Just to get rid of open FF tabs again...

• Sexism at Newsweek: in 1970 and now; also a comment piece over at Racialicious drawing attention to the very-white-focussed nature of the Newsweek article.
• The Economist on the demise of cap-and-trade in the US. Unfortunately this appears to be largely down to public denial in the face of climate change, ( Read more... )

I read 'Waiting to Exhale' by Terry Macmillan last week (picked up at the hostel in Brisbane). And noticed this review, from the Literary Review, in the front ( Read more... )

It occurred to me after ConFest last weekend that I didn't see anywhere (on the tickets, on the programme thingy, anywhere else) any acknowledgement to the traditional owners of the land. This struck me (although I confess to not noticing it at the time), because that acknowledgement is something I have seen at most official/governmental ( Read more... )