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• Iraq too dangerous for Harry (and his tank unit)

  By tigtog on 2007-05-17 • ( 4 )

  Shorter desperate Whitehall spin: but the rest of you will be just fine, honest, even if you’re not in a tank unit, and of course the COW is totally winning in Iraq. [news story] ———————————————————- Chris Heyman, an ex-military editor… Read More ›

• I’m thinking that getting dressed would start to require real attention to detail

  By tigtog on 2007-05-17

  You really wouldn’t want to get these jackets mixed up once the online interaction systems get properly sorted. Exhibit A: Feel an online hug just like the real thing Jacket made to measure for love from afar Exhibit B: Self… Read More ›

• Loving, steadfast companion or alluring, wanton adventuress?

  By tigtog on 2007-05-16 • ( 4 )

  (my post on Monday regarding the Mary Jane sculpture reminded me that this was hanging around in the drafts folder from months ago) The last three words of the post title leapt out at me from amongst the denser verbiage… Read More ›

• Jerry Falwell, dead aged 73

  By tigtog on 2007-05-16 • ( 3 )

  So he got his threescore years and ten, then. TANJ, except that he simply won’t get the glorious afterlife he’s been expecting. The Carpetbagger Report has a timeline of various highlights of his bigoted authoritarian ranting career. (via Ginmar)

• Healthist cheerleading

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-15 • ( 2 )

  Disease ‘n’ disability romanticists need to read this, at Twisty’s place. Twisty has a pile of sometimes scary and always downright nasty post-cancer-treatment symptoms. I’m even hopping madder that I find myself capitulating. “So how’re you doing?” people ask me,… Read More ›

• After Bastard Boys

  By tigtog on 2007-05-15

  There was quite a bit of chest beating about bias with regard to the ABC drama Bastard Boys broadcast over the last two nights. Certainly the show is unlikely to do Greg Combet’s electoral chances any harm at all. But… Read More ›

• Breastfeeding Manifesto

  By tigtog on 2007-05-15 • ( 10 )

  That’s the document spearheading a UK campaign from five royal colleges of medicine, nursing and midwifery and backed by UNICEF, which aims to introduce laws supporting breastfeeding mothers by making it an offense for anyone to attempt to stop a… Read More ›

• Good for the gander

  By tigtog on 2007-05-14 • ( 8 )

  via Tama Leaver‘s post on a fanboy collectible of Mary Jane from the Spiderman comics (which I have seen around the feminist gamer/comics sites this week already) I find that Nancy Lorenz at GirlWonder.org has done a parody to show… Read More ›

• Crook as a chook

  By tigtog on 2007-05-13 • ( 4 )

  and a very busy weekend too. Saturday was the extended family get-together for Mothers’ Day and the togster’s birthday (both of which were actually today, but my brother’s partner wanted a nuclear family day for her first Mothers’ Day as… Read More ›

• Linkalectable #1: Radfem Carnival, prison in Uganda, the medico-rehabilitatio-industrial complex, the Australian Budget, and women go to bat against foreign multinationals in the Philippines

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-12 • ( 1 )

  Linkalectable. 1. The First Carnival of Radical Feminists at Women’s Space. Heart grounds current-day radical feminism in the history of the movement, recalls the many achievements of radical feminism, and smacks down the dismissive dysperception that radfems are immersed in… Read More ›

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