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• 52nd Carnival of Feminists

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-24

  The 52nd Carnival of Feminists is up at Figure: Demystifying The Feminist Mystique.

• Overcoming electoral fatigue

  By tigtog on 2008-01-24 • ( 2 )

  After blogging the last election fairly comprehensively, I’ve really backed off from blogging parliamentary politics lately. I know I’ll get back into it, but I’ve needed a break. The good people at GetUp, however, have been indefatigable, holding meetings of… Read More ›

• Condemn it, you know you want to

  By tigtog on 2008-01-23

  Need to vent? Larvatus Prodeo has posted another in our irregular series of Open Condemnation threads (these are non-stoush threads, meant to amuse, OK?). My favourite so far: I condemn snooty MSM op-ed types that couldn’t think for themselves if… Read More ›

• Clicks, Pics, ‘n’ Politics: Assortment

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-22 • ( 6 )

  A big assortment of pictures, video, and reading today.

• Brainstorming alert

  By tigtog on 2008-01-22 • ( 2 )

  I need some input on an FAQ on “rape apology” for Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog. I want to make sure that I cover all the bases and include lots of links. Any suggestions gratefully considered.

• Lefties probably tie their shoelaces wrong, too

  By tigtog on 2008-01-21 • ( 7 )

  This piece struck a chord with me regarding some of the frequent epithets hurled at “lefties” on LP especially: why have conservatives frequently insulted the type of food (sushi-eating), type of coffee (latte-drinking), or type of alcoholic beverages (wine and… Read More ›

• Mondayitis

  By tigtog on 2008-01-21 • ( 9 )

  School holidays continue to fog my brain. Methinks I have a touch of the writers’ block. There’s been a lot of stuff about 1968 around, seeing as apparently many journalists laboriously counted their fingers and toes twice and realised that… Read More ›

• Hippocampus-blamin’: Beavis in Charge

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-19 • ( 10 )

  So Troy Buswell, the not-so-shiny new leader of the Liberal* Party in Western Australia, has got a pretty serious case of foot-in-mouth disease. You may remember Troy from such episodes as “Snapping open the Bra of a Labor Party Staffer… Read More ›

• “You’re such a buzzkill, snopes.”

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-18 • ( 6 )

  A little Friday video divertissement: What happens when Google’s parents leave town for the weekend. [NSFW.]

• Wahmbulance to the white courtesy phone: sociological concern-trolling

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-18 • ( 11 )

  Sociology Article of the Week: John H. Goldthorpe, Michelle Jackson, The British Journal of Sociology 58 (2007) (4), 525–546 “Intergenerational class mobility in contemporary Britain: political concerns and empirical findings” Couched in pseudo-rationalist arms-length language, this paper reads as a… Read More ›

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