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More storms today, which is great for the garden, so yay for that! Also, I love sitting on our porch watching it rain. This summer we have a lovely cucumber shade over the entire front porch; Grafton ran twine up to the top of the porch for the cukes to grow up, and it's worked wonderfully (the trellises below are made of random sticks and branches all tied together boy scout style, and I love the very natural look of it all). Also, Grafton and Caleb took out the far end of the porch railing on the back porch and built steps, so now it's accessible from both ends instead of being a cramped dead end (we've got a huge bowler's bench there, so it can seat a lot of people, but heaven forbid anyone need to get out again). Also, it means fewer spots where critters can back other critters into corners, and when managing large numbers of dogs that's a helpful thing to consider. So far, though, none of the dogs will acknowledge the new access at all. Totally doesn't exist in their little peanut-brains. It's rather funny.
I don't know if it's a reaction to Shroom's death, but Ringo (see icon) has been absolutely all over me this past week. I'm certainly not complaining; it's been nice. His best friend in Riley, though, and he never had much to do with Shroom, so I wasn't expecting a strong reaction from him. It might just be that he no longer reads me as marked as "hers". Any which way, it's A Good Thing.
So tired and achy. Blarg. As I was explaining to NL: With the fibro I'm not generally specifically looking for sympathy, just need to be able to state whatever's up with me at the time. It's sort of like a weather report most days. Occasionally I'll have a really bad time and get frustrated and need more emotional support, but that's less common. -- So that's a lot of what's up with the almost daily fibro updates. It's the Daily Sarah-Weather Report, for those who need useful info about my level of functionality.
The war on women has many fronts: one is being fought against doctors who are making a stand for women’s right to choose in the wake of Dr. Tiller's murder.
Medical Marijuana Momentum -- Next Stop: Ohio
Republicans Look To Kill Legal Aid
8 Union Victories Progressives Should Be Watching--And Learning From
It might be too early to call it a resurgence, but organized labor has been marking some big victories lately.
Birth Control Coverage for Everyone? Not So Fast. -- The very important religious exception. It's one of the major reasons I'd never accept a reassignment to the ex-catholic hospital in our network -- their employees, even though technically all CCF now, are locked under the agreement made when Marymount was acquired, and get no reproductive services the Catholic church objects to. Because I'm sure all thousand or so nurses, office staff, doctors, etc, are all conservative by-the-book Catholics. I'm sure we're not actually taking coverage away from people who want and need it with this "compromise" crap. Oh no, that wouldn't happen. /rant
Vincent Gray, mayor of the District of Columbia, has given the go ahead for a ground breaking program specifically aimed at job training and placement for transgender members of the D.C. community. -- Excellent news!
Libyan Rebels Advance Slowly; Tribal Infighting Persists
Three conservation groups filed an appeal on Friday with the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging Congress on their budget bill that stripped more than 1,500 wolves in Idaho and Montana of federal Endangered Species Act protection.
Alaskan Volcano Could Be Gearing Up For Big Explosion -- There's a Cleveland volcano in Alaska? I had no idea.
A team of US scientists led by John A. Rogers, the Lee J. Flory-Founder professor of engineering at the University of Illinois, has developed an “electronic tattoo” that could make a huge difference in monitoring patients’ heart and brain.
Fruit and Vegetable Decomposition, Time-lapse
Rose McGowan On Childhood As Runaway With Drag Queens, Not Being Bisexual
A Big Fish Story We Should Take Seriously (VIDEO)
A “Lynch-Mob Hate” Against Climate Science Teachers -- I think the issue is important, but I'd like to clarify that I'm really uncomfortable with the use of the term "lynch-mob" here.
Depressed Women Have a Higher Risk of Stroke
It's Time for Hardball, Says Progressive Congresswoman Donna Edwards
GOP Prez Debate Evokes Bevy of Far-Right Themes: States' Rights, Rapist Babies, Gold Standard and More
Postal Service Wants To Slash 120,000 Jobs -- I think this is a horrible idea. Postal mail continues to be too important (especially to businesses), and switching to for-profit companies for mail delivery is just stupidly wasteful.
