The lists are appearing.
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
confected outrage
That attachment parenting TIME cover
Annie Urban looks at how it’s so easy for the MSM to misuse the concepts underpinning attachment parenting to “throw some fuel on the mommy wars”
, and how motherhood is not a competition.
How turning voters off politics helps US pollies get elected – will it work in Australia too?
Intriguing analysis in this post from Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post, although Jay Rosen notes that he doesn’t cover the complementary role played in this game by the news media playing up the confected outrage.
Dear UK, Australia does NOT use expensive voting machines
We don’t use them to cast our votes, and we don’t use them to count our votes either. Anybody telling you otherwise is lying.
Hoyden About Town 