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• Vale Michael Jackson

  By tigtog on 2009-06-26 • ( 3 )

  Wow, I look away from Twitbin for an hour and it explodes: Michael Jackson taken to hospital after being found not breathing, then announced as in a coma and then pronounced dead.

• Femmostroppo Reader – June 26, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-06-26

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. A skeptical reading list – Procrastination aid supreme Cooking: A Primitive Protection Racket – Fascinating Rape In Prison Should Not… Read More ›

• Gone too far?

  By lauredhel on 2009-06-25 • ( 33 )

  Those who think that society has “gone too far” in supporting breastfeeding, that mothers who formula feed are demonised and breastfeeding mothers aren’t: Show me the women who are losing their jobs for formula feeding. Show me the women who… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – June 25, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-06-25 • ( 2 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Not-stalgia – thoughtful and provoking post from Caitiecat FP goes all Margaret and David like (with possibly slightly more colourful… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Transformations

  By lauredhel on 2009-06-25 • ( 8 )

  Runnerup:

• Homebirth to become illegal in a year.

  By lauredhel on 2009-06-25 • ( 12 )

  I’ve been meaning to write a big post on this, but it just hasn’t happened. So here’s a little one. Read some background at “Homebirth Ban” “Maternity Services Review: Medicare payments to OBs up from $77m to $211m since 2004.”… Read More ›

• The Judge Files: It’s not sex genital piercing, it’s rape

  By lauredhel on 2009-06-24 • ( 8 )

  [WARNINGS, sexual assault of children] From the Shitty Things Judges Say files, we have this case from Melbourne: news.com.au “Genital piercers avoid jail for sex assault”. Two tattoo artists from Tattoo City, Mark Andrew Ford (50) and Gregory Alan Ford… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – June 24, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-06-24

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Original ABWs: Harriet Tubman – “I needed this role model, as a young black girl. Despite all my exposure to… Read More ›

• Gratuitous Pirate Boots blogging

  By tigtog on 2009-06-23 • ( 20 )

  Inspired by this vid linked to by Fyodor over at LP, I went searching for vids featuring Kevin Kline in the 1982 production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. So here he is striking Pirate King poses while listening… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – June 23, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-06-23

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Newsweek bemoans "slutty" brides – “Shoulder-baring brides with jaunty hats are clearly strumpets.” Is the burqa a prison? – “It’s… Read More ›

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