SEC Investigating S&P Over Whether They Leaked News About Downgrade to Investors
All the Anti-Gay Rhetoric From the GOP Presidential Debate -- In Under 2 Minutes
Gloria Steinem vs. Hugh Hefner, Again. On Eve of Historic HBO Documentary, Feminist Leader Urges Boycott of "Playboy Club" Show
Celebrating Tony Bennett's 85th Birthday ... and His Activism
How HIV-Positive Women Drove a Grassroots Campaign for NYC's Sex-Ed Mandate
NYC's Mayor Bloomberg has made sex education mandatory, but we need the same thing for drugs -- let's stop pretending that all teenagers won't take them.
Kentucky Gives Creationist Theme Park 75 Percent Tax Discount For The Next 30 Years
Beginning with a series of articles in the mid-1990s and culminating in Religious Freedom and the Constitution, Christopher Eisgruber and Lawrence Sager have defended an alternative understanding of religion in the law, which they call "Equal Liberty." According to Equal Liberty, "all persons -- whether engaged in religiously-inspired enterprises or not -- enjoy rights of free speech, personal autonomy, associative freedom, and private property that, while neither uniquely relevant to religion nor defined in terms of religion, will allow religious practice to flourish." The religious are free, but not because they enjoy religious freedom. They are free insofar as all are free. In a liberal society, we all inhabit an equal space of personal and associative liberty in which to worship, blaspheme, or just fix our suppers.
Maddening: "Job Creators'" Widespread Refusal to Hire the Unemployed
Inside Angola: Faith-Based Slavery in a Louisiana Prison
The country's largest maximum security prison features a private golf course, an evangelical Christian warden, and has been compared to a slave plantation.
After the Hunger Strike: Criminal Justice Activist Discusses the Potential Impact of Prisoners' Action
Isaac Ontiveros of Critical Resistance offers an inside look at California's anti-prison movement.
DREAMers: How Equal Opportunity For Immigrant Minors Could Actually Help Our Economy
New Poll: Most Americans Consider War on Drugs a Failure and Support Legalization of Marijuana
8 Years In Prison for a Harmless Prank? Handcuffed for Doodling? The Increasing Criminalization of Students
Meet World Protection Group Inc.'s private bodyguards, the latest trend in corporate spending.
UK: Protesting, Rioting and Looting Are Not All Equal
Verizon’s New “Women’s Phone” To Include Charms, Calorie Counter -- Oh, gee, gotta run right out and get that. Ew.
Japanese Tsunami Shattered Antarctica’s Ice Shelf
A Pennsylvania judge, Mark Ciavarella Jr., has been sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for taking a $1 million bribe from the builder of two private juvenile detention facilities. The case became known as “kids for cash” after the revelation of a massive bribery scandal that Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conrahan, devised.
Growing Number of Ethnic Elders in Financial Crisis
AIDS Cases on the Rise in Muslim Countries
Religious Freedom is Declining in Most of the World
MLK on rioting
Leader of Cult-Like Group Charged with Killing Infertile Woman, “Gay” Child
Killer plant 'eats' great tit at Somerset nursery
Have you seen this floating island?
Dems Come Up Just Short in Wisconsin, But There's a Bright Side
The Platypus Faces Extinction As Australia Heats Up
Early Morning Smokers Have Greater Cancer Risk
Malaysian Gay Pastor: Keep Coming Out
U.S. Anti-LGBTQ Violence Sees Significant Rise
Army Will Host Festival for Atheists at Fort Bragg
Cameroon's sole female candidate in the October presidential elections isn't letting kidnapping or water cannons stop her. She says her most solid support comes from young people and she's trying to rouse the women's vote.
Tunisia has led the Middle East on women's rights and toppling autocracy. Now women are in line to run for office in equal numbers as men in the first elections. The threat of rollbacks and reversals also lurks.
California signs on to plan to remake Electoral College
The Anti-Choice Class War Being Waged Against Sex
Manhunt is no way to deal with HIV-positive minor
Pennsylvania To Begin Issuing Birth Certificates for Stillbirths
'Exceptional' Drought Parches United States
Sexuality And Gender Conformity in Women Linked?
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
In a new documentary, filmmakers Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney take the legendary bus trip to the big screen.
Stephen Colbert's Hilarious Takedown of Republican Paranoia on Birth Control (It Involves Dinosaurs and Condoms)
Big Pharma Testing Drugs on India’s Poor
Pharmaceutical companies are exploiting the country’s vast number of illiterate and poor people who are willing to become guinea pigs.
Thanks to advances in medical technology, the story of death and dying is often far different than it was even 20 years ago. But in some cases, are we prolonging suffering? -- Interesting look at how this affects the grieving process.
