Missed this while I was away, and some of you may have already seen the post linked at Alas, A Blog!, but the post is still open: Kim at Larvatus Prodeo is on a comments drive to raise money for… Read More ›
Sociology
Picture worth a thousand words of the day, and rally for Aboriginal justice
NAACP GOP Presidential Forum, originally uploaded by by JillNic83 The picture is via Jill of Feministe, and her post title is a cracker: But Abraham Lincoln was a Republican! That’s good enough, right? — There are rallies around Australia today… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Pippi Longstocking
[image credit: kiddie matinee] I loved Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking as a kid, and I’m just rediscovering her now at bedtime read-aloud with my four-year-old. Pippi is a quintessential hoyden, the obvious choice for my first Friday Hoyden piece. As… Read More ›
Fundiewatch: a Catholic prenatal diagnosis “counselling service”
Two of our local Catholic hospital networks have collaborated to offer a new so-called “counselling service, dubbed “Mamreh”. These two hospitals combined have a lot of community credibility already, as they provide the vast majority of private-hospital maternity services in… Read More ›
This is nasty.
Although I am, to quote an old Sandra Boynton gag, “eruditer than you” (or at least most), I still found reading through the composition quoted below involved more than a handful of false starts and reversals. Via Making Light, via… Read More ›
Smouldering: most Australians rape apologists
We’ve posted a bit about the mangy asshats who think that certain women and girls deserve to be raped – fat women, for example, or preteen girls who wear particular types of underwear. And we’ve posted about Nice Guy(tm) sexual… Read More ›
New study results: recent global warming not due to solar effects
From The Australian (!): THE key plank of a controversial British documentary has been discredited by new research showing that the sun is not causing global warming. The findings are in stark contrast to claims made in the documentary The… Read More ›
Living Black
First, a news snippet: The Age: Indigenous land takeover angers NT govt NT Attorney-General [and Member for Nhulunbuy] Syd Stirling said Aboriginal communities territory-wide were angry, confused and talking of legal action. He said the territory government was seeking advice… Read More ›
Work/Life/Family Balance in NSW
On a day dominated by the media attempting to beat up a story about NSW Premier Morris Iemma taking time off to spend the school holidays with his young children, another story got hardly any traction. Both stories tie into… Read More ›
Imagine, I so nearly missed this sight
Published while I was away on hols: why oh why couldn’t the SuperHornet pilot have strapped him in “for more realism, Sir” and told him to push the ejector seat button (“this starts the mighty engine, Sir”)? Image Credit: The… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 