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HIV Loneliness in Skid Row, written 6 days ago, There is a phrase in the salutation before every class of the martial art Pentjak Silat , “Let my eyes see what they do not see.” I have many times asked that very same thing. I know there are things that I do not know about Skid Row. There are...

Medical tourism and global health inequality, written 1 week ago, By many accounts, the numbers of patients from industrialized countries seeking medical treatment in countries like India, Thailand or Cuba are increasing rapidly. Last year, the New York Times issued a piece whose basic theme was tha...

Bush as Anathema, written 2 days ago, Think Progress had this vid up: This is so sad, I don't know if I can even muster any schadenfreude. But it does show one thing: either every world leader is a douchebag who doesn't understand us or this lame duck POTUS has damaged the way the world looks at...

Journalism by Press Release, written 4 days ago, With thousands of journalists losing their jobs, how are the media filling all those column inches? Press releases. As media companies buy up more media outlets and slash newsroom budgets and staff, reporters have less time to do their jobs, often res...

Sikh man barred from wearing turban in court, written 1 week ago, A San Joaquin County Superior Court judge says a Sikh man facing trial over the murder of his daughter's former boyfriend will have to appear before jurors without his turban. Judge Charlotte Orcutt says that the long fabric pious me...

Paul Squires on identity and entangled topics.

House Negro? It's On Like Hot Buttered Popcorn, written 3 days ago, Wassup, Y'all! Man - today's the beginning of the end of Al Qaeda now that AQ #2, Ayman al-Zawahri found it necessary to go all pre-reconstruction on President-Elect Smooth by dippin' into the Dixie dictionary and pullin' out 'Hous...

Video of the Week -- My New Haircut, written 3 days ago, Most of you may have seen this already, but up until earlier this year, I hadn't. Dialogue Not Safe For Work!

For those who need convincing, written 3 days ago, Opponents of same-sex marriage insist (see comments) that the pro-SSM side is all protests and cries of bigotry, but no substance. For many anti-SSMers, they feel they've provided well-constructed arguments about what marriage is and why, and what d...

The Obama Inauguration is Getting Crazy!, written 5 days ago, Apparently, all hotel 50 miles from Washington, D.C. are completely booked for the week of the inauguration. Which is making people very imaginative and crafty (and desperate). Here's what I found on Craigslist: Apartment to Swap for I...

Yeah, erm, Right. Quebec Embraces Liberalism, written 3 days ago,

How Badly has Bush Damaged America?, written 2 days ago, There's no question that George w. Bush has crippled America's standing in the world. Bush never understood the narrow limits of American power or the degree of Washington's interdependence on America's allies. He failed to grasp his country's...

BLOGOSPHERE VERSUS MSM, written 1 day ago, What is your take on the article, Oh, grow up, in The Economist? The author states the following: "Blogging is no longer what it was, because it has entered the mainstream." The rest of the world may well have missed the unfolding of his tragedy....

Memoirs 9: Time to go again (1967), written 4 days ago, (for practical purposes, this installment is a few days early). I ended my last chapter by saying that, just before leaving Belgium, a dramatic change of life happened. Peter and I were supposed to leave on a monday (I remember very well). And...

WOZA wins Amnesty International Human Rights Award, written 1 week ago, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) has been awarded the 5th Human Rights Award by Amnesty International German Section. The award was presented at an award ceremony at the ‘Berliner Ensemble’, a well-known theatre in the centre ...

Aurora Borealis, written 1 week ago, .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Emergency Shelter, originally uploaded by orvaratli. Nature is amazing.. But this...I h...

Does reading the news ever make you feel like your head will explode from the stupidity of it all? whether stupidity of reporting or stupidity of action and content? (or both...) Then come! get angry WITH me. No holds barred balls-to-the wall social

Books on motherhood for book groups and consciousness raising from mothers.