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2010-08-07
Thinking of an old friend today. Hope all is well in your world :-) A huge sheet of ice (100 sq miles) has broken off a glacier in Greenland. Fidel Castro addresses Cuba's National Assembly for the first time in four years to warn of a coming US war on Iran and North Korea. Sally Kohn: "Perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage, but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships." 2010-08-01 It bothers me that many girls and women these days seem to think 'feminist' is a bad word, so this post makes me happy. If you're a female and you enjoy voting, being able to work for your own money, owning property, or attending school, 'feminist' is a label you should be proud of. 2010-07-29 Greta Christina: 5 stupid, unfair and sexist things expect of men. Poor school performance and bad health in children linked to tv viewing as toddlers. Top secrets of effective liars. Hanna Rosin: Did Christianity Cause the Crash? More mothers cheat the day after Mother's Day. 2010-05-02 Vanity sizing: Retailers make clothes larger to make customers feel better about themselves. Being single can cost you money. Clever women drink more: 'Women who went to university consume more alcohol than their less-highly-educated counterparts, a major study has found.' Is it possible to disappear in the age of surveillance? Obesity causing trouble for the US military. 2010-04-01 Roger Ebert: 'Many of us may naively believe that textbooks are written by teachers and authors with a sound knowledge of their fields, and vetted by conscientious publishers. That's not necessarily true.' Oil giant Koch industries helps to fund climate change denial. Real life mean girls bully a fellow student until she takes her own life. Lovelock: it's too late to save the planet. 2010-03-27 Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach makes an ass of himself - again. One year later, this Happy Meal has not decomposed. Professors at the University of Regina object to scholarships for the children of soldiers killed in action. As long suspected, the presence of attractive women really does make men act stupid. 2010-03-20 Texas changes its school curriculum, eliminating lessons about Thomas Jefferson, the separation of church and state, Hispanic contributions to American history, religious freedom and democracy. On the seventh anniversary of the war in Iraq, the mission is still not accomplished. Make sure to contribute to Yéle Haiti - so Wyclef can get laid. 2010-03-12 Popular home-schooling textbooks warn students that 'a "Christian worldview... is the only correct view of reality; anyone who rejects it will not only fail to reach heaven but also fail to see the world as it truly is."' Gary Hart: 'If we restore the true meaning of important words like liberal, perhaps at least a few politicians will not be afraid to use them.' Rahim Jaffer sentence disgusts Canadians. 2010-02-27 Intelligent people have 'unnatural' preferences and values (such as liberalism and atheism) that are novel in human evolution. Can hand sanitizers really prevent the spread of respiratory infections like the flu? This lingerie model may be the leader of one of the world's largest drug-smuggling gangs. 2010-02-19 Matt Taibi: From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again School uses webcams to spy on students in their own homes. 2010-02-08 6 Shockingly Evil Things Babies Are Capable Of How genes for homosexuality could be naturally selected.
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