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• Opting Out

  By tigtog on 2010-01-26 • ( 36 )

  I’m not doing anything for Australia Day today, because I don’t want to be even potentially confused with one of the flag-waving jingoists.

• Thought of the Day, grand romantic gesture department

  By tigtog on 2010-01-26 • ( 30 )

  Gifts shouldn’t be about what you want someone else to do, or be.

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 25, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-25 • ( 1 )

  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.

• Riley, Hilary, Leslie, Mackenzie, Lindsay, Taylor, Logan, Hunter

  By tigtog on 2010-01-25 • ( 42 )

  Once these names were all once considered manly names exuding virility. Yet every one of these traditionally masculine names might as well suddenly have become Sue, since all it took for most parents to stop giving these names to their sons was for them to become popular names for girls.

• Endangered Sundays: Manatees

  By tigtog on 2010-01-24 • ( 4 )

  A new feature for the blog: an irregular look at endangered species and how climate change is predicted to further affect them. Manatees are native to Florida, and have no native predators there. They are endangered because they are slow-moving… Read More ›

• The existence of this hat makes me absurdly cheerful

  By tigtog on 2010-01-24 • ( 4 )

  What exuberantly superfluous and dorktastic sights have brightened your day recently?

• Saturday Garden

  By lauredhel on 2010-01-23 • ( 11 )

  It’s a midsummer garden, so there’s not a whole lot going on except brown, dusty, and dry. Here’s what is. The melaleuca is flowering, in a mix of purple, pink and white flowers:

• Blogging for Choice: Trusting Women

  By tigtog on 2010-01-23

  Choice here is not just about the choice to terminate an unwanted or unsafe pregnancy. It is also about the choice to continue a pregnancy when others would rather that you did not (a situation that many disabled women in particular find themselves in). It is also about the choice to raise or relinquish the child once it has been born.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-01-23 • ( 16 )

  It’s…. Otterday! Hosted by a LOLotter from I Can Has Cheezburger. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Icedancers with a new twist on blackface.

  By lauredhel on 2010-01-23 • ( 11 )

  Via baby_elvis, this ice-dancing routine. From the news: Russian world ice-skating champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin have danced around the controversy surrounding their Aboriginal-themed routine, insisting they will still use it at the Winter Olympics. Aboriginal elders say the… Read More ›

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