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• Passing it on: Red Shield Day volunteers needed in South Sydney

  By tigtog on 2008-05-01

  Got an email from my MP: The Salvation Army has approached me to help recruit volunteers in South Sydney to participate in the Red Shield appeal on 24-25 May. In particular we need people in Rosebery, Redfern/Waterloo, and Erskineville. I… Read More ›

• “Save Second Base!”: The Reaction responds

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-01 • ( 1 )

  The Reaction: ” Fighting against breast cancer… and also against breast cancer campaigns” LindaBeth lays bare the sexist framework of some breast cancer awareness campaigns: “We men” love “boobies,” so we’ll work real hard so you don’t have to have… Read More ›

• Rudd govt anti-same-sex-discrimination bill depends on the Senate balance of power

  By tigtog on 2008-04-30 • ( 17 )

  The Age: The Age believes Attorney-General Robert McClelland will announce today that he will introduce amendments to Parliament as early as next month to alter around 100 federal laws. The changes will not allow gay marriages or same-sex couples to… Read More ›

• Ask Auntie Hoyden

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-30 • ( 13 )

  Don’t you just love How-people-found-us search term posts? As usual, I’ve ignored all the searches about rape, paedophilia, and pictures of fat naked women, which doesn’t leave a lot. Here are a few things people have googled this week to… Read More ›

• New to the blogroll or other bits of the blog

  By tigtog on 2008-04-29 • ( 12 )

  Here, Have A Kitty Amnesty Internationals Irrepressible Info campaign That new widget in the sidebar allows us to help “undermine censorship by publishing fragments of censored material” from some of the many websites around the world which have been censored… Read More ›

• Judge-endorsed abuse by protective services: more on the FLDS mother-child foster separation issue

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-29 • ( 3 )

  In a followup to this issue mentioned under Tigtog’s post “The FLDS polygamy and statutory rape farm”, Time Magazine has a piece on the FLDS “rescue”[1] in Texas. “The Texas Polygamist Sect: Uncoupled and Unchartered” Caught in the middle is… Read More ›

• Then and now: on acuteness and chronicity.

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-29 • ( 5 )

  I used to wait until I was sick enough to go to the doctor. Now I wait till I’m well enough to go to the doctor. I used to not mind a long wait, so long as I had plenty… Read More ›

• Various topics I’d like to blog on if I had more time

  By tigtog on 2008-04-29 • ( 5 )

  So I’ll link you to other ozbloggers who’ve done it already! Edited to add: if there’s something you were intending to blog but haven’t got around to, or wish you had blogged but somebody else said it superbly first so… Read More ›

• Horrid neologism of the Day

  By tigtog on 2008-04-29 • ( 4 )

  effectuating as in “effectuating real change”. Please, sweet Flying Spaghetti Monster, make the compulsive adding of redundant syllables stop.

• Fat is a macronutrient, not a sin: Act Three

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-29 • ( 7 )

  52 Acts of Political Correctness: Act Three [original post here, 52something meme here] Yesterday the lad came home from seeing the Wizard of Oz show, and started excitedly telling me about the characters. “And the Tin Man”, he said with… Read More ›

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