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• Reason #4297 why I love this country

  By tigtog on 2007-05-11 • ( 5 )

  This morning, a breakfast TV announcer on a nationally broadcast programme forgot herself for a moment and said “oh bugger, I missed [XYZ trivial feelgood thing]”. The TV network will probably get a small flurry of letters from people who… Read More ›

• Friday Fluffy linkfest

  By tigtog on 2007-05-11 • ( 2 )

  Ripped from my feedreader this week: Mentis Fugit gives us the story of two US military veterans deciding to bestow their Purple Hearts on two separate individuals they felt worthy of the decoration. Men and Women like different films (except… Read More ›

• Snippets of good news on reproductive rights: Skin Of Our Teeth edition

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-11 • ( 7 )

  I bring you four snippets of good news on reproductive rights, two from the USA, one from Ireland, and one from Mexico. People are fighting for women’s rights, and in some places they’re hanging on — just. I think the… Read More ›

• Ever found that whole Mars/Venus male/female thing sorta suss?

  By tigtog on 2007-05-10 • ( 8 )

  You’re not alone. The problem is that John Gray knows very well how to hit all the socially constructed hot buttons on male entitlement and female submission so that readers infer the message that Venusians have only themselves to blame… Read More ›

• MPs shocked, utterly shocked

  By tigtog on 2007-05-10 • ( 6 )

  A cautionary tale from across the ditch: Maia, of Capitalism Bad, Tree Pretty, has a post up in the sad told-you-so category, Politicians Shocked About Predictable Consequences of their Policies. The policy in this case was New Zealand’s public health… Read More ›

• Another one for the social crime list: Parenting While Disabled

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-09 • ( 4 )

  A few days ago, I talked a bit about invisible disability and the access issues that people seem to just not think about. Today I’ve been reading the Blogging Against Disablism Day posts at Diary of a Goldfish. Tokah has… Read More ›

• “I’ve never known what happened to that woman.”

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-09

  Good Enough Mum narrates her journey from being pro-life in her youth to be pro-choice today. She tells the story of a woman she saw in her final year of medical school. The woman was carrying an anencephalic fetus, and… Read More ›

• I’ve got a little list

  By tigtog on 2007-05-09 • ( 11 )

  The above stresses deformities and injuries are all foreseeable and even inevitable consequences of longterm wearing of high heeled shoes.

• Holy Act of Congress, Batman!

  By tigtog on 2007-05-09 • ( 2 )

  Who else went through the three phases of Adam West’s Batman? Wide eyed young kid taking BAM! BIFF! utterly seriously, pseudosophisticate thinking it was oh so silly kidstuff, then suddenly rediscovering it through ironic hipster eyes and loving all the… Read More ›

• Wotcher, orright?

  By tigtog on 2007-05-08 • ( 3 )

  Which God or Goddess are you like? Your Result: God Zeus   You are Zeus. You are fierce and stong, and you like to throw lightning bolts at people who deserve it. You are fearless when it comes to fear,… Read More ›

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