“MindWar”: The Bush Propaganda Machina
Though not surprising, this is incredibly disturbing — and indicative of yet another failure of a lazy corporate media and a twisted, absolutist government that seems to be taking its cues from fascist regimes: In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had [...]
...read moreIllinois Court Rules Against Forced-Sterilization of Disabled Woman
Good news: Disability rights advocates and medical ethicists praised a precedent-setting ruling Friday by the Illinois Appellate Court denying a bid to sterilize a mentally disabled woman against her will. The woman, identified only as K.E.J. in court records, isn’t capable of raising a child on her own, but her guardian failed to prove that [...]
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The Presidential Wife Bake-Off
Personally, I’d like to hear the Presidential candidates discuss how best to prepare and eat this.* There are a lot of things I hate about election season, but the competition of which potential First Lady has the best recipes is perhaps my least favorite. So I’m actually kind of glad that “Farfalle-gate” has broken, and [...]
...read moreThe Bush administration: So “pro-life,” they’ll violate federal law to deny health care to children
Don’t you just love how much “pro-lifers” care about babies once they’re born? The Bush administration violated federal law last year when it restricted states’ ability to provide health insurance to children of middle-income families, and its new policy is therefore unenforceable, lawyers from the Government Accountability Office said Friday. Anti-choice Republicans were concerned that [...]
...read moreHaving “The Answers”
This essay feels very familiar. You should read it all — but this section in particular struck me: It’s hard to write “I don’t know.” I just read an interview with Spike Lee in this week’s New York Magazine that was sort of a retrospective of “Do The Right Thing.” His comment about critics who [...]
...read moreReclaim the Oil
A friend of mine sends on the following message: Apologies for the short notice but we just found out that ExxonMobil is sponsoring tomorrow’s Go Green Earth Day Festival in McCarren Park. ExxonMobil is also responsible for the largest oil spill in America’s history, larger than the Exxon Valdez, just meters away from where the [...]
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