet another Bushco administration attempt to gag scientists working for government bureaus, this time the Fisheries and Wildlife Administration. “Please be advised… Read More ›
More on Maj. Mori and those threats of misconduct charges from the US military prosecutor
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 ›
My my, LGF has bounced by
Perhaps that’s why, although you don’t like people on “your side” being described as such, I have to say that the Bigots, Homophobes, Sexists, Racists, etc – as evidenced by their very own words – can cry me a fucking river of boohoohoo about how they are being oppressed by being accurately described as Bigots, Homophobes, Sexists, Racists, etc.
Hoyden About Town 