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Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by The 25 Most Awkward Cat Sleeping Positions. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing!
Pinkwashing cancer – Pink Ribbons, Inc. looks at capitalising on hope
Doco examines how devastating disease became shiny pink marketing dream diverting donations away from organisations doing most of the work towards organisations with better PR. Is this the best use of donors’ money? And what about all the non-pinkified cancers?
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Epic Rap Battles of History #12 – Dr Seuss VS Shakespeare. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: Cui bono? What’s really going on?
I won’t add my condemn to your condemn LIII
It’s the last week of the month, so it’s time to condemn yet again! Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and other phenomena need condemnation? (Or loud denunciation?)
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: blowing one’s own horn, burying one’s errors, resurrecting the shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines, and ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing!
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a harsh, gritty look at the world of Mario Kart in real life. Red shells mean business. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: blowing one’s own horn, burying one’s errors, resurrecting the shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines, and ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing!
I suppose we really ought to have a US primaries thread
Most of what we’re seeing in the MSM is just presidential horse-race reporting, of course. Why don’t we see if we can do better?
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by the #codeyear project. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
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