Should You Ditch Your CFL Lightbulbs for LEDs?
Pseudonymity and flaming
NC Anti-Abortion Measures Will Become Law, Despite Governor's Efforts to Stop Them
New Drugs, Same Mistakes: Congress Chooses Criminalization Over Regulation
Why Marijuana Legalization Isn't a Taboo Idea Anymore
NYT Touts Marijuana for Dealing with Combat Disorders
Orlando: Clinics Remain Open in Face of Anti-Abortion “Siege” (older article, seige is now over for the year)
Fox News Host Advocates Men's "Veto Power" Over Women Seeking Abortions
The Real Numbers on Who's Taking Medical Marijuana
New study reveals the population charicteristics from nine assessment clinics in California.
Medical cannabis users report significantly lower alcohol & cocaine use than the average population, supporting the substitution theory that more cannabis use may lead to less abuse of other drugs. -- I find this interesting in regards to the anecdata from my own life (I basically don't use alcohol except in cooking, and decided years ago never to try coke).
Developing New Birth Control Methods for Men, Will It Change the Debate?
Study Shows Telemedicine Abortion is Safe and Effective; Politics Intervenes Nonetheless
"Medical Field" Defines Pregnancy, Makes Anti-Choicers Angry
Remembering the Bonus Army: Where Are Today's Mass Nonviolent Protests?
On July 28, 1932, World War I veterans marched on Washington to demand their service bonus. Today, in the face of austerity, we see very little protest like that march.
Ignore That Self-Affixed Halo: Anti-Choicers Know Just What They Are Doing to Incite Violence
Marlon Riggs’ 1989 semi-documentary film Tongues Untied seeks, in its author's words to, "...shatter the nation's brutalising silence on matters of sexual and racial difference." The film blends documentary footage with personal account and fiction in an attempt to depict the specificity of black gay identity. The "silence" referred to throughout the film is that of black gay men, who are unable to express themselves because of the prejudices of white and black heterosexual society, as well as the white gay movement. -- This was discussed in Morgan Spurlock's "50 Documentaries to See Before You Die" and particularly caught my attention. Definitely want to see it.
Doctor Pooh
VA Launches 'Mini-Residency' Program for Doctors Unaccustomed To Treating Women
Cenk Uygur Press Conference: I Left MSNBC So I Could Tell the Truth (some of these linketies are older articles I think are still relevant, fyi)
Amusement Park Tells Lesbian To Remove Gay Marriage Shirt
A Little Town In Arkansas Threatens To Ban Free Speech In The Home
Michigan Woman Faces 93 Days in Jail for Planting a Vegetable Garden
A new report reveals that some Americans still think it’s okay for a man to hit his wife, the insane wage gap between women of color and white men, and other disturbing trends.
Why Our Monkey Brains Are Prone to Procrastination (No, It's Not Just Laziness or Lack Of Willpower)
The Daily Show's Lizz Winstead Launches Funny Tour To Seriously Save Planned Parenthood (again, older article)
New Hampshire Legislature Overrides Abortion-Consent Law Veto
2011 Has Already Seen A Record Number of Anti-Abortion Laws--And It's Only Half Over
In just the first half of this year, states have enacted a whopping 162 new laws relating to reproductive health--and nearly half of them restrict abortion access.
5 Protests That Shook the World (With Laughter)
Great moments in "laughtivism" from Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, the guys who duped the BBC, embarrassed Dow Chemical, and mocked Halliburton.
Bolder Anti-Sex Arguments Coming From Religious Right
Religious Right strategies to introduce fundamentalist Christianity into public school science classes have (ironically) evolved over the years.
New Movie Celebrates Killing Doctors-- Because Violence Against Abortion Providers Apparently Sells?
Sex, Love, Revenge ... and Atheism? Finally, a Big New Film That Shows Non-Belief in a Positive Light
"The Ledge" is smart, riveting, complex, emotionally engaging, visually gorgeous... and best of all, almost entirely unpredictable.
Can America's Attitude Towards Sex Get Any Worse? (Or, What Happened When My Son Said 'Breast' in Pre-School)
Opiate-induced hyperalgesia causes excruciating pain caused by the painkillers themselves.
