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• Tightly focussed snark blog of the day

  By tigtog on 2008-05-21 • ( 7 )

  Things Younger than John McCain Anyone else seen any new snarkery around the intertubes lately? P.S. I took this shot on the weekend, of a bride slowly and oh so carefully picking her way through muddy ground to get to… Read More ›

• Announcing: the Down Under Feminists Carnival! Submit now.

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-20 • ( 15 )

  OK, I’ve bitten the bullet. Crunch. Announcing: the Down Under Feminists Carnival! This carnival, with submissions hosted at blogcarnival.com, is open to all feminist bloggers in Australia and New Zealand. Showcase your own posts or those of others. HOW? Submit… Read More ›

• News from the ACT

  By tigtog on 2008-05-20 • ( 9 )

  I’d much prefer it if the news about the passing of the law making same-sex civil unions legal was getting half the press that the kangaroo cull is getting. I’m much more interested that at least one of the tiers… Read More ›

• Journalwatch: Indigenous people with lung cancer receive less treatment, die sooner

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-19 • ( 7 )

  The Indigenous Health 19 May 2008 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia has just gone live, and the table of contents is available here. [Free registration is required to read the full-text articles.] This research paper leapt out at… Read More ›

• Lazy journalism: cutting and pasting and blaming

  By tigtog on 2008-05-19 • ( 2 )

  The Australian has gotten very lazy indeed. In their opinion section they now have a feature they call “Cut & Paste” where all they do is quote disjointed segments from op-ed articles originally published elsewhere – I wonder whether they… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Awards for 2007: A Retrospective

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-19 • ( 36 )

  Hoyden About Town is pleased to present: The FemmobolshoStroppo Awards: A 2007 Retrospective! You can see the nomination thread here. Bear in mind that this wasn’t a democratic vote. Our idiosyncratic nomination and selection process has resulted in a list… Read More ›

• Face of rescue: Women’s work

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-18 • ( 12 )

  Yahoo! News China has this photo of a police officer in an emergency shelter breastfeeding an orphaned baby. Heartbreaking, but somehow hopeful as well. So many babies must have no one there at all; this baby is lucky, in one… Read More ›

• Marry, Shag or chuck off a Cliff: Boots of Revenge & High Adventure edition

  By tigtog on 2008-05-18 • ( 7 )

  aka the Knocking Boots edition, hrarf-hrarf. It’s been more than a month since the last Marry, Shag or Cliff! For this edition we are revisiting some posts I made nearly two years ago now, regarding some of the cheesier celluloid… Read More ›

• Otterday

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-17 • ( 8 )

  It’s Otterday again! From Cute Otters.

• Arsehats of the week

  By tigtog on 2008-05-17 • ( 7 )

  The people posting the image below in discussion forums in response to a new California Supreme Court ruling that laws barring same-sex couples from the institution of marriage are unconstitutional (specifically, that they violated the Californian Constitution’s guarantee of equality)…. Read More ›

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