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• Oh yeah, hit that strawfeminist harder, she’s still standing up

  By tigtog on 2007-08-31 • ( 7 )

  Men’s News Daily is at it again. They are totally twisting the important part of Jessica’s post, so in the quote below I’ll helpfully hightlight it for you in boldface. If you read the whole post and the comments, you’ll… Read More ›

• “I don’t even recognise this country any more”

  By tigtog on 2007-08-30 • ( 5 )

  I was going to write about the latest bit of blackhearted Howard government jackbootery regarding the indigenous population of the NT, but Pavlov’s Cat has already said everything I would have said much more eloquently.

• Wednesday Wow: The Wild!

  By tigtog on 2007-08-29 • ( 9 )

  Another photo from the Wow! image pool on Flickr.

• Hippo birdie two ewes

  By tigtog on 2007-08-28 • ( 10 )

  It’s my good friend ohmykozy’s birthday tomorrow (and mine as well). She was out tonight, as was I, watching the eclipse (separately). She took her jazzy camera along, and if you click on the thumbnail below you can have a… Read More ›

• “The sensible maiden will, like the wise virgin, fill her lamp with oil before the bridegroom cometh.”

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-28 • ( 8 )

  Here’s my original post introducing the 1905 Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment. Thanks for all your chapter requests! I offered you a glimpse of Chapter One: here’s the whole thing, for your edification, chortleification, and irritation. The one thing that… Read More ›

• 100%. I repeat, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT! Can’t you read? ………. oh. wait.

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-28 • ( 6 )

  I’ve blogged on the “partnership” between the International Breastmilk Project and for-profit human-milk-mining pharmaceutical company Prolacta before. To catch up: Feed the wo-orld”¦ one baby, anyhow. Salon’s “Milk Money”: media scrutiny of the IBMP-Prolacta partnership Milking it in California and… Read More ›

• “Strange emotions set the young heart throbbing and mayhap seeking for a mate.”

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-27 • ( 23 )

  More on Vitalogy later; for now, I thought I’d introduce you to the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, which I’ll feature more excerpts from as time goes on. (Note the new tag – “old books”). The Ladies’ Handbook was published… Read More ›

• Monday Magic

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-27 • ( 1 )

  Today’s magic shot – dappled tree shadows during a solar eclipse. The tiny spaces between the leaves of a tree create a multiplicity of camera obscura images on the ground. This photos was taken by Nils van der Burg in… Read More ›

• Sea-foam

  By tigtog on 2007-08-27 • ( 3 )

  This picture has generated some talkback radio discussion today: Image Source: Daily Telegraph (photo by Bill Counsell) The picture was taken at Yamba. The sea foam extends 50m across the beach and into the sea from the Surf Lifesavers club… Read More ›

• Predatory corporate capitalism

  By tigtog on 2007-08-27 • ( 3 )

  This is the phrase Robert Jensen (UT Austin) uses to describe our current economic system as not only unsustainable, but inhuman and undemocratic, in Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes. His goal is to outline to progressives how to discuss radical politics… Read More ›

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