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• Sex Contracts and Withdrawing Consent

  By tigtog on 2007-02-08 • ( 5 )

  Via Twisty, this story from Time Magazine (bolded emphasis mine): A Time Limit on Rape If a woman consents to having sex with a man but then during intercourse says no, and the man continues, is it rape? The answer… Read More ›

• Ooh, new blogfind.

  By tigtog on 2007-02-07

  Through a livejournal friends page, I discovered the Feminist Anti-Oppression Forum when I read this article: Unbelievable, reproducing a column by FOXNews Women and Business opinion writer Megan Dowd. Commentors noted a few awkward lines that read like they were… Read More ›

• Blogkeeping

  By tigtog on 2007-02-07 • ( 3 )

  I’ve added a couple of new functions for comments. 1. HTML quicktags – for easy text-formatting and link insertion. Highlight the text you want formatted/linked and click on the appropriate tag-button. 2. Email subscription to comments – you can subscribe… Read More ›

• Any search string that leads to Molly Ivins is a good search string

  By tigtog on 2007-02-07 • ( 4 )

  Sometimes following links that turn up in sitemeter is a joy rather than the usual ennui of seeing how many pervs are finding a link to this blog in a search engine. I like to think the pervs get a… Read More ›

• Grieving again

  By tigtog on 2007-02-06 • ( 11 )

  The fabulous picture above was done by Olduvai George a few years ago, portraying Chris Clarke and his dog Zeke in the Pleistocene Death Valley. (hat-tip, Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony) A few days ago I found out through… Read More ›

• Conservative bloggers channel Jan Brady: Marcotte! Marcotte! Marcotte!

  By tigtog on 2007-02-06

  Cut and pasted from a comment I left over at my LP post on bloggers joining political campaigns in the US (related to this Hoyden post from last week): Ha. The predicted conservative blogger meltdown about Amanda Marcotte joining the… Read More ›

• What a show!

  By tigtog on 2007-02-06 • ( 1 )

  Regular readers, I’m talking up the Astronomy Picture of the Day site again. This was taken in Perth on Australia Day (yes, it’s a panorama made from separate shots). The faint streak in the sky just left of centre is… Read More ›

• DJs sues thinktank over report on sexualised images of children in advertising

  By tigtog on 2007-02-05 • ( 3 )

  Todays SMH: Sex, lies and advertising: DJs sues over child exploitation claims IN WHAT is believed to be a world first, David Jones begins a legal case tomorrow in which it is suing the left-leaning think tank the Australia Institute… Read More ›

• Weekend walking

  By tigtog on 2007-02-04 • ( 3 )

  So, mr tog and I decided, on our return from abroad, that we really should keep up this walking-around-with-the-kids habit we’d developed over the 4 weeks of sightseeing. Instead of just lounging around the house on Saturdays, we should get… Read More ›

• Dear BBC, why is this picture part of this story?

  By tigtog on 2007-02-04

  What does this very well-muscled young man have to do with an exciting innovation in nanotechnology? Very little, but apparently because the new nanotech engine is similiar in size to our bodies’ own “engines” that make our muscles contract, BBC… Read More ›

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