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• Where the wild political parodies are

  By tigtog on 2007-07-13 • ( 15 )

  My ISP hates me and I can’t hardly browse anything at the moment. Luckily I have siblings with computers who also have kids whose cuteness is second only to mine own sprogs’ cuteness who can be blogged about. Image credit:… Read More ›

• Fundiewatch: a Catholic prenatal diagnosis “counselling service”

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-13 • ( 4 )

  Two of our local Catholic hospital networks have collaborated to offer a new so-called “counselling service, dubbed “Mamreh”. These two hospitals combined have a lot of community credibility already, as they provide the vast majority of private-hospital maternity services in… Read More ›

• Whatever game that’s in aid of, you can play it on your own

  By tigtog on 2007-07-12 • ( 8 )

  Scene: Chez togmob, master bedroom, early hours. The senior togmobbers are engaged in lustful pursuits, when mr tog reaches playfully into the bedside drawer, and flourishingly extracts A SHOEHORN. tigtog: Eep! mr tog: oh.. er.. um.. not what I meant… Read More ›

• This is nasty.

  By tigtog on 2007-07-11 • ( 13 )

  Although I am, to quote an old Sandra Boynton gag, “eruditer than you” (or at least most), I still found reading through the composition quoted below involved more than a handful of false starts and reversals. Via Making Light, via… Read More ›

• Smouldering: most Australians rape apologists

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-11 • ( 9 )

  We’ve posted a bit about the mangy asshats who think that certain women and girls deserve to be raped – fat women, for example, or preteen girls who wear particular types of underwear. And we’ve posted about Nice Guy(tm) sexual… Read More ›

• New study results: recent global warming not due to solar effects

  By tigtog on 2007-07-10 • ( 1 )

  From The Australian (!): THE key plank of a controversial British documentary has been discredited by new research showing that the sun is not causing global warming. The findings are in stark contrast to claims made in the documentary The… Read More ›

• A timeline to think upon

  By tigtog on 2007-07-10 • ( 4 )

  If Iran Were America (And We Were Iran): A Timeline This is a very well done example of reversing protagonists and putting shoes on other feet. It’s also a useful pointer for people who have been previously unaware of just… Read More ›

• Living Black

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-09 • ( 6 )

  First, a news snippet: The Age: Indigenous land takeover angers NT govt NT Attorney-General [and Member for Nhulunbuy] Syd Stirling said Aboriginal communities territory-wide were angry, confused and talking of legal action. He said the territory government was seeking advice… Read More ›

• I’m baaaaack!

  By tigtog on 2007-07-09 • ( 6 )

  And most remiss in not thanking the delicious Guest Hoyden’s for helping Lauredhel keep the blog ticking over in my absence until after I’d made two posts today. Thank you, thank you bluemilk, Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony, sajbrfem… Read More ›

• Work/Life/Family Balance in NSW

  By tigtog on 2007-07-09 • ( 8 )

  On a day dominated by the media attempting to beat up a story about NSW Premier Morris Iemma taking time off to spend the school holidays with his young children, another story got hardly any traction. Both stories tie into… Read More ›

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