Posted in AIDS, HIV, Healthcare, Race, tagged AIDS, DC, Gun Ban, HIV, Second Amendment, Washington on November 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Great! More good news!! As it it’s not bad enough that homicide figures for the year thus far have surpassed the total figure for 2006, now we get this:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington, D.C., has the highest rate of AIDS in the United States, and more babies are born with the AIDS virus in Washington than [...]
Read Full Post »
I don’t know what I’m more excited about, the fact that I’ve yet again been vindicated or the fact that it appears progressives in the US are finally stepping up to the plate. Back in May, I wrote a post entitled “Conservatism has failed wherever it has been tried,” in which I basically called the right wing [...]
Read Full Post »
The Guardian reports that
Ian Smith, the former Rhodesian prime minister who unilaterally declared independence from British rule, has died aged 88.
Smith ruled the country for 15 years from 1964 to 1979, in an ultimately futile effort to prolong white minority rule. During that turbulent time he