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• Actually, EC President Barroso did NOT “slap down”/”slam” Gillard

  By tigtog on 2012-06-21 • ( 3 )

  

  Maybe, if we’re being scrupulously generous, it might be only one journalist who made up the anti-Gillard spin, and all the rest just copied it instead of viewing the primary source material. Still doesn’t speak much of their ethics, does it?

• Quick Hit: Again! Again! That horse can’t be dead.

  By Mindy on 2012-06-21 • ( 8 )

  

  Leadership tensions again. And again and again.

• Solstice Whimsy: Giant Bouncy Stonehenge

  By tigtog on 2012-06-21 • ( 6 )

  

  Happy June Solstice all! Merry Yule/Litha to those who celebrate the circling of the seasons. This week’s whimsy features Jeremy Deller’s inflatable sculpture Sacrilege. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

• Conflicted

  By Mindy on 2012-06-20 • ( 51 )

  

  There is at least one awesome school chaplain out there.

• Talent is not enough

  By Mindy on 2012-06-20 • ( 4 )

  

  When talent alone may not be enough for success.

• Rape Culture Observation: grooming victims *looks* like being “a good person”

  By tigtog on 2012-06-20 • ( 3 )

  

  Humans, even rapists, are complex entities. A rapist is capable of doing good things for some people, while doing grave harm to others. In Sandusky’s case, what appeared to be (and in some cases maybe actually was) good works was simultaneously the grooming of victims.

• Shakespeare and the Bechdel Test

  By Anna on 2012-06-19 • ( 19 )

  

  We all know which way the Avengers falls, but have you ever wondered whether Shakespeare passes the Bechdel test?

• Signal Boost: Kickstarter for documentary on violation of workers’ rights in strip clubs

  By tigtog on 2012-06-19 • ( 2 )

  

  This feature documentary is about the choices that three San Francisco strippers, Lola, Daisy, and Mariko, make as their workplaces engage in illegal labor practices. Strip clubs refuse to pay strippers even minimum wages & actually charge them for the privilege to work.

• Juneteenth

  By Mindy on 2012-06-19

  

  Happy Juneteenth

• Understatement OTD: “One of the things we will be looking at urgently is the communications team”

  By tigtog on 2012-06-18 • ( 2 )

  

  Says the representative of the Argyll and Bute Council in Scotland, whose heavy-handed response streisand-effected a regional scandal into a worldwide media storm about attempts to censor a schoolgirl blogging their school lunches. Now the school lunch menu is being reformed, and the furore helped her raise more than £80,000 for development charity Mary’s Meals. Martha Payne is authentically awesome.

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