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• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2011-01-29 • ( 17 )

  Today’s otter comes via The Daily Otter.

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

• Friday Hoyden: Kim Clijsters made of awesome

  By tigtog on 2011-01-28 • ( 4 )

  What if, every time a woman was called fat, she laughed?

  So tweeted Margot Magowan to sum up the awesomeness that was Kim Clijsters this week.

• Today in Just Not Getting It

  By tigtog on 2011-01-28 • ( 6 )

  Who knew that advocating for single mothers to be NOT shamed and for their children to be adequately supported by society was tantamount to claiming that single motherhood was “the most advanced, liberating experience on the planet akin to putting a man on the moon”?

• Thursday Cheezburger – Plotting…

  By Mindy on 2011-01-27 • ( 2 )

  Today’s theme is: Plotting…

  Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

• Femmostroppo Reader January 26, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-01-26 • ( 2 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• Poor Journalism nearly causes Road incident

  By Helen on 2011-01-26 • ( 8 )

  Yesterday, as I learned while driving along Burke Road listening to PM, Lara Giddings had just replaced David Bartlett as Tasmanian premier, and DID A JOURNALIST IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE JUST ASK THIS QUESTION? OH YES SHE BLOODY WELL DID…. Read More ›

• Politician parents

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-01-25 • ( 3 )

  Image credit. Check out this intriguing article from The Economist – “The Gruffulo Years: A striking number of Britain’s senior politicians have young children. That is a good thing”. The world changes much more rapidly once its leaders are personally… Read More ›

• Sunrise of the Dinosaurs

  By Mindy on 2011-01-25 • ( 14 )

  

  I really should listen to my good friend and work colleague who tells me not to watch Sunrise because it makes me angry. But as I was watching the tennis last night, that was the program on this morning when… Read More ›

• Don’t read today’s Heckler

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-01-24 • ( 13 )

  Because I’m pretty sure I’ve already won our game of bingo.

• Quicklink: Tim Lambert zings Andrew Bolt

  By tigtog on 2011-01-23 • ( 3 )

  Yes, Andrew: a pdf labelled ‘Chapter 4’ is never ever going to be the “whole report” now, is it? So perhaps your pronouncement that “not once did it mention floods” was rather courageous (in the Sir Humphrey sense) on your part.

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