Posted in Africa, Opinion, Reproductive Patterns, Sex, Uncategorized, tagged Thoughts, Current Events, Hadza, Anthropology, Birth Control on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
The results of a new study have shown that men with deep voice produce more offspring than men with high-pitched voices.
The study was carried out among the Hadza, a group of hunter-gathers in Tanzania, who do not use birth control. Researchers used voice recordings collected from 49 men and 52 women between the ages of 18 and [...]
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Posted in International News, Military, Monks, Myanmar, News, Opinion, Police Brutality, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized, tagged Burma, Burma Demonstrations, Burma Monks, Civil Disobedience, Conservative, Current Events, Thoughts on September 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Burmese government made good on it’s threats to “take action” against the Buddhist monks leading peaceful protests throughout the country. The monks are protesting the government’s refusal ”to apologise for its actions during an earlier rally in the city of Pakokku, when soldiers and state-backed militia reportedly beat up several monks.” That demonstration was held to [...]
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Just kidding!!!
I thought my days of blogging about Paris Hilton were behind. I guess not. I just couldn’t resist weighing in on the latest news from this Hollywood denizen.
Parish Hilton, hieress and tabloid starlet—not to mention onetime internet pornstar—has announced her intention to travel to Rwanda on a humanitarian mission. I guess Paris figures she’ll get [...]
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Posted in Africa, African Music, Hip-Hop, Krio, Media, Middle East, Music, North African Music, Online Radio, Politics, Radio, Rai Music, Rap, Reggae, Roma Music, tagged Sierra Leone, Creole, Calypso, Garage, Diaspora, Spanish Reggae, Freetown, Caribbean, Videos, Gypsy Music, Balkan Music, Goran Bregovic, French Hip-Hop on September 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Got a brand new show for y’all’s listening pleasure.
The first segment features some Roma (Gypsy), French, and Arabic tracks. Then we move on to Disco, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: one track by Sierra Leonean rapper Problem M (rapping in Krio, a Sierra Leonean dialect) and the other by NY/DC poet/rapper/all-around-entertainer KOMplex, Mr. Keep On Moving. I met him a [...]
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Posted in Education, Louisiana, Noose, Nooses, Opinion, Politics, Prison, Progressive, Race, Race Relations, Racial Slur, Racism, Segregation, Uncategorized, tagged Civil Liberties, Civil Liberty, Conservative, Corrections, Current Events, Democracy Now, Hate Crimes, Hate Speech, Integration, Jena, Jena 6, Jena Louisiana, Terror, Terrorism, Terrorist, Thoughts on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
A comment from a reader prompted me to write the response below, which I then decided to reproduce as a blog post:
. . . [P]erhaps I am guilty of skimming over the details of the beating Justin Barker received at the hands of Mychal Bell and his friends. I’ll repeat again that I think the [...]
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Thanks to the miracle of modern technology, my blog now features videos. Check ‘em out!!!
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Posted in Education, International News, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Louisiana, Media, Noose, Nooses, Opinion, Politics, Prison, Progressive, Race, Race Relations, Racial Slur, Racism, Uncategorized, tagged Conservative, Corrections, Current Events, Desegregation, Hate Crimes, Hate Speech, Human Rights, Jena, Jena Louisiana on September 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
A Louisiana appeals court has vacated the second conviction that sent Mychal Bell, one of the Jena 6, to jail. Earlier this month, a district judge threw out Bell’s conviction for conspiracy to commit second-degree battery, agreeing with Bell’s supporters that the case should have been heard in juvenile court. On Friday, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
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Posted in Education, Incarceration, International News, Media, Opinion, Police, Police Brutality, Police Misconduct, Politics, Prison, Progressive, tagged Civil Liberties, Civil Liberty, Conservative, Corrections, Current Events, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, John Kerry, Taser, UF Security Taser, UF Taser, UF Taser Student on September 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Now that everyone and their mother has seen how free speech is “protected” on college campuses, the mainstream media is lining up to mitigate, apologize, and justify.
Anyone watching ABC 7 (the local Washington, DC affiliate) this morning would have thought the anchors were commenting on a comedy sketch and not a video depicting a student’s free-speech and [...]
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Posted in Gender Issues, Incarceration, KKK, Kidnap, Ku Klux Klan, Male, Masochism, Men vs. Women, Opinion, Politics, Progressive, Race, Race Relations, Racial Slur, Racism, Rape, Sadism, Sex and the law, Torture, Women, tagged Thoughts, Hate Crimes, Current Events, Conservative, Terrorism, Terrorist, Terror, Sexual Assault, Corrections, Hate Speech, Sexual Violence, West Virginia on September 19, 2007 | 8 Comments »
ABC has reported that new details have emerged in the case of Megan Williams, who was kidnapped and subjected to various acts of torture, sexual abuse, and humiliation by Karen Burton (top center) and fellow defendants.
According to statements read out during the defendants’ preliminary court hearings, the victim told police she had had hot wax and hot [...]
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Have you ever been to an emergency preparedness fair? No? Me neither. In fact, before last Wednesday, I had never even heard of such a thing. But on that day, someone handed me a yellow and black postcard, just like this one.
I had been living under the misperception that fairs were fun events with ferris wheels [...]
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