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  • Applying Bill of Ockham’s sharp thing

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    Carey Roberts, a withered geriatrarch of the he-man-she-haters club, is once again complaining that women are meanyheads: in Misandry in the least likely of places Roberts clutches his pearls over the lyrics of a Country song about a revenge scenario… Read More ›

  • Insert tinnie/tinnie joke here

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    The Indigenous Affairs Minister, Mal Brough, has announced an exemption to the alcohol bans in 70 remote indigenous communities in the NT that were announced as a core component of the government’s Indigenous Emergency Plan to combat the sexual abuse… Read More ›

  • More heat than light on Haneef: where’s the transcripts then?

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    Crossposted on Larvatus Prodeo, where each of the previous Haneef threads has generated hundreds of comments. Much was made yesterday of claims that Indian police believe that there are links between Haneef and extreme jihadists. To kick this thread off,… Read More ›

  • Slouching toward Bushism

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    And the police state lurches ever closer, with the SMH today reporting on proposed legislation for “New secret search powers”. The proposed powers would give police the right to execute search, seizure and surveillance under so-called “delayed notification warrants”, without… Read More ›

  • Happy birthday, horsies

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    Image credit: orginally uploaded by g r e n Today is the official birthday of all racehorses in the Southern Hemisphere. Asked why it was essential to have all horses celebrating their birthday on the same day, Mr McCulloch said… Read More ›

  • Wednesday Wow

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    I cheated a bit for this one – instead of my usual random trawling through the Wow! image pool I deliberately looked for one with a fox in it, because of the story I heard on the radio

  • Andrews on Haneef

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    Kevin Andrews offers some explanation of the previously secret information upon which he relied. Mr Andrews said the AFP had told him before making his visa decision that police suspected the internet conversation may be evidence Dr Haneef had prior… Read More ›

  • Linkalicious: Big Tuesday Edition

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    A veritable smorgasbord for you! 1. “Intimate Politics: A Roundtable”: a downloadable podcast of a panel of feminist scholars and their reactions (not book reviews, but further musings) to the book Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for… Read More ›

  • Stereotyping feminism

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    Two contrasting examples, one using the broadest of brushes and the other dissecting stereotypes instead. Firstly, one of the run-of-the-mill “raunch culture is all the fault of feminists who talked up the sexual revolution” op-eds that are becoming soooo familiar:Feminism’s… Read More ›

  • Monday Paintblogging

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    I’m feeling way too sick to write anything much (stupid lungs), so I bring you – more kid art. Chroma Kidz washable paint on Reflex A4.