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• Imaginary what now? Terra nullius and the Scouting movement

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-05 • ( 13 )

  After seeing the camping strips in Calvin & Hobbes, the Lad wanted me to look into local Cub Scouts. Y’all know I’m not too keen on the theist and heterosexist (and etc) aspects of Scouts, but I went to have… Read More ›

• Long weekend + school holidays = light posting

  By tigtog on 2009-10-05

  It’s Labour Day Holiday Monday here in NSW. So what’s everybody else up to?

• Femmostroppo Reader – October 5, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-10-05

  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. I Am Evil « Fusion Parenting – What do you do now that you DO know… Read More ›

• Quickhits: We are dying

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-04 • ( 11 )

  Lancaster Online: Crash injures man on mobility scooter David Bair, 72, of Ephrata, was driving his personal mobility scooter southbound along North Church Street around 11:30 a.m. when the accident occurred. […] A southbound car driven by John Risser, 81,… Read More ›

• Que(e)rying Sex Ed

  By Wildly Parenthetical on 2009-10-03 • ( 52 )

  Each year, I teach a course on gender and sexuality to a bunch of second year uni students. It’s focussed pretty firmly on challenging heteronormativity, in a way that most of the students, even those who are queer in some… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-03 • ( 14 )

  Today’s otter image comes via Project Gutenberg. It’s a rendition of an otter skull, from Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon, Robert A. Sterndale, 1884. The author’s introduction makes it clear that he believes there had been… Read More ›

• YouTube OTD: Virtually Incomprehensible to non-Australians

  By tigtog on 2009-10-02 • ( 8 )

  Hitler finds out the marketing team at Kraft has decided to call the new vegemite “iSnack 2.0”.

• Belated Thursday Cheezburger – The 5th Virtue, Faith

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-02 • ( 16 )

  Huge apologies for my failure to post a Thursday Cheezburger yesterday! School holidays has me all in a muddle, schedule-wise. To compensate, I have bonus Honourable Mentions today. It’s also our monthly Delurking Day! If you’ve been reading along, give… Read More ›

• Osteoma

  By tigtog on 2009-10-02 • ( 5 )

  Well that’s a relief. Would have been nicer if I hadn’t had to wait weeks to see a specialist for less than five minutes to hear the news.

• What’s missing from local government election blurbs

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-01 • ( 7 )

  I’m looking through my local government voting papers. Issues that are on the radar in the candidate blurbs: – A healthy lifestyle for our children – beautification of streetscapes – Make the city environmentally friendly – encourage a sense of… Read More ›

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