Pro-Life Group Sues To Stop University Hospital From Teaching "Abortion" (Actually, D & C)
9 States Where Awful GOP Policies Will Actually Drive Up the Abortion Rate
4 Hopeful Signs in the Fight Against Disastrous Drug War, Including a New Bill to End Federal Pot Prohibition
Although this new bill is largely symbolic, the fact that it's being introduced, and other small victories of late, bode well for a change in tone on this discussion.
5 Faulty Arguments Religious People Use Against Atheists (Debunked)
Atheism is not just about disproving religious belief; it's also a burgeoning social justice movement intent on tearing down the social structures that perpetuate injustice.
Americans Seem To Love Huge Families, But Only If They're White
An artist has put together a montage of 400 casts of women's personal bits, called The Great Wall of Vagina. It's impressive and rather pretty. (pedant note: that should be Great Wall of Vulva, thank you very much)
The "backfire effect" helps explain how strange, ancient and kooky beliefs resist science, reason and reportage.
When does a legal right become theoretical instead of real? If you want to know the answer, take a look at what’s happening to reproductive rights.
What Can the Labor Movement Do About Workers Who Are Afraid to Join Unions?
Which States Do the Worst (and Best) Job of Educating Kids Regardless of Class? The Results May Surprise You
Economic differences are reflected in the classroom, with students in wealthy schools taking many more advanced courses. But some states have begun to bridge these disparities.
IL Passes Mandated Reporter Law for Abortion Clinics
522 - Calling America: Phone Zones as Alternate States
Stick insects have lived for one million years without sex, genetic research has revealed.
6 Lies About the Human Body You Learned in Kindergarten -- I have issues with elements of the last one, but the rest are reasonably accurate. I'm especially fond of proprioception, thanks to Oliver Sacks.
Scaly foot--a spiral gastropod clad in iron sulfide scales Found only in an extremely limited region of hyrdothermal areas within the Indian Ocean, which is called "Kairei Field". As the name suggests, this creature is covered in rugged scales that protect it from predators. How it actually creates its iron sulfide scales, however, is not yet fully understood.
8 Words You're Confusing With Other Words
8 Racist Words You Use Every Day
8 Everyday Words With X-Rated Origins
6 Everyday Words With Disturbing Alternate Meanings
9 Words That Don't Mean What You Think
7 Terrifying Things They Don't Tell You About Pregnancy
5 Classic Games You Didn't Know Had WTF Backstories
7 Creepy Video Game Easter Eggs You'll Wish Were Never Found
7 Real Insect Superpowers That Put Spidey Sense to Shame
The 16 Most Hilariously Dishonest Old School Advertisements
6 Unbelievable Holidays You'll Wish You Celebrated
9 Types of Job that Will Destroy Your Soul
6 Technologies Conspicuously Absent from Sci-Fi Movies
I don't know if it's a reaction to Shroom's death, but Ringo (see icon) has been absolutely all over me this past week. I'm certainly not complaining; it's been nice. His best friend in Riley, though, and he never had much to do with Shroom, so I wasn't expecting a strong reaction from him. It might just be that he no longer reads me as marked as "hers". Any which way, it's A Good Thing.
So tired and achy. Blarg. As I was explaining to NL: With the fibro I'm not generally specifically looking for sympathy, just need to be able to state whatever's up with me at the time. It's sort of like a weather report most days. Occasionally I'll have a really bad time and get frustrated and need more emotional support, but that's less common. -- So that's a lot of what's up with the almost daily fibro updates. It's the Daily Sarah-Weather Report, for those who need useful info about my level of functionality.
The war on women has many fronts: one is being fought against doctors who are making a stand for women’s right to choose in the wake of Dr. Tiller's murder.
Medical Marijuana Momentum -- Next Stop: Ohio
Republicans Look To Kill Legal Aid
8 Union Victories Progressives Should Be Watching--And Learning From
It might be too early to call it a resurgence, but organized labor has been marking some big victories lately.
Birth Control Coverage for Everyone? Not So Fast. -- The very important religious exception. It's one of the major reasons I'd never accept a reassignment to the ex-catholic hospital in our network -- their employees, even though technically all CCF now, are locked under the agreement made when Marymount was acquired, and get no reproductive services the Catholic church objects to. Because I'm sure all thousand or so nurses, office staff, doctors, etc, are all conservative by-the-book Catholics. I'm sure we're not actually taking coverage away from people who want and need it with this "compromise" crap. Oh no, that wouldn't happen. /rant
Vincent Gray, mayor of the District of Columbia, has given the go ahead for a ground breaking program specifically aimed at job training and placement for transgender members of the D.C. community. -- Excellent news!
