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  • Harradine’s poverty legacy continues

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    Sue Dunlevy writes an excellent column today on the legacy of Senator Brian Harradine, who held the balance of power in the Australian Senate for long enough to drag our foreign aid policy into a position whereby, Dunlevy argues, we… Read More ›

  • Othering and hate crime legislation

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    Wherever so-called hate-crime legislation is passed, the strawmen get built and waved around at an alarming rate. The biggest strawman in the current debate about hate crime legislation in the USA is that it gives gays, blacks, non-Christians special rights… Read More ›

  • What goes around comes around: sins of the fathers division

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    Via Ann at Feministing, we find that a young woman athlete who has unwillingly become an Internet poster object has a father whose career in law has consisted of several high profile defences of men who objectify, harass and sexually… Read More ›

  • Engage obstreperal lobes

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    Lauredhel has updated her post from last month about the lack of transparency surrounding ProLacta’s International Breastmilk Project with the latest news. As thought, they couldn’t lie straight in bed. Feed the wo-orld”¦ one baby, anyhow. UPDATE (8 June 2007)… Read More ›

  • Sunrise this morning

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    Winter sunrises in Sydney often have interesting light patterns against the morning clouds. This morning we got classic crepuscular rays. The depth of shadow cast across the sky was extraordinary. There’s a few more shots in my Flickr photostream, and… Read More ›

  • Ha!

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    Sometimes, YouTube is comedy gold: It’s Raining 300 Men Updated to Add: belated tip of the topper to evil fizz, over at Feministe. Read the whole post and thread to get most benefit of context for the clip above 🙂

  • Why buy the cow, when you can buy a cat?

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    The lolcats phenomenon spreads ever wider. We’ve seen loltheorists (HAI I HAS PANOPTICON – I C U!) lolpresidents (PREZIDENCY: Yor doin it wrong.) lolbots (EYEZ HAZ A FLAVOR, NOM NOM NOM) loltrek (WHOA THEY BE ALWAYS PREGGERS) and the LOLcky… Read More ›

  • Hoyden lives

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    Our webhost’s server chucked a tanty, so Hoyden was down for at least several hours (I discovered the problem approx 2 hours ago). Anyway, our lovely and talented tech support have sorted it out, so we’re back. As you were.

  • Beef Wellington time

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    Oh yes, I has new computer in my old case (with a video card combo that’s fast enough to play YouTubes properly at last), and we has ‘nother new computer hooked up to telly, and the old guts of my… Read More ›

  • Can US citizens trust the USDA on beef? Can any of us?

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    Let’s just remind ourselves of some recent history: In 2001, Australia banned the importation of beef and beef products from Japan after a single confirmed case of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy). The USA and many other countries also banned beef… Read More ›