Weekend Reading — The Man Edition
These posts are by and/or about men. All but one deal with specific gender issues. Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Aborton, Public Opinion, and Selling Out Bark/Bite: Men, Divorce, and Beer Pandagon: Doofus men and their saintly, ever-responsible but never fun wives The Carpetbagger Report: Rove, Plame, and the scandal we won’t let go away And [...]
...read more747? Missle? What?
More than enough to give one pause. I heart Chuck for pointing out this one.
...read moreNew Emperors, Old Clothes
Vandana Shiva, if you don’t already know of her, and you should, is a scientist, prominent eco-feminist, and social commentator best known for her works covering South Asia and the intersection of business practices and poverty. Her most recent essay, printed by The Ecologist, is a must read. In part, From Bob Geldof to Gordon [...]
...read moreComment and Trackback Moderation
As of today, all comments and pingbacks will be closed after eight days. If a conversation is active enough that it merits staying open, I will reopen comments for the duration of interest. If you think a comment section merits being reopened and I have not noticed it, please drop me a line and I [...]
...read moreFriday Random Ten And Wet Kitties
I was so busy with the garden that I forgot about the FRT and Friday Cat Blogging! Bad Lauren! Pablo got a bath this morning. Doug looks on afterward either feeling sympathetic for Pablo or mocking him. I vote for the latter. Pablo always seems to feel better after his baths. The initial distress causes [...]
...read moreThe Garden
I still have no tomatoes though two of the (twenty, no kidding) plants stand over six feet tall. I have a feeling that all of them will come in at once and I will be forced to learn how to can sauces and stews. I cut down all of the beautiful broccoli, and blanched and [...]
...read moreAs war continues, maternal mortality rises
Not surprising. After the 2003 war that toppled Saddam Hussein, the number of women who gave birth at home shot up to about two-thirds. Of those, 80 percent had nobody with any formal training present at the birth. Far from lifesaving emergency care, many mothers died from preventable complications. Today, nobody knows exactly how many [...]
...read moreThe Next Anti-Choice Frontier: IVF
IVF treatments have helped millions of women conceive; and now the “pro-life” movement is taking a stand against them. An Illinois judge declares that an early embryo is a human being, allowing a couple to sue a clinic for destroying a fertilized egg. A U.S. senator suggests that couples seeking fertility treatment should not be [...]
...read moreHow to fight terrorism
I just wrote a huge, long post about this, and the internet in this cafe stopped working and the whole thing got erased. So, you will all get the condensed version. First, check out the New York Times op/ed section for a variety of ideas. The Washington Post offers up some decent op/eds too, but [...]
...read moreWordPress Question
Anyone know of a plugin that turns off old trackbacks? I use Auto-Close Comments for the usual comments but we’re getting hit with 70+ trackback spams every twelve hours.
...read moreLondon on Flickr
Wider shot Originally uploaded by Nicholas Shanks. Pictures from common people who witnessed the London bombings are being posted under several tags at Flickr. I don’t have much to say about the incident because I don’t have television news and am getting mixed reports from blogs and online news orgs. For me there is, as [...]
...read moreMixmania Summer Edition
One of the strangest things about blogs is that it is not uncommon to see very serious posts about war and death juxtaposed with posts about cats and music. Excuse this regrettable oddness while I post my Mixmania CD playlist as I have been urged to (finally) do.
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