Libyan Rebels Advance Slowly; Tribal Infighting Persists
Three conservation groups filed an appeal on Friday with the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging Congress on their budget bill that stripped more than 1,500 wolves in Idaho and Montana of federal Endangered Species Act protection.
Alaskan Volcano Could Be Gearing Up For Big Explosion -- There's a Cleveland volcano in Alaska? I had no idea.
A team of US scientists led by John A. Rogers, the Lee J. Flory-Founder professor of engineering at the University of Illinois, has developed an “electronic tattoo” that could make a huge difference in monitoring patients’ heart and brain.
Fruit and Vegetable Decomposition, Time-lapse
Rose McGowan On Childhood As Runaway With Drag Queens, Not Being Bisexual
A Big Fish Story We Should Take Seriously (VIDEO)
A “Lynch-Mob Hate” Against Climate Science Teachers -- I think the issue is important, but I'd like to clarify that I'm really uncomfortable with the use of the term "lynch-mob" here.
Depressed Women Have a Higher Risk of Stroke
It's Time for Hardball, Says Progressive Congresswoman Donna Edwards
GOP Prez Debate Evokes Bevy of Far-Right Themes: States' Rights, Rapist Babies, Gold Standard and More
Postal Service Wants To Slash 120,000 Jobs -- I think this is a horrible idea. Postal mail continues to be too important (especially to businesses), and switching to for-profit companies for mail delivery is just stupidly wasteful.
SEC Investigating S&P Over Whether They Leaked News About Downgrade to Investors
All the Anti-Gay Rhetoric From the GOP Presidential Debate -- In Under 2 Minutes
Gloria Steinem vs. Hugh Hefner, Again. On Eve of Historic HBO Documentary, Feminist Leader Urges Boycott of "Playboy Club" Show
Celebrating Tony Bennett's 85th Birthday ... and His Activism
How HIV-Positive Women Drove a Grassroots Campaign for NYC's Sex-Ed Mandate
NYC's Mayor Bloomberg has made sex education mandatory, but we need the same thing for drugs -- let's stop pretending that all teenagers won't take them.
Kentucky Gives Creationist Theme Park 75 Percent Tax Discount For The Next 30 Years
Beginning with a series of articles in the mid-1990s and culminating in Religious Freedom and the Constitution, Christopher Eisgruber and Lawrence Sager have defended an alternative understanding of religion in the law, which they call "Equal Liberty." According to Equal Liberty, "all persons -- whether engaged in religiously-inspired enterprises or not -- enjoy rights of free speech, personal autonomy, associative freedom, and private property that, while neither uniquely relevant to religion nor defined in terms of religion, will allow religious practice to flourish." The religious are free, but not because they enjoy religious freedom. They are free insofar as all are free. In a liberal society, we all inhabit an equal space of personal and associative liberty in which to worship, blaspheme, or just fix our suppers.
Maddening: "Job Creators'" Widespread Refusal to Hire the Unemployed
Inside Angola: Faith-Based Slavery in a Louisiana Prison
The country's largest maximum security prison features a private golf course, an evangelical Christian warden, and has been compared to a slave plantation.
After the Hunger Strike: Criminal Justice Activist Discusses the Potential Impact of Prisoners' Action
Isaac Ontiveros of Critical Resistance offers an inside look at California's anti-prison movement.
DREAMers: How Equal Opportunity For Immigrant Minors Could Actually Help Our Economy
New Poll: Most Americans Consider War on Drugs a Failure and Support Legalization of Marijuana
8 Years In Prison for a Harmless Prank? Handcuffed for Doodling? The Increasing Criminalization of Students
Meet World Protection Group Inc.'s private bodyguards, the latest trend in corporate spending.
UK: Protesting, Rioting and Looting Are Not All Equal
Verizon’s New “Women’s Phone” To Include Charms, Calorie Counter -- Oh, gee, gotta run right out and get that. Ew.
Japanese Tsunami Shattered Antarctica’s Ice Shelf
A Pennsylvania judge, Mark Ciavarella Jr., has been sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for taking a $1 million bribe from the builder of two private juvenile detention facilities. The case became known as “kids for cash” after the revelation of a massive bribery scandal that Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conrahan, devised.
