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• Thursday Cheezburger: Dismissed!; and Delurking Day

  By lauredhel on 2010-02-04 • ( 15 )

  Today’s Thursday Cheezburger theme is: “Dismissed!” Post your own favourite “Dismissed!” Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – February 3, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-02-03 • ( 4 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. SPUDWORKS – The Abridged Atlas Shrugged – Hahahahahahahaha. Tim Tebow and the anti-choice Superbowl ad –… Read More ›

• This is why the “it’s just sci-fi, it shouldn’t have to be PC” argument is crap

  By tigtog on 2010-02-03 • ( 7 )

  I mean how am I supposed to feel if I see a movie set in the future and there aren’t any black or brown people in it? How is a child supposed to feel? It’s like someone’s saying, “I don’t like you and I don’t want you to be here, so I’m creating a world where you don’t exist.”

• Femmostroppo Reader – February 2, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-02-02 • ( 6 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Sunny, with a chance of racism – “I feel sad and appalled and kind of defeated… Read More ›

• Obligatory Tony Abbott Said What Now? Thread

  By tigtog on 2010-02-01 • ( 42 )

  Make no mistake. Having the nation start up a debate on premarital sexuality when it’s an issue that has hardly been on the political radar is no mean feat, and Abbott is aiming to shift the Overton Window on this and other social matters.

• Nestlé-sponsored TV show: “Breastmilk no different from Coca-Cola.”

  By lauredhel on 2010-02-01 • ( 21 )

  GMTV sparks breastfeeding row “GMTV has reportedly sparked complaints to media regulator Ofcom after a programme expert claimed that breast milk can be “as bad as cola”. Midwife Clare Byam-Cook made the remark yesterday while being interviewed on air by… Read More ›

• Endangered Sunday: Andean Condor

  By tigtog on 2010-01-31 • ( 2 )

  I took these photos earlier this month at Taronga Zoo. This juvenile condor is part of the captive breeding program there, and these shots were taken while she performed in the famous Free Flight Bird Show.

• Sunday Barrowman Blogging: “I am Barrowman”

  By Beppie on 2010-01-31 • ( 5 )

  As some of you may know, last year, John Barrowman starred in La Cage au Folle [link] in London’s West End. Here he is singing “I Am What I Am”, which is the closing song of the musical’s first act:… Read More ›

• Denialism: it’s a tactic, not an ideology

  By tigtog on 2010-01-31 • ( 5 )

  Denialism (n): the practice of creating the illusion of debate when there is none.

• Today in ongoing double standards: pretexts for invasion

  By tigtog on 2010-01-30 • ( 4 )

  Especially when the lawyers from the British foreign Office testified that they had advised the war was illegal. Well, this makes it a war-crime, doesn’t it? So why aren’t Howard, Blair and Bush on trial in the Hague? Any other world leaders who have done the same thing have had had Western politicians baying for his blood, eg Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Or is it one rule for them, and another for us?

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