Gary Sauer-Thompson at Public Opinion has skewered David Burchell’s latest op/ed, which includes a typification of two different types of voters:
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Federal election 2010: The ghost of culture wars past
Tagged with: ALP, climate change, culture wars, david burchell, Federal Election 2010, globalisation, Labor, neoliberalism, sociology, sustainability
Posted in elections, environment, Howardia, immigration, sociology
Posted in elections, environment, Howardia, immigration, sociology
Holidays and unfinished blog business!
I’m going to be away from Brissie for about a week – visiting a friend who lives outside Toowoomba (and expecting to freeze!) – so won’t be around the intertubes though I’ll be scheduling the Saturday Salon post before I…
Tagged with: blogosphere, Culture, gender & equality, sociology, Writings
Posted in culture, Developing world, feminism, life, Notices, Women
Posted in culture, Developing world, feminism, life, Notices, Women
Disabled in a disaster? Just wait until we've helped all the real people, all right?
Lauredhel had a post a few days ago noting the plight of a quadriplegic man abandoned while the ablebodied passengers were evacuated during the train breakdown on the Sydney Harbour Bridge recently and told he would be evacuated “in two…
Labor premiers do the differentiation? And other reflections on Mohamed Haneef
There were some suggestions on the thread about Mohamed Haneef that the Labor response to wedges is for Rudd or a shadow minister to agree with the government, only to have Premiers and other state Labor figures cast doubts as…
Tagged with: authoritarian, intolerance, Labor, politics&govt, sociology, war & conflict
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Developing world, elections, Howardia, immigration, Law, politics, Terrorism
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Developing world, elections, Howardia, immigration, Law, politics, Terrorism
So, is it OK?
crossposted at Hoyden About Town and at Feministe Feminist bloggers Jessica, Amanda, Twisty and Violet Socks (and Melissa too!) have all written about this article: Is it OK to Demand An*l S*x? (asterisks for the benefit of corporate filters). The…
Whom, exactly, is Joe de Bruyn representing?
Possibly because it can’t be spun as a story about TEH EVIL UNION BOSSES or something (or at least not the right kind of story, but more of that later), there’s not much debate around the traps on the ALP…
Tagged with: same-sex attraction, sociology
Posted in Lesbian and Gay, media, politics, Relationships, religion
Posted in Lesbian and Gay, media, politics, Relationships, religion
Reprise: What's it like to have one leg?
I don’t blog on disability issues very much, but I noticed at tigtog’s place a link to a blog that’s new to me – The Gimp Parade, and also via that link, I became aware of one of the very…
Tagged with: blogosphere, Culture, Disability, disadvantage, sociology, Writings
Posted in culture, Disability, life, Philosophy, Technology
Posted in culture, Disability, life, Philosophy, Technology
Truthiness
A new study, whose findings were released today, provides further evidence to suggest that there is no link between induced abortion and breast cancer. A 2003 international expert panel convened by the National Cancer Institute reviewed and assessed research regarding…
Tagged with: culture wars, gender & equality, politics&govt, sociology
Posted in feminism, health, Medicine, politics, science
Posted in feminism, health, Medicine, politics, science
I'm a dedicated black one piece fan
…But that’s my business really. Women are either hussies or oppressed. Either way, we’re objects for a lot of folks. Go read all about the incredible tale of a Muslim woman who was reduced to a symbol of teh Islamic…
Cyber choice activism for Australian-Americans
Yes, we do exist! Tigtog wrote last week about the reactionary Supreme Court decision in Gonzales v. Carhart. If you’re an American citizen, and are concerned, you should urge your Senator and Congressperson to co-sponsor and support Barbara Boxer and…
QUT farewells the "old" humanities?
I’ve always been perplexed, and annoyed, by the tone of much of the conservative criticism of university education in the humanities and social sciences (I deliberately omit the words “logic” and “argument”). Either pundits, pollies and culture warriors extrapolate from…
Tagged with: culture wars, Julie Bishop, politics&govt, sociology
Posted in education, Markets, politics
Posted in education, Markets, politics
Sour Cherries from the Orchard of M Arouet
While simply following the historical wire of the small Jewish nation, one sees that it could not have another end. It is even praised it to have left Egypt like a horde of robbers, carrying all that it had borrowed…
Tagged with: culture wars, History, politics&govt, sociology
Posted in history, Philosophy, politics
Posted in history, Philosophy, politics
Cyberbullies again
DeviousDiva, a pseudonymous British expat living and blogging in Greece, has been harassed by Greek nationalist bloggers, threatening to out her, for writing a series on the maltreatment of the Roma in Athens. Thankfully the major culprit blog has now…