Growing Number of Ethnic Elders in Financial Crisis
AIDS Cases on the Rise in Muslim Countries
Religious Freedom is Declining in Most of the World
MLK on rioting
Leader of Cult-Like Group Charged with Killing Infertile Woman, “Gay” Child
Killer plant 'eats' great tit at Somerset nursery
Have you seen this floating island?
Dems Come Up Just Short in Wisconsin, But There's a Bright Side
The Platypus Faces Extinction As Australia Heats Up
Early Morning Smokers Have Greater Cancer Risk
Malaysian Gay Pastor: Keep Coming Out
U.S. Anti-LGBTQ Violence Sees Significant Rise
Army Will Host Festival for Atheists at Fort Bragg
Cameroon's sole female candidate in the October presidential elections isn't letting kidnapping or water cannons stop her. She says her most solid support comes from young people and she's trying to rouse the women's vote.
Tunisia has led the Middle East on women's rights and toppling autocracy. Now women are in line to run for office in equal numbers as men in the first elections. The threat of rollbacks and reversals also lurks.
California signs on to plan to remake Electoral College
The Anti-Choice Class War Being Waged Against Sex
Manhunt is no way to deal with HIV-positive minor
Pennsylvania To Begin Issuing Birth Certificates for Stillbirths
'Exceptional' Drought Parches United States
Sexuality And Gender Conformity in Women Linked?
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
In a new documentary, filmmakers Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney take the legendary bus trip to the big screen.
Stephen Colbert's Hilarious Takedown of Republican Paranoia on Birth Control (It Involves Dinosaurs and Condoms)
Big Pharma Testing Drugs on India’s Poor
Pharmaceutical companies are exploiting the country’s vast number of illiterate and poor people who are willing to become guinea pigs.
Thanks to advances in medical technology, the story of death and dying is often far different than it was even 20 years ago. But in some cases, are we prolonging suffering? -- Interesting look at how this affects the grieving process.
Should You Ditch Your CFL Lightbulbs for LEDs?
Pseudonymity and flaming
NC Anti-Abortion Measures Will Become Law, Despite Governor's Efforts to Stop Them
New Drugs, Same Mistakes: Congress Chooses Criminalization Over Regulation
Why Marijuana Legalization Isn't a Taboo Idea Anymore
NYT Touts Marijuana for Dealing with Combat Disorders
Orlando: Clinics Remain Open in Face of Anti-Abortion “Siege” (older article, seige is now over for the year)
Fox News Host Advocates Men's "Veto Power" Over Women Seeking Abortions
The Real Numbers on Who's Taking Medical Marijuana
New study reveals the population charicteristics from nine assessment clinics in California.
Medical cannabis users report significantly lower alcohol & cocaine use than the average population, supporting the substitution theory that more cannabis use may lead to less abuse of other drugs. -- I find this interesting in regards to the anecdata from my own life (I basically don't use alcohol except in cooking, and decided years ago never to try coke).
Developing New Birth Control Methods for Men, Will It Change the Debate?
Study Shows Telemedicine Abortion is Safe and Effective; Politics Intervenes Nonetheless
"Medical Field" Defines Pregnancy, Makes Anti-Choicers Angry
Remembering the Bonus Army: Where Are Today's Mass Nonviolent Protests?
On July 28, 1932, World War I veterans marched on Washington to demand their service bonus. Today, in the face of austerity, we see very little protest like that march.
Ignore That Self-Affixed Halo: Anti-Choicers Know Just What They Are Doing to Incite Violence
Marlon Riggs’ 1989 semi-documentary film Tongues Untied seeks, in its author's words to, "...shatter the nation's brutalising silence on matters of sexual and racial difference." The film blends documentary footage with personal account and fiction in an attempt to depict the specificity of black gay identity. The "silence" referred to throughout the film is that of black gay men, who are unable to express themselves because of the prejudices of white and black heterosexual society, as well as the white gay movement. -- This was discussed in Morgan Spurlock's "50 Documentaries to See Before You Die" and particularly caught my attention. Definitely want to see it.
Doctor Pooh
VA Launches 'Mini-Residency' Program for Doctors Unaccustomed To Treating Women
Cenk Uygur Press Conference: I Left MSNBC So I Could Tell the Truth (some of these linketies are older articles I think are still relevant, fyi)
Amusement Park Tells Lesbian To Remove Gay Marriage Shirt
A Little Town In Arkansas Threatens To Ban Free Speech In The Home
Michigan Woman Faces 93 Days in Jail for Planting a Vegetable Garden
A new report reveals that some Americans still think it’s okay for a man to hit his wife, the insane wage gap between women of color and white men, and other disturbing trends.
