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• PinkSquee EvPsych Asshattery du jour

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-23 • ( 13 )

  [image yoinked from jZepp] Would someone just erase gender-evpsychs from the planet, please? This Beeb-reported British “study” published in Current Biology has declared that women really do prefer pink – it’s in their genes. Apparently by including Chinese volunteers as… Read More ›

• Budget forecasts from our Treasurer: incompetent or just irrelevant?

  By tigtog on 2007-08-22 • ( 2 )

  Ken L has a post up at Surfdom well worth reading: Headlines you’ll never read Costello budget hopelessly wrong Last May, the government forecast a surplus for 2006/07 of $13.6 billion. Today, it announced that the figure was actually $17.3… Read More ›

• The consideration of active consent and decriminalisation

  By tigtog on 2007-08-22 • ( 3 )

  Two Victorian stories: Rape laws strengthened. VICTORIA’s rape laws will be strengthened to ensure defendants cannot avoid being found guilty by arguing they had not considered whether a victim had consented to sex. Attorney-General Rob Hulls said several new changes… Read More ›

• Wednesday morning soapblogging

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-22 • ( 1 )

  I have a few pretties to share with you. Tie Dye Trance. This is my first five-colour swirl: purple, red, pink, orange, and blue. Making these was a whirl of arms and jugs and spoons, mixing and colouring and scenting… Read More ›

• Bob Brown: the Rudd scandal in perspective and in a nutshell

  By tigtog on 2007-08-20 • ( 8 )

  Four years ago Kevin Rudd got drunk and took himself into a strip club. Four years ago John Howard, sober, took Australia into the Iraq war. I think the electorate can judge which one did the more harm. [Source] Senator… Read More ›

• Another Mike Adams column, another day where the rest of the world wonders WTF he’s smoking

  By tigtog on 2007-08-20 • ( 8 )

  Mike Adams is a professional American conservative – he writes columns on Townhall.com and writes books about being oh so lonely as a conservative college professor fighting the Evil Liberal Agenda (TM). I have regularly read his name mentioned in… Read More ›

• Duh du jour: A cautionary tale.

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-20 • ( 6 )

  [scene: a very quiet room.] Me: [thinks] Gosh, that’s a lot of drive noise. And it’s constant, not fluctuating. Whatever could be hammering the hard drive? * checks Activity Monitor, nothing unusual Me: [thinks] Is it the new external drive?… Read More ›

• Monday Mornin’ Map

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-20 • ( 3 )

  A little while ago, I wondered what percentage of land surface has ocean or sea at its antipode. I’d fall smack into the Bermuda Triangle if I dug straight down. With a big tip o’ the Hat to Clive Feather,… Read More ›

• Speaking Truth

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-19 • ( 5 )

  Three pieces of art for you. Cancer Sampler Twisty has an amazing piece of embroidery art up on her blog. For those who don’t know her, Twisty was last year recovering from a debilitating regime of breast cancer treatment when… Read More ›

• PM admits to being warned against inappropriate behaviour

  By tigtog on 2007-08-19 • ( 23 )

  The Poison Dwarf, Glen Milne, has unleashed a story that’s been sat on since 2003 about Kevin Rudd attending a strip club in New York while drunk, at the invitation of a New York Post journalist. It’s obviously an attempt… Read More ›

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