How unsurprising. As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.
Politics
Quote of the week: Clinton’s speech was so good…
that Republican strategists are demanding to see his birth certificate too.
A thread for discussing the USA election campaigns.
The 52nd Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!
All the details on the latest edition, and how to submit to the next one!
The thing about intimidatory silencing tactics?
Sometimes they work out exactly as the malicious arseholes want them to, grinding people down until they feel the need to stop speaking out. But the technology that gives the bullies a megaphone to amplify their intimidation is a two-edged sword.
Because we fail to notice that we fail to notice
A poem by R.D. Laing
Parking near intersections in NSW
10 metres, you irresponsible gits.
Yes, this is a crotchety rant while wearing my curmudgeon pants.
So, what’s everybody else doing to #destroythejoint?
Torey Maguire reckons feminists should just ignore Alan Jones, since he’s just a formulaic shock-jock troll, but I don’t agree. “Don’t feed the Trolls” is bad science, and we should feed the trolls if we need to. Creative mockery to underline the point that we are not “offended”, we are contemptous: that’s cathartic as well.
Media Circus: got a Gonski?
There have been many leaks and many promises: how did the promised policy response to the Gonski report actually go down today?
Gotta Love The Internet: Eastwooding with an Empty Chair
Oh Internet, my birthday was days ago now – you really shouldn’t have! So Much #emptychair, #eastwooding and #invisibleobama on my feeds this morning!
Detroit tests 150 rape kits from backlog of 11,000: finds 21 serial rapists (one also a murderer)
Twenty of the 21 serial rapists were identified from the first 153 rape kits officially tested for DNA and entered into the national database known as CODIS, or the Combined DNA Index System, this summer. In other words, these 20 men had been involved in at least one other rape case, according to the database.
Hoyden About Town 