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Packer lacked respect for women – is anybody surprised?
Stephen Mayne, in today’s Crikey! , dishes some dirt on the long-rumored philandering of Kerry Packer and his serial string of alleged mistresses over the years and ties it up in a bow of anecdotes detailing KP’s utter lack of… Read More ›
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Can rape be committed under duress?
A disturbing tale on many levels from today’s news: When duress is no argument for rape The assaulted girl in this account was obviously traumatised terribly, and there appears to be no doubt that she was raped and assaulted by… Read More ›
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I’m an amateur
I only just realised that when I turned on word verification for the comments, I also accidentally checked the ‘moderate comments’ option as well. Because I didn’t mean to do this, I didn’t check the ’email alerts’ option, so comments… Read More ›
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Blogwhoring at Pandagon
Amanda kindly lent me some space at her place while she’s off hijinking in Amsterdam. Unfortunately it appears she didn’t get my revised draft in time, so what’s up at Pandagon is crudely made and the last paragraph should just… Read More ›
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Modesty? That’s what body doubles are for!
This is the post that was meant to go up at Pandagon, although obviously Amanda didn’t get my revision in time so the crappy first draft went up instead. Fuckfuckittyfuck. There’s been a moderate amount of eyerolling ennui in the… Read More ›
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Prostitots and babywhores
I blogged a while back about the disturbing trend of sexualised dolls as toys for little girls. There’s a very interesting article in the SMH on Turning Girls Into Eye Candy. “We can’t allow marketers to colonise this nor should… Read More ›
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How the hell did I do that?
I go to add a few Sydney latte-bloggers to my sidebar, and my formatting goes to hell. You guys are bastards. UPDATE: so, now I have a whole new blog look. Hmmm. I suppose it might grow on me. So… Read More ›
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So, how does one tell the axe-murderers from the con-artists?
I’m off shortly to the Sydney latte-blog get-together. I’ve got together IRL with net-buddies before in my USENet days, and shared fun and hospitality, but whenever I speak of it to people who don’t interact online they are always concerned… Read More ›
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Dwarfed
The Tigling, who just turned 11 last October, is now officially taller than me. I didn’t overtake my mum until I was 14. She’s also taller than the Togster who turns 13 in May. They just take after different sides… Read More ›
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