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• US Republican Party feud against UN conventions for the rights of women and children

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-08 • ( 7 )

  Shakesville has a post up pointing to the official GOP policy platform site, http://www.gopplatform2008.com. The Republican Party platform includes the following: We strongly support the long-held policy of the Republican Party known as the “Mexico City policy,” which prohibits federal… Read More ›

• SF Sunday: must read novels

  By tigtog on 2008-09-07 • ( 30 )

  I’ve only managed 5 on this list: The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life. I’ve particularly missed most of the ones less than 10 years old, except for Cryptonomicon. How about you lot? Plus: what would you… Read More ›

• Linguistics question: Pluralising proper-noun exemplars?

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-07 • ( 7 )

  I have a linguistics question for y’all. Plucked from the WA election commentary last night: “… electorates such as the Forrestfields, the Wanneroos, the Albanys…” (These three are some of the closest contests.) The obviously-singular proper nouns are turned into… Read More ›

• Web to Schlaflyites for Palin: no, you no can haz memory hole

  By tigtog on 2008-09-07 • ( 4 )

  Deleting that Palin post won’t make those questionnaire answers go away, Eagle Forum Alaska. Welcome to the world of googlecache and screensave. Palin is ignorant of basic historical facts on at least one question that she does understand (#11), and… Read More ›

• RNC and McCain’s speech: responses roundup

  By tigtog on 2008-09-06 • ( 6 )

  John McCain made his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, and others watched it so you didn’t have to. Some of them even liveblogged it.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-06 • ( 58 )

  Today’s otter is from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, via Cute Otters. They have a new African Spotted-Necked otter baby named Ziwa, after the Swahili word for “lake” or “pond”. Ziwa will be three months old tomorrow, which is getting close… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Tamsin Greig

  By tigtog on 2008-09-05 • ( 6 )

  As requested a few weeks ago, an appreciation thread for the woman who describes herself as “puffin-faced” and confesses to having extraordinary trouble with corpsing, which must be a definite drawback for an actor who works primarily in comedy. Short… Read More ›

• Wallowing in victimhood in our purple ghetto

  By lauredhel on 2008-09-05 • ( 134 )

  And the “fair and balanced” mainstream media quote of the day goes to … The Australian! From “Redefining feminism: Have activists morphed into female chauvinist piglets?”: Unlike the professional feminists who love to wallow in victimhood in their purple ghettos,… Read More ›

• Today I actually have some mild fondness for Morris Iemma

  By tigtog on 2008-09-05 • ( 12 )

  At least he made sure that Michael Costa was sacked before Iemma himself got toppled by the NSW Labor caucus. *putting champagne in the fridge*

• Linkage in lieu of a post

  By tigtog on 2008-09-05 • ( 8 )

  Lucy Tartan’s latest Reading Log is giving me ideas for my bedside book pile. Antivax: new evidence shows (again) no link to autism from Bad Astronomy by Phil Plait Best explanation for the non-existence of global warming ever from Pharyngula… Read More ›

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