Kevin over at Sufficient Scruples has a series of posts on abortion rights in the USA at the moment. Go on and check them out. Anti-Choice Blogger Takes a Deep Breath, Sadly Concludes That Women Have to Die For His… Read More ›
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Lies about cheese crucial to War on Terror
This is an old story from 2004, but let’s lay it out for those that missed it last time, as Firedoglake reminds us that this man has a habit, and he can’t seem to kick it. George Bush can’t even… Read More ›
Chemicals are our Friends 1: oh but it’s Natural 0
Those who know me well online are aware that whenever I hear anybody utter the “it’s natural so it must be good for you” line I am fond of muttering darkly about whether they’d like a cup of fresh-from-my-pesticide-free-garden foxglove… Read More ›
Bad feminists, no biscuit for you
Stephen Mayne seems to be busy thrashing some strawfeminists lately – because “they” are not speaking out about the things he thinks they ought to. Unfortunately this does not appear on the Crikey! website, just in the daily newsletter. Sexist… Read More ›
Not happy, John
The only thing I’ve found remotely amusing about this past week’s hagiography of the Spinrat’s 10 years as PM is that the union demonstrators in Sydney last night were able to make enough noise that he had to use the… Read More ›
Cate does a Hedda in Brooklyn
I know I have a few folks in NYC and environs who drop by, so here’s an entertainment plug: go and see Cate Blanchett in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s… Read More ›
I’m an amateur
I only just realised that when I turned on word verification for the comments, I also accidentally checked the ‘moderate comments’ option as well. Because I didn’t mean to do this, I didn’t check the ’email alerts’ option, so comments… Read More ›
Blogwhoring at Pandagon
Amanda kindly lent me some space at her place while she’s off hijinking in Amsterdam. Unfortunately it appears she didn’t get my revised draft in time, so what’s up at Pandagon is crudely made and the last paragraph should just… Read More ›
How the hell did I do that?
I go to add a few Sydney latte-bloggers to my sidebar, and my formatting goes to hell. You guys are bastards. UPDATE: so, now I have a whole new blog look. Hmmm. I suppose it might grow on me. So… Read More ›
Round up of the Carnivals
I’ve recently discovered the blog carnival phenomenon. For an afficionado of procrastination such as myself, heaven! The carnivals I’ve chosen to showcase in this post will probably peg me* for the curious better than my blogroll ever could, as I… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 