After Tony Abbott’s “pledge of blood” response to the passing of the carbon price bill in Parliament yesterday, it seems that any minute now he’ll nudge over the line into full-blown WHARRGARBL* territory…
culture wars
Broadly, conservatism vs progressives / social liberties vs authoritarianism / social justice vs elitist marginalisation.
Quick Hit – Read the Comments
Quick Hit: Read the comments.
Feminism – we’re doin it rong #1568454876
Feminists deserting the Prime Minister?
It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it
George Carlin’s Final 2005 Words To The World…sounding hugely relevant right now.
TW for rape analogy
Today in Evo-psych Gender essentialism…
Gender essentialism at its best.
Quick Hit- Will anything change?
A new, unflattering, book about Tony Abbott, to hit the shops 1 October 2011.
Andrew Bolt has been found in breach of the Racial Discrimination Act
… with respect to statements made by the serial trollumnist in published articles from 2009/2010 questioning whether the Aboriginality of certain pale-skinned indigenous people was genuine…”contained errors of fact, distortions of the truth and inflammatory and provocative language”
Secular Sermon Quicklink: Getting Rich Is a Group Effort
Taxpayer-funded infrastructure and services are essential to the social stability that allows entrepreneurism to flourish. Try doing it without a robust law and order system which protects one’s individual rights under contract!
It must have ridden up with wear
Outraged opposition MPs debated the merits of At Home With Julia in a party room meeting today, with Nationals MP John Forrest urging the return of tasteful comedy shows such as the 1970s series Are You Being Served?.
BFTP: Hyphenating – who goes first?
…what is seen as usual – the woman’s name first, the man’s name last. This has become so customary that when my husband and I chose to hyphenate our surnames for the kids with his name first and my name last it was considered odd.
Hoyden About Town 