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• Anthropological fascination link of the day

  By tigtog on 2009-08-28 • ( 9 )

  There’s smart/sassy remarks, making political points, social justice calls, promoting the latest hotspot, and shaming of friends/lovers behaving badly. Some of it is funny, some of it is progressive, lots of it is very reactionary, and wow: it’s hard to look away.

• Question

  By tigtog on 2009-08-28 • ( 11 )

  Is it very, very wrong of me to have subscribed for years to the newsletter of the Aussie arm of the LaRouchites just for the laffs?

• Tom Calma: Indigenous Advisory Body to have Full Gender Equality at All Levels

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-27 • ( 5 )

  Tom Calma, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, announced today at the National Press Club the proposed formation of a new national advisory body to bring the voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to the Minister,… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Pride, the Last Deadly Sin

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-27 • ( 9 )

  Runner Up:

• Femmostroppo Reader – August 27, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-08-27 • ( 10 )

  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. Mindblowing SF Lists – “We have to be responsible for keeping track of and highlighting and… Read More ›

• Aaaaand – we’re back!

  By tigtog on 2009-08-27 • ( 13 )

  Muggins here wasn’t watching the bandwidth meter. Sorted now.

• Inaccessible toilets in large venues? AFDO is looking for your input.

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-26 • ( 6 )

  From Leah Hobson of the AFDO [Australian Federation of Disability Organisations] : AFDO needs your help. We’re keen to give Bill Shorten [Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services] examples of large venues which don’t do accessible toilets very well…. Read More ›

• Northern Territory Aboriginal people seek refugee status with UN

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-26 • ( 4 )

  ABC Online: “Aboriginal people seek refugee status” A group of Aboriginal people has asked the United Nations to register them as refugees, saying the Northern Territory intervention has made them outcasts in their own country Richard Downs, a spokesperson for… Read More ›

• Classic Action: Blue Thunder (1983) – He’s Out There

  By tigtog on 2009-08-26 • ( 3 )

  I had the chance to catch up on this classic action flick this week, so I was able to tick another off my list of ’80s Films that I Inexplicably Missed. (I have confessed to my weakness for cheezy shoot-em-up movies before, but newer readers might not be aware) It also had Malcolm McDowell as the baddie, and I do so enjoy a film where Malcolm flares his nostrils and bugs his eyes while saying outrageously repulsive things and ends up dying spectacularly (not going to include a spoiler warning for that, that was his sole function in 80s American cinema, so it was never a total surprise).

• Things annoying me today

  By Mindy on 2009-08-26 • ( 20 )

  The parents of a 13 year old girl encouraging her to sail solo around the world. She is keen to do it, don’t get me wrong, I just think that 13 is too young, boy or girl, to be doing… Read More ›

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