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• Shitlist: Rip Curl

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-12 • ( 4 )

  So I had to cover a scrapbook for the Lad’s schoolwork. “No problem”, sez I. “I have to go to the Post Office anyway”, sez I. “I’ll just grab some while I’m there,” sez I. So I went to the… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 12, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-05-12 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. TAX SLUG!!!1! – different ways of viewing slugs Community Blog Round-up: Male feminists – some discussions from Feministing Monday Blogaround –… Read More ›

• So, paid parental leave. But not just yet.

  By tigtog on 2009-05-11 • ( 12 )

  Deborah has a post up at LP that asks: why the long wait until January 2011? The swift answer appears to be cynical partisan strategising, the Rudd team looking to wedge the Liberals in the next election. The thread drifts… Read More ›

• Samantha Orobator may get out of Laos, at a price

  By tigtog on 2009-05-11 • ( 22 )

  I’ve linked to a few posts about Samantha Orobator in the last week, breaking news as follows:

  A PREGNANT British woman arrested for heroin smuggling in Laos has been told she must testify she was not raped in prison in order to escape the firing squad.

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 11, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-05-11 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. … and the blind shall see – Phil Plait shows how nonsense causes harm (title unknown) – Quote: “the rehabilitation of… Read More ›

• P to the W to the N-E-D – Wanda Sykes Appreciation Thread

  By tigtog on 2009-05-11 • ( 1 )

  Wanda Sykes destroys Rush Limbaugh @ White House Correspondents’ Dinner

  If you’ve got nothing better to do today, lurk on some wingnut blogs and watch their heads explode.

• Happy Mother’s Day post

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-10 • ( 9 )

  For those of you who are mothers or who have mothers, what are you doing this Mother’s Day? I woke to cuddles and breakfast in bed. The Lad decided that scones with jam and cream were the go, and they… Read More ›

• Mother’s Day – not happy for all

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-10 • ( 6 )

  Today, I find myself thinking about women who have lost their children. Mothers who have had to give up children for adoption or have had children removed from them; women and mothers whose children were never born or were born… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 10, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-05-10

  see more Political Pictures Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please add interesting links of your own in the comments. Fair go nation has gone | The Australian – Quote:”Research in the book and on a supporting… Read More ›

• Call Kimondo a wahhhmbulance, he’s suing for blue balls

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-09 • ( 7 )

  Kenyan man James Kimondo is suing G10 women’s rights activists who urged women to engage in a week-long sex strike as a political protest, the BBC reports. And the illustration on the Beeb’s article has to be seen to be… Read More ›

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