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  • Non-sequiturs

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    I’ve just forgotten what I was about to blog. In the meantime: A few moments ago I accidentally stepped backwards on to my cat’s paw. She yowled and then leaped several feet around the corner, so that she could glare… Read More ›

  • Good luck, Janet.

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    Kids lose out when dad works long hours EMPLOYERS should help fathers leave work early to spend quality time with their children, a parenting expert says. Janet Cater believes disruptive and difficult children often feel abandoned by fathers who work… Read More ›

  • Something to remember the next time someone warns “we’ll all be rooned”

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    No smoke signals a boom for pubs, clubs NON-SMOKERS have flocked to pubs since they went smoke-free in July, a government survey has found. And public support for the smoking ban is at an all-time high. Remember the campaign against… Read More ›

  • MSM vs Bloggers Smackdown: MSM still languishing in coma.

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    Wiggle in her Walk: Anatolian Neolithic Goddess Anyone who still has faith in the veracity of mainstream media “science reporting” really, really needs to start reading Ben Goldacre at badscience.net, despite his grating misuse of prostitution metaphors. Goldacre has blasted… Read More ›

  • Women for Wik

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    Women for Wik are back. Women for Wik is a group of Australian women, including indigenous women and allies to the cause of rights for indigenous people. Founders and supporters include Lady Deane, writer Rosie Scott, former Chairperson of ATSIC… Read More ›

  • Spring

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    .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSC_0004, originally uploaded by tigitogs. Did I mention I got a new camera? One of the… Read More ›

  • Friday Hoyden: Helen Mirren

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    From an interview by Louis B. Hobson of the Calgary Sun, Sunday, January 26, 1997: Mirren warns that people shouldn’t confuse her with the stately and staid characters she often plays. “I’ve always been a bit of a wild thing… Read More ›

  • Linkation: Broken trust, Hammer time, and dino shoes.

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    Some weekend reading for you: ABC News: “Doctor criticises Indigenous child health checks” Maningrida doctor Paul Burgess says the checks, part of the Federal Government’s intervention into Indigenous child sex abuse, are being carried out by inexperienced doctors who know… Read More ›

  • Feminism Friday snarkfest: “See what you made us do?”

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    A Christian white male junior college student launches into a tirade about feminism, in a stomach-churning expansion of the “Now see what you made me do?” principle. “What about a pole dancer mother?” Highlights and translations: … but the point… Read More ›

  • Another invisible mother

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    In “Motherless birthing, and the one-way street of obstetric ‘choice’ “, I talked about a news story in which the hero was the person “delivering” the baby on a plane, and the mother was invisible. Well, here’s another one. [image… Read More ›