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• “Letting his lust get the better of him”

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-20 • ( 11 )

  Cut for nasssty rape triggers.

• Another for the “beware delegating authority to thugs who like uniforms” file

  By tigtog on 2008-02-19

  A baby from Samoa who had been approved entry to the USA for heart surgery in Honolulu dies after being detained in the airport without an oxygen mask due to questions over his mother’s visa (the accompanying nurse and the… Read More ›

• Repellent Robbo, rape apologist

  By tigtog on 2008-02-19 • ( 19 )

  Clive Robertson, the man once considered a charmingly irascible curmudgeon on top rated TV and radio shows now battles to retain a midnight to dawn talk-back radio show, and if there’s any justice then what Media Watch revealed last night… Read More ›

• Howard’s End on Four Corners

  By tigtog on 2008-02-18 • ( 1 )

  Quite rivetting. The irony of them racing off to the ABC for the prestige after years of slagging them as partisan won’t escape anyone, I’m sure. Transcript and streaming video [Flash] [Windows Media Player] on the Four Corners site. There’s… Read More ›

• Graeme Reeves: Medical rape culture and collegiality

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-18 • ( 108 )

  [image source: cirp.org] NineMSN’s Sunday reports: “Who Watches the Doctors?”: A woman goes into her local hospital for routine minor surgery to remove a tiny lesion on her labia. But just before the anaesthetic is administered, her doctor leans over… Read More ›

• AntiFeminist Bingo 2

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-18 • ( 27 )

  I now present:

  Anti-feminist Bingo: The Sequel!

  Enjoy your troll-mocking.

• The continuing Bushite erosion of rights and liberties

  By tigtog on 2008-02-18

  Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, op-eds for the New York Times: My policy as the chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantánamo was that evidence derived through waterboarding was off limits…. Read More ›

• Hypocrite Watch: Ben Stein et al

  By tigtog on 2008-02-18

  Bunch of uptight chaps make a documentary (Expelled) about how academia is repressing the rough and tumble of free speech about biological evolution (they think evolution is a pernicious myth). Same bunch of uptight chaps hold “press conferences” where instead… Read More ›

• Last minute film alert

  By tigtog on 2008-02-17 • ( 11 )

  Tonight. 8:30 AEST. The Lion In Winter on Fox Classics. Oldie but goodie, with the older historical hoyden Eleanor of Aquitaine playing a key role (interpreted by Katharine Hepburn). Also Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Terry and a very young… Read More ›

• “Please don’t push me off my Segway.”

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-17 • ( 9 )

  A couple of days ago, I talked about the harm done by busybodies and assholes who proceed on the assumption that everyone they meet must be able-bodied until proven otherwise. From the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend comes an article:… Read More ›

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