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Is It Torture Now? ISIS Apparently A Fan Of CIA's Waterboarding Techniques

Women Listening To Men In Western Art History

Dignified Debate: The United Kingdom shows the rest of the world how to have a wise, honest, eloquent discussion about assisted suicide.

Indefensible: Why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyer is leaving the defense team—and the Army.

Labor Intensive: In Defense of Sex Work
Sex work is not a liability. It is a form of labor and art; its participants don't deserve violence or stigma.

What Wellesley learned when it stopped giving out so many A's

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I think about racism alot because it happens alot.

Preview: No Selves to Defend – Marissa Alexander & A Legacy of Criminalizing Women of Color for Self-Defense

The Science of Your Racist Brain: Neuroscientist David Amodio on subconscious racial prejudice and why we're still responsible for our actions.

How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act: Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.

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Did Scientists Just Solve the Bee Collapse Mystery?

After 85 Years, First Gremlin Found Alive

The Supreme Court’s city council prayer decision

18 Empowering Illustrations to Remind Everyone Who's Really in Charge of Women's Bodies

Adding Monsters to Thrift Store Paintings

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5 Steps to Separate Science from Hype, No PhD Required.

Revisiting Milgram's obedience experiment: what did he actually prove?

Drugs: Without the Hot Air, now in the USA!

A Tongue In Cheek Review of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition

The Case Against Brain Scans As Evidence In Court

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News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier

Psychedelic Portuguese Man-of-War Photos Prove God Is a Stoner.
(They prove no such thing, but the images are gorgeous.)

The Saudi Marathon Man

Black Gold: Thar’s Oil In Them Thar Walls (On the Discovery of a Hidden Mural)

States Can Legalize Marijuana (Though Federal Laws Stand), Says Congressional Research Service

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This week, I'm thinking about abortion. If you only read one of these, read the first one.

The Last Abortion Doctor

My Abortion: One in three women has an abortion by the age of 45. How many ever talk about it? New laws, old stigmas. 26 stories.

The Violinist: A Thought Experiment

My miscarriage, my abortion.

I wish my mother had aborted me: This is no 'I wish I'd never been born' howl of angst. I love my mother, and having an abortion would have given her a better life.

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If you are a man, and you love any woman in the world - your mother, sister, daughter, wife, movie star; I don't give a fuck - read these articles. The first one if no other.


Rape Culture 101: On What It's Like To Be A Woman

To all those men who don’t think that rape jokes are a problem.

A woman walks into a rape, uh, bar: A post about rape jokes.

Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced.

Meet the Predators: Or, How To Almost Spot the Rapists at a Party (Also known as, who the f is doing all of this raping?)

Why I Didn't Report My Rape

Prison Rape and the Government

On Abortion

So here's the deal. Thousands of children die each year because they can't find organ donors. You can donate lobes of your liver with almost no problems. Kidneys are a little more problematic, but neither even comes close to having a child, much less raising one. So, if you haven't signed up to donate one, the other or both, then you have no business voting for a law that would force someone else to donate their organs to a child without consent. This seems like simple logic to me. Again, to recap:

If you think that unborn children have a right to my organs, then actual, live children surely have a right to your organs. So put up or shut up.

About the Pledge of Allegience

I originally wrote this on Friday, October 15, 2010.  I am posting it here with minor edits, mainly for grammar.

Kevin is publicly shamed for his refusal to take an oath.

Yeah, that cartoon is cute. It shows someone who simply doesn't care in contrast to someone who cares so much that they gave their health, and was willing to give their life. It makes a point, and makes us feel good about being better than the lazy guy. It makes us feel proud of our veterans. (Although that pride doesn't seem to extend to caring for them, but that's a an entirely different post...) and it makes us feel patriotic. Yay!