culture wars

Broadly, conservatism vs progressives / social liberties vs authoritarianism / social justice vs elitist marginalisation.

BTW: “invasion”

By tigtog on 2011-06-30 • ( 7 )

I put up a post on LP about it yesterday. The discussion is mostly better than I feared.

Quick Hit – Gender Free Preschool

By Mindy on 2011-06-28 • ( 17 )

A gender neutral pre-school in Stockholm ruffles some feathers.

Quicklink: partial Australian web censorship starts in July

By tigtog on 2011-06-23 • ( 7 )

By “voluntary” they mean that the ISPs are filtering content identified as child abuse material voluntarily, not that they are giving their customers who don’t want to look at child abuse material anyway any choice about being gifted with a false sense of cybersecurity.

a red/white/blue poster done in the style of the Barack Obama "Audacity of Hope" posters. The image is of Tony Abbott, and in block letters underneath, it says "NOPE"

Isn’t the Abbott plebiscite just a pointless and expensive stunt?

By tigtog on 2011-06-21 • ( 7 )

Aaaaand this is why I love Kudelka.

The Grauniad on Bachmann et al

By tigtog on 2011-06-15 • ( 2 )

Bachmann, 55, believes her country needs to be reclaimed from a socialist president, a gay mafia, and treasonous liberals, responsible for, among other things, robbing Americans of the freedom to choose their light bulbs.

An Open Challenge to mainstream media re SlutWalk Sydney

By tigtog on 2011-06-12 • ( 15 )

Does a single one of you have the guts to forego predictable titillation and let the public know the truth about Slutwalk and the hundreds and hundreds of other women and male and queer allies who will be marching in non-skimpy wear, and why they are there? Or will it just be more sad head-shaking misrepresentation from your pundits?

What happens when the unscrupulous tell lies about scientists?

By tigtog on 2011-06-04 • ( 6 )

Scientists get death threats, that what happens.

So what else happened in Parliament yesterday?

By tigtog on 2011-06-02 • ( 1 )

The media’s way too excited about the ‘meow’ incident to tell us, so Grog’s Gamut gave a summary of the day’s proceedings. Barnaby Joyce put in his regular carrying on like a pork chop time in the Senate Estimates Committee. And did you notice that despite the drop in GDP, the Terms of Trade figures are looking really good?