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  • Bragging on the offspring

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    The tigling just received a HD+ for her first long narrative assignment in English this year, a story about old age. I think I have a parent-crush on her teacher for writing this evaluation: Beautiful work [tigling]. Mrs Wentworth is… Read More ›

  • We’re baaaack!

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    Despite upgrading my webhosting bandwidth yesterday, we still went offline for quite a few hours. Hopefully everybody’s got the memos now.

  • Politicking While Female: Julia Gillard and the “sex class”

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    The ABC News reports today: Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey has suggested the Government’s work place policies are not as popular as Labor’s because he is not as pretty as Julia Gillard. […] He says the Government’s poor poll results… Read More ›

  • Ooh, shiny!

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    It’s been a while since I posted pretty astronomy pictures. This one caught my eye today. Image Credit: APOD Venus and the Moon appearing near to each other in the evening sky last week. I like the diffraction spikes on… Read More ›

  • Grrrr.

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    A fine rant from Amanda: Subsidized day care is murder – inspired by yet more US “pro-life” legislation against contraception that will result in increased abortion rates, the exact opposite of the fewer abortions they say they want. the notion… Read More ›

  • Young women’s activism: the next generation of abortion doctors

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    The La Time reports on what motivates the new generation of abortion doctors in the USA. Lederer, 30, can’t relate to the images that drew an older generation of physicians into abortion work. She can barely picture it when they… Read More ›

  • Feminism 101 Blog update

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    I’ve just switched the Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog over to wordpress from blogger. I had to do it as my hatred of sucky Haloscan commenting had grown from the fiery heat of a hundred red dwarfs to the raging… Read More ›

  • Workchoicesplace cases

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    Peter Lalor at the Australian‘s blogs takes a fairly standard potshot at our goverment deciding to rename the Orwellian Worckchoices scheme and then delivers a litany of cases of workers drastically disadvantaged by unscrupulous employers pushing the Howard government’s new… Read More ›

  • Andrew Denton Knows His Audience

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    His final question to the three evangelist brothers – admit it, we all wanted to know about that hair. Image Credit: ABC-TV Update: the comments below have moved more to discussing the competing claims of faith and unbelief outlined in… Read More ›

  • Oh c’mon, get angry at Hicks, c’mon!

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    The Daily Terror is desperately trying to get us all upset that Hicks is getting “perks” that the rest of us should view “with a mixture of anger, suspicion and displeasure” apparently. (Never mind that these “perks” are not anything… Read More ›