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• Equality, all packaged up (Open obstreperation thread)

  By tigtog on 2007-04-19 • ( 3 )

  originally uploaded by LT See the comparative superheroine art at I Read Comics: Equalism Then check out the broken-back barbies in the Oh, Just Stop It. Now. post. Longstanding readers may remember a post on my original tigtogblog linking to… Read More ›

• This is what a godbag looks like

  By tigtog on 2007-04-18 • ( 12 )

  It’s not a term I use that often, but this is the simple definition of godbag that I just added to a jargon file today: godbag – religious authoritarian, theocrat That’s always what the word has meant. There are, sadly,… Read More ›

• Draft Blog Reader’s Code of Conduct: Don’t threaten to rape and kill her.

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-18 • ( 12 )

  I can’t help thinking that this whole brouhaha over O’Reilly’s proposed “Blogger’s Code” is begging to be re-jiggered along the lines of that “Don’t rape her” meme from a while back. So, my draft Blog Reader’s Code: * If a… Read More ›

• Feed the FAQs?

  By tigtog on 2007-04-17 • ( 4 )

  Updated to add: if Haloscan eats your comments over at FF101 or you have any other problems commenting there, please leave your FAQ suggestions in comments to this post. Further Update: apparently many workplace networks block Haloscan. [more] I’ve just… Read More ›

• McBrickWall on Mother’s Milk

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-17 • ( 14 )

  Further to this post about a family being threatened with removal from a Ronald McDonald House for breastfeeding – in the eating area – with one twin post-op from brain surgery and exclusively on breastmilk – and with their banishment… Read More ›

• Kurt is in heaven now

  By tigtog on 2007-04-16 • ( 4 )

  is what noted skeptical humanist, Kurt Vonnegut, wanted us all to say on his death, with a wry smile of unbelief. I don’t know much more to say than that, which is why I haven’t said anything for days since… Read More ›

• The jolly good, totally safe for work PG trailer for 300

  By tigtog on 2007-04-16

  Puppies! Flowers! Caketown! Video under the fold:

• Teachers and performance rates of pay

  By tigtog on 2007-04-16

  Pavlov’s Cat has an excellent post that lays out clearly and simply why attempting to shoehorn the complexity of educating children into some objective scale to grade teachers and pay them accordingly is ideology gone wild. More good posts about… Read More ›

• How to be a bitch

  By tigtog on 2007-04-16 • ( 9 )

  Chris Clarke has posted a fabulous thing: How To Not Be an Asshole – A Guide For Men A long way into the very long thread which ensued, a regular antifeminist commenter, Infidel Sage, wrote: We eagerly await the companion… Read More ›

• “Activist” judges: rape world round-up

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-16 • ( 3 )

  A roundup of rape in court this week, in the USA, UK and Australia. Cut for rape and child sexual abuse triggers. Carson City, Nevada, USA: the Nevada Appeal report on a plea-bargain in a child pornography case involving possession… Read More ›

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