Archive for the 'In the News' Category
I take back everything bad I have ever said about American television news.
Brilliant.
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Tags: Bears, Cleveland, Heh, News
Giving hate the finger
I haven’t posted yet about Proposition 8 being upheld. It took me some time to get my head around my reaction to it. I’m not a US citizen nor an expert on constitutional law. So when smarter people than I tell me that there were some good reasons behind the proposition being upheld, I know [...]
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Tags: a blog, Alas, California, Homophobia, LBGTQ, Lily Allen, Proposition 8
Nick Griffin’s England
It turns out the BNP has a manual – a book of Hate for Dummies, if you will. And someone leaked it to the BBC.
BNP activists and writers should never refer to ‘black Britons’ or ‘Asian Britons’ etc, for the simple reason that such persons do not exist”.
Now defining British nationality is tricky, but it [...]
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Tags: BNP, Britain, Nick Griffin, Racism, UK Politics
The incredible shrinking tax
The Guardian has put together some word clouds for the Budget speeches for the years 1998-2009 (i.e. the speeches given by Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling as Chancellors). The more frequently a word is used in the speech, the bigger it appears in the cloud.
It makes for interesting glancing for those of us who haven’t [...]
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Tags: Alistair Darling, Budget, Budget 2009, Budget Speech, Darling, Economy, Speeches as Graphics, The Guardian, Word Clouds
“That’s how I was raised”
So apparently there’s a Miss USA beauty pageant. I hadn’t been following it, for any one of a million reasons, but then Renee at Womanist Musings drew my attention to one of the contestants, Miss California, and her views on gay marriage.
Filed under: In the News, LBGT, Media, World | 3 Comments
Tags: Anecdotes, Gay Marriage, Gay rights, LBGTQ, Marriage, Miss California, Miss USA
Dear Amazon
I am writing to express my displeasure that your website has dropped a large number of books related to LBGT issues from your sales rankings. I understand that this is purportedly to remove “adult” content from easy view. However, I find it profoundly disturbing that Amazon feels that books like “Daddy’s Roommate” by Michael Willhaite [...]
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Tags: Amazon, amazonfail, Angry Letters, Bigotry, Bisexual, Censorship, Gay, Homophobia, Internet shopping, LBGTQ, Lesbian, Transsexual
Sarah Haskins’ spin on 2008
I really have to stop watching Target Women in the office. Even though I’m tucked away in the corner and no-one really cares what I get up to, I still feel bad when the whole office can hear my snorts of laughter.
(Linked because apparently I can’t embed videos in WordPress. Hmm.)
via The F-Word
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Tags: 2008, In the News, Sarah Haskins, Target Women, Women
It’s those noisy high heels
I’m supposed to be lesson planning, but this article caught my eye.
Women in a northern Malaysian city ruled by conservative Islamists are being urged to forsake bright lipstick and noisy high heels in an effort to preserve their dignity and avoid rape.
Kota Baru, the city in question, is part of Kelantan, a state that has [...]
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Tags: Malaysia, Misogyny, Rape, Women
Gordon Brown would have welcomed headlines pointing out that yesterday’s results were a victory for the Labour government. David Cameron would have liked them to emphasise that the vote was won by pressure, promises and concessions on other issues to anyone who wanted them. I don’t think either of them wanted this.
David Davis’s resignation has [...]
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Tags: 42 Days, Civil Liberties, David Cameron, David Davis, Politics, The Sun, UK, UK Politics
That’s it, I’m leaving the UK
Except I can’t, because I already did. And I don’t believe the best way to solve problems is to abandon them, anyway. But there are days when I really, truly, wonder what the country is going to look like when I go back in a year or two.
The bill to increase pre-charge detention limits to [...]
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Tags: 42 Days, Brown, Cameron, Civil Liberties, Diane Abbott, In the News, Jacqui Smith, Politics, UK Politics
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