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• “Hon, it was just an AK-47!”

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-26 • ( 1 )

  Just a quickhit as I’m spoon-missing today: The Anchorage Daily News reports on a multiple-rape, assault, and murder trial underway in court this week. * Sexual violence trigger warnings.*

• Censor board hacked

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-26 • ( 5 )

  The Australian Government’s Classification board website has been hacked. The text:

  More at
  Somebody Think of the Children.

  A bit juvenile? Nos. Not particularly helpful? Sure. Illegal? Yup.

  But I can’t help but have a leetle soft spot lurking in my heart for humorous, non-destructive civil disobedience in the face of bulldozing authoritarianism.

• So who’s up for a grogblogmeet in Melbourne?

  By tigtog on 2009-03-26 • ( 10 )

  I’m there to play with a media pass for not-quite the first week of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, arriving Wednesday 1st and heading back Tuesday 7th. Who’s up for booze and food somewhere on Saturday (4th) or Sunday (5th)… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Felis catus’ Worst Criminals

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-26 • ( 17 )

  Runner-up:

• Idle musing

  By tigtog on 2009-03-25 • ( 52 )

  For all those pharmacists and nurses and doctors out there who think that they ought to be able to have a conscience clause regarding abortion? To the point of not even referring patients to willing medical practitioners?

  What do you think about the idea that a pacifist should be able to join the military and expect to draw a pay check and advance in rank while exercising a conscience clause with respect to weapons that kill people?

• Dolphins blowing bubble rings

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-25 • ( 3 )

  Did you all know about this, and just not tell me? Seaworld dolphins blowing bubble rings with their blowholes, and playing with them! And teaching each other how to do it! This has made my day. Or maybe my week…. Read More ›

• GP of the Year sees patients as people: This shouldn’t be news

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-25 • ( 4 )

  I’d just like to take a moment to excerpt an MDA magazine interview with Dr Christine Boyce, who was awarded GP of the Year 2008. Dublin-trained, Boyce practises in Tasmania. She has specific interests in teaching and in adolescent and… Read More ›

• OMG, Michelle Obama has arms!

  By Mindy on 2009-03-25 • ( 6 )

  Just look at them, they go all the way up to her shoulders. Apparently, Michelle Obama appearing in a sleeveless dress for her official portrait has got conservative American up in arms (ha! see what I did there). I mean really, she’s young, she has lovely arms why shouldn’t she show them off? Why does showing her arms make her the target of conservatives accusing her of impropriety*? What is wrong with arms?

• Yet another comparison of lactation to the Reich

  By lauredhel on 2009-03-25 • ( 7 )

  A number of people have contacted me wondering whether I’m going to say something about the Atlantic Monthly article. I think it’s had way too much oxygen already, and I really don’t want to devote hours or days of my… Read More ›

• Daily Femmostroppo Reader – March 25, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-03-25

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed Tuesday round-up March 25, 2009 – from the F-word blog Carnival of Space #95 March 24, 2009 Fox News Producers Stalk and Harass Amanda Terkel. March 25, 2009 – more linkjuice… Read More ›

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