Hoyden About Town

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• Wish I could read German

  By tigtog on 2007-08-10 • ( 2 )

  I love the button anyway. Wonder why the button’s in English when the site isn’t?

• One whole day in committee

  By tigtog on 2007-08-10 • ( 4 )

  Andrew Bartlett notes that the Government has used its Senate majority to stifle thorough examination and debate of the legislation it’s proposing over indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and over water management in the Murray-Darling Basin: both bills were… Read More ›

• Flimsy. Wimpy. Weak. The Parliamentary Breastfeeding Inquiry Report.

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-09 • ( 14 )

  The discourse around breastfeeding, both public and private tends to flit between two summations: “Mothers should breastfeed” and “Mothers shouldn’t feel guilty”. I’m guessing that regular Hoydenistas have spotted the framing problem already: “Mothers should”. (If you’re a mother, are… Read More ›

• Note to SBS

  By tigtog on 2007-08-09 • ( 6 )

  A couple of old bones which cause a revision of an evolutionary timeline model (about which species coexisted with which others when) do not “cast doubt on the theory of human evolution”. All this discovery may mean is that instead… Read More ›

• Absolute classic

  By tigtog on 2007-08-09

  AussieBob over at Road to Surfdom does a spoof reply from our PM to the Kevin07 stuff – John007 | Cabinet: The Movie. Bonzer.

• Another Howard YouTube, another day of the corporate media taking the bait

  By tigtog on 2007-08-09

  Mark and others have previously pointed out that Howard is not using YouTube to actually reach out to YouTubers, he is using it to game the news cycle. The applications for the Armed Forces Gap Year program open today, after… Read More ›

• Predictable

  By tigtog on 2007-08-09 • ( 8 )

  The one time I read a newspaper report of a social study that actually is reported with a bit of attention to fine distinctions and looks like a reasonable summary of the actual journal paper, what happens? The comments section… Read More ›

• Being assimilated

  By tigtog on 2007-08-08 • ( 1 )

  Our HAT Facebook group is now up and running, with 20 members so far! So, I wish to have a Sydney Femmobolsho Gathering towards the end of this month, if we can get enough people willing to down margaritas somewhere… Read More ›

• Wednesday Wow – photoshop edition

  By tigtog on 2007-08-08 • ( 1 )

  …this is just a really appealing image…

  Click through for two contrasting totally natural shots of a dune in Namibia at dawn and dunes in Libya at sunset.

• The irrational electorate and economics

  By tigtog on 2007-08-08 • ( 4 )

  Ross Gittins today in the SMH, regarding the bewilderment of the Howard government’s economic-rationalism ideologues as to why we sheeple aren’t more happy about the wonderful economy: It’s not only the economy, stupid Gittins points out that growth in real… Read More ›

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