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• The invisible soldiers

  By tigtog on 2007-05-28

  Ginmar, a military veteran of the Iraq war wading through the twisty maze of Veteran’s Affairs forms (all looking alike), is not celebrating the Memorial Day holiday this US long weekend: We are now engaged in two more wars, and… Read More ›

• Been trying to find the words

  By tigtog on 2007-05-28 • ( 29 )

  The Nandos Portuguese Chicken withdrawal-patch pole-dancing commercials. That probably doesn’t make sense to anyone who hasn’t seen them. [link] I have been slackjawed for the last fortnight since I first saw the ads. I truly thought they’d be taken off… Read More ›

• 3000 votes: Boot Howard out of Bennelong

  By tigtog on 2007-05-27 • ( 4 )

  I like this local initiative from some voters in the Prime Minister’s electorate of Bennelong, whose major slogans are: A Future without John Howard? It all hangs on 3000 votes. Just because Howard is the PM, doesn’t mean he has… Read More ›

• Australian linguistocide, and antipodeal approaches to aboriginal education

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-26 • ( 4 )

  I have a Google News alert set up for, among many other things, the word “aboriginal”. Yesterday, two contrasting stories dropped into my inbox. First, ABC News (Australia) reports that it’s indigenous people’s own darn fault if they’re unemployed and… Read More ›

• Maybe they need Bruce Willis for the voiceover

  By tigtog on 2007-05-25 • ( 6 )

  Synchronicity or a trend? Two posts in my feed-reader today which feature forced-birthers using talking fetuses as the sure-fire strategy to convince women that abortion is always always always wrong. Kevin T Keith (yay, a post from Kevin!) at Sufficient… Read More ›

• Previously Unknown Phenomenon

  By tigtog on 2007-05-25 • ( 13 )

  This is the container of leftover sausages I put away in the frig last night. This morning when I woke up and went to the frig for milk, not a single one of those sausages had been eaten. What can… Read More ›

• Feed the wo-orld… one baby, anyhow.

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-25 • ( 17 )

  UPDATE: 4 June 2007 Jill Youse has finally responded in the Mothering forums. We were absolutely correct. Prolacta is skimming off 75% of milk donated by mothers for Africa, for sale and for profit within the USA. Prolacta is “reimbursing”… Read More ›

• Sorry Matters, and Assimilation

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-25 • ( 6 )

  Over the past week there has been a huge amount of discussion in the femiblogosphere about dropping the defensive, domineering blustering and starting to listen to people of colour. Listening has got to be step one if there is to… Read More ›

• Invisible Lesbians!

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-24 • ( 1 )

  Over on Larvatus Prodeo, people have been discussing the “invisible lesbians” in (or rather, not in) the press photo of Mary Cheney and Heather Poe’s brand new son. Cheney and Bush have all been carefully skirting press questions about their… Read More ›

• Strewth! Flash used for not-evil!

  By tigtog on 2007-05-24

  A Flash animation of Tom Lehrer’s The Elements song. It’s glorious.

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