Why Our Monkey Brains Are Prone to Procrastination (No, It's Not Just Laziness or Lack Of Willpower)
The Daily Show's Lizz Winstead Launches Funny Tour To Seriously Save Planned Parenthood (again, older article)
New Hampshire Legislature Overrides Abortion-Consent Law Veto
2011 Has Already Seen A Record Number of Anti-Abortion Laws--And It's Only Half Over
In just the first half of this year, states have enacted a whopping 162 new laws relating to reproductive health--and nearly half of them restrict abortion access.
5 Protests That Shook the World (With Laughter)
Great moments in "laughtivism" from Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, the guys who duped the BBC, embarrassed Dow Chemical, and mocked Halliburton.
Bolder Anti-Sex Arguments Coming From Religious Right
Religious Right strategies to introduce fundamentalist Christianity into public school science classes have (ironically) evolved over the years.
New Movie Celebrates Killing Doctors-- Because Violence Against Abortion Providers Apparently Sells?
Sex, Love, Revenge ... and Atheism? Finally, a Big New Film That Shows Non-Belief in a Positive Light
"The Ledge" is smart, riveting, complex, emotionally engaging, visually gorgeous... and best of all, almost entirely unpredictable.
Can America's Attitude Towards Sex Get Any Worse? (Or, What Happened When My Son Said 'Breast' in Pre-School)
Opiate-induced hyperalgesia causes excruciating pain caused by the painkillers themselves.
Pro-Life Group Sues To Stop University Hospital From Teaching "Abortion" (Actually, D & C)
9 States Where Awful GOP Policies Will Actually Drive Up the Abortion Rate
4 Hopeful Signs in the Fight Against Disastrous Drug War, Including a New Bill to End Federal Pot Prohibition
Although this new bill is largely symbolic, the fact that it's being introduced, and other small victories of late, bode well for a change in tone on this discussion.
5 Faulty Arguments Religious People Use Against Atheists (Debunked)
Atheism is not just about disproving religious belief; it's also a burgeoning social justice movement intent on tearing down the social structures that perpetuate injustice.
Americans Seem To Love Huge Families, But Only If They're White
An artist has put together a montage of 400 casts of women's personal bits, called The Great Wall of Vagina. It's impressive and rather pretty. (pedant note: that should be Great Wall of Vulva, thank you very much)
The "backfire effect" helps explain how strange, ancient and kooky beliefs resist science, reason and reportage.
When does a legal right become theoretical instead of real? If you want to know the answer, take a look at what’s happening to reproductive rights.
What Can the Labor Movement Do About Workers Who Are Afraid to Join Unions?
Which States Do the Worst (and Best) Job of Educating Kids Regardless of Class? The Results May Surprise You
Economic differences are reflected in the classroom, with students in wealthy schools taking many more advanced courses. But some states have begun to bridge these disparities.
IL Passes Mandated Reporter Law for Abortion Clinics
522 - Calling America: Phone Zones as Alternate States
Stick insects have lived for one million years without sex, genetic research has revealed.
6 Lies About the Human Body You Learned in Kindergarten -- I have issues with elements of the last one, but the rest are reasonably accurate. I'm especially fond of proprioception, thanks to Oliver Sacks.
Scaly foot--a spiral gastropod clad in iron sulfide scales Found only in an extremely limited region of hyrdothermal areas within the Indian Ocean, which is called "Kairei Field". As the name suggests, this creature is covered in rugged scales that protect it from predators. How it actually creates its iron sulfide scales, however, is not yet fully understood.
8 Words You're Confusing With Other Words
8 Racist Words You Use Every Day
8 Everyday Words With X-Rated Origins
6 Everyday Words With Disturbing Alternate Meanings
9 Words That Don't Mean What You Think
7 Terrifying Things They Don't Tell You About Pregnancy
5 Classic Games You Didn't Know Had WTF Backstories
7 Creepy Video Game Easter Eggs You'll Wish Were Never Found
7 Real Insect Superpowers That Put Spidey Sense to Shame
The 16 Most Hilariously Dishonest Old School Advertisements
6 Unbelievable Holidays You'll Wish You Celebrated
9 Types of Job that Will Destroy Your Soul
6 Technologies Conspicuously Absent from Sci-Fi Movies
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