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• The 74th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

  By Chally on 2014-07-09 • ( 1 )

  

  All the details on the latest edition and how to submit to the next one!

• QOTD: Sarah Silverman

  By tigtog on 2014-07-09 • ( 1 )

  

  Keep your filthy hands off my guns while I decide what you can & can’t do with your uterus

• Today in someone is wrong on the internet

  By Mindy on 2014-07-08 • ( 5 )

  

  This is quite a radical proposal to deal with throat cancers caused by the a couple of strains of the HPV virus.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2014-07-05 • ( 40 )

  

  Our Open Thread this weekendfortnight is hosted by an otter with a ball.

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

• “School bans sex victim from ball … but offender can go”

  By lauredhel on 2014-07-03 • ( 29 )

  From today’s West Australian: School bans sex victim from ball … but offender can go: “A private high school has banned a former student from attending its senior school ball because a boy who had sexually assaulted her will be… Read More ›

• Morrison’s strategic silence on asylum seekers

  By tigtog on 2014-07-03 • ( 3 )

  

  Scott Morrison has a lot to say about stopping boats carrying asylum seekers in general, but gives the public only bafflegab about the latest boat in particular.

• The McClure Report: stigmatising welfare

  By tigtog on 2014-07-02 • ( 10 )

  

  There are ideas in the McClure report worth pursuing and it might lead to a simpler welfare system, such as changes to family payments and payments for young people. The key question for NWRN is, are the proposals fair and will they assist people into sustainable employment? The NWRN opposes a cost-cutting agenda that will leave people in a financially worse position than currently.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2014-06-28 • ( 18 )

  

  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 chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Music Legend Moment: BB King And The Broken String

  By tigtog on 2014-06-27 • ( 1 )

  

  One of BB King’s signature tunes is How Blue Can You Get, a perfect showcase for his lyrical soloes on “Lucille”, the famous Gibson guitar. In this 6-ish minute version from his appearance at Farm Aid 1985, the opening solo goes for over 3 minutes …

• Media Circus: #FODI clickbait backfires edition

  By tigtog on 2014-06-25 • ( 4 )

  

  So how’d that “edgy” millennial social media strategy work out for you there?

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

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