No, you didn’t need to adjust your set, should you happen to have been watching Sky News on Friday night about 7.30, that was me doing my media stuff – or at least learning how to cut the length of soundbites.
Couple of potentially useful tips: many mobile phones, including T-Mobile, curiously don’t work in the vicinity of the Osterley studios. And you won’t remove the make-up artists’ mascara with anything normally contained in a “green” household – I’m still slightly raccoon-eyed.
Two US judge stories that really make you wonder….
First, the Texas judge who declined to keep her courtroom open for an appeal against the death penalty – so the man was killed by the state – and he almost certainly wouldn’t have been had his lawyer’s computer not failed. That’s what you really call random application of the law.
Second, the judge who concluded that a woman being beaten by her husband – in front of a police officer – might have wanted him to do it.
From the Fawcett Society:
If you do just one thing for Women’s No Pay Day, do this:
Sign our online petition to Gordon Brown demanding stronger action on the pay gap that rips women off. It takes less than a couple of minutes.
Fawcett and UNISON have joined forces to declare October 30th Women’s No Pay Day because the 17% hourly pay gap is equivalent to men getting paid all year but women working for nothing from October 30th until the year-end.
“Akismet has caught 1,008,205 spam for you since you first installed it.”
That’s in slightly under two years. Hope you spammers have all had fun.
… what would happen. This website of the book sets it out – I was taken by the conclusion that in 20 years our common vegetables would have reverted to unpalatable forms, which makes sense when you think about it: there’d be pretty strong selection pressures, and a lot of happy herbivores in the meantime.
Bring out the trumpets, the drumrolls, the lot: the 46th Carnival of Feminists is now up on Cubically Challenged, so, I’m pleased to say, back to the sub-continent for the second time.
There is a rhetorical penis, Zimbabwean politics, the Tamil Punkster, and much, much more fascinating stuff.
It is a great collection, so don’t waste time here – go over there and check it out.
(And if you fancy doing something similar, I’m looking for future hosts: don’t be shy – drop me an email at natalieben AT gmail DOT com. You might be a new hand, or a veteran blogger, you might blog most about politics, or about books, or about ???? – you just have to be a feminist.)
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