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• Maternity Services Review: Medicare payments to OBs up from $77m to $211m since 2004.

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-21 • ( 24 )

  Update 16 Sep 2009: Last year’s $211 million figure for taxpayer-funded obstetric care, mostly of pregnancies and births that are or could have been normal, has blown out further to $298 million. [Via the Courier Mail.] ~~~ The Maternity Services… Read More ›

• Otterday, and Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-21 • ( 40 )

  This otter, courtesy of IRGlover on flickr, is begging for a caption. (For a simple captioning tool, try roflbot.) Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your… Read More ›

• Antibreastfeeding Bingo

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-20 • ( 58 )

  We’ve done the other Bingos, and this one’s long overdue. With a nod to all the misogynist trolls out there who’ve provided the material for this card, I present: Antibreastfeeding Bingo! It’s focussed on public breastfeeding conversations, not “mommy wars”… Read More ›

• Therapeutic Photoshoppery

  By tigtog on 2009-02-19 • ( 10 )

  Feel free to copy and use for troll-quelling as required.

• Quick Hit: She’s a WOMAN

  By Beppie on 2009-02-19 • ( 3 )

  [Everything is under the fold; trigger warnings apply]

• A soupçon of good, a whole mess of lazy “advice”

  By tigtog on 2009-02-19 • ( 15 )

  For once here’s some relationship advice which talks about the way the men and women are TRAINED from an early age to act differently in response to life’s annoyances and pains. That’s a refreshing change from all those articles which try and paint gender-differences in emotional responses as being due to innate genetic XX vs XY differences.

• Troll-Off: Poll results

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-19 • ( 6 )

  Many thanks to those who voted in our inaugural Troll-Off competition. Troll-Off Results: ~~~ Gold Medal, with 35% of the vote: No. 7, A. “god is punishing them for imbred sodomy” Lavey. Lavey may have had the advantage of topicality… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-19 • ( 15 )

  Runner-up:

• Project Steve hits #1000

  By tigtog on 2009-02-18 • ( 7 )

  Enter one of my favourite creationist-countering initiatives: the USA-based National Centre for Science Education (NCSE) created Project Steve many years ago now, as a response to the people who asked them for a list of actual scientists who do support evolution.

• Whoydensday: Fanvids!

  By Beppie on 2009-02-18 • ( 13 )

  O, video editing software, how I love thee so! Actually, I have very little skill with video editing software, nor do I have the time to acquire such skills, but fortunately, there are plenty of people with an abundance of… Read More ›

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