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• Quicklink: Beauty and the Beast, Love Actually and the skill of consuming media critically

  By mimbles on 2012-12-30 • ( 13 )

  

  From gyzym on Tumblr: just shut up …consuming media critically is a skill, and in an age where media is more prevalent than ever before, it’s a skill worth having. It’s a skill worth having because you are going to… Read More ›

• Media Circus: yes it’s still the silly season edition

  By tigtog on 2012-12-30 • ( 4 )

  

  What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2012-12-29 • ( 36 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Movie Thread – Hobbits! An Unexpected Journey

  By tigtog on 2012-12-28 • ( 17 )

  

  What did you think?

• Friday Hoyden: Nieceblogging – what’s she making?

  By Helen on 2012-12-28 • ( 4 )

  Here she is bonding with her Dad over the Christmas break by doing a little gadget construction. Bonding with your daughters doing electronics, woodwork, mechanics or baking: A very feminist thing to do over the holidays and there should be a lot more of it.

• Doctor Who Spoilers and Speculation Thread

  By tigtog on 2012-12-28 • ( 13 )

  

  The Whovians are taking over the Xmas thread, so I’m moving the discussion here.

• Education is a political issue. This is why.

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-12-24 • ( 12 )

  

  This, “For many poor students, leap to college ends in a hard fall” is a very well-executed piece in The New York Times. It follows three talented, but terribly disadvantaged, girl students who make it into university but then manage… Read More ›

• Quicklink: NRA Press Conference

  By tigtog on 2012-12-22 • ( 4 )

  

  Ugh. The hypocrisy of calling for a national database of the mentally ill while decrying any suggestions for a national database of gun owners is breathtaking.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2012-12-22 • ( 11 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• The solstice swung by again

  By tigtog on 2012-12-22 • ( 4 )

  

  Several hours before the official solstice time of 11:12 amUTC* on December 21st 2012, this was what the sun looked like rising over Stonehenge.

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