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• Relinquishment, Remorse and failed Redemption

  By tigtog on 2006-01-26 • ( 2 )

  I wish to recommend to you a deeply moving journal of a relinquishing mother as she writes of her experiences and emotions through the years following the adoption of her first-born. Her eloquent pain is so profound that I hesitate… Read More ›

• Nikongate, complete with smoking lens(*)

  By tigtog on 2006-01-23

  Anonymous Lefty has an excellent post on the tabloid character assassination of Mark Latham over his contretemps with a press photographer following him around when he was with his children. As Armaniac comments: “…like we all wouldn’t get the impulse… Read More ›

• Blog for Choice

  By tigtog on 2006-01-23

  Yesterday was the 33rd anniversary of the court decision that made abortion legal for women in the USA – Roe v. Wade. With the coalition of the religious right with the fiscal conservatives of the Republican party having reached a… Read More ›

• Friday wine blogging

  By tigtog on 2006-01-20

  So we were having steak, and my Mr Tog said “Big Boofy Red?” and I said “Mmmmmmmmm.” He ended up grabbing a Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 from the cellar. Oh yeah. Lingering berry flavours on the mid-palate, smoky after-taste,… Read More ›

• Fighting the urge to hurl…

  By tigtog on 2006-01-19 • ( 2 )

  … a brick through the window of every store carrying these dolls, the ads for which have only just crossed my radar. Yup, a major toy manufacturer is now officially sexualising infant girls.Apparently some folks in the US have been… Read More ›

• Red Pill or Blue Pill?

  By tigtog on 2006-01-17

  Missing the good old days of adolescent existential angst? “Researchers at UCLA found that cells in the human anterior cingulate, which normally fire when you poke the patient with a needle (“pain neurons”), will also fire when the patient watches… Read More ›

• So, when Bushco really fucks up, I’m good

  By tigtog on 2006-01-16

  Could I survive the apocalypse? No worries. The True SurvivorYou scored 65 % ass-kickingness, 86% leadership, and 88% scavenging ability! Congratulations, you scored the highest in all three categories: ass-kickingness, leadership, and scavenging skills. You are definitely going to survive… Read More ›

• James Frey’s fictional non-fiction – more than just a personal flaw

  By tigtog on 2006-01-15

  It is very frightening that many, perhaps millions of people’s understanding of addiction has been grossly perverted by a fraudulent book that started its life as an overt work of fiction. So says my old mate Kev, over at Sufficient… Read More ›

• Apparently, laughing at them sometimes works

  By tigtog on 2006-01-13

  In response to me and everybody’s dog mocking them yesterday: No Brokeback blackoutJanuary 13, 2006 – 10:49AM Roadshow Films denies claims that it will not be releasing Brokeback Mountain in regional areas of Far North Queensland. Goodness me, mockery on… Read More ›

• Pooftas, we don’t let our sons grow up to be Gayboys

  By tigtog on 2006-01-13 • ( 3 )

  “Maybe there are some (gay cowboys) out there but I’ve never heard of ’em,” he said. “I mean, it’s not a profession that attracts those sort of people.” So says Bob “mad as a” Katter, Federal MP for the Kennedy… Read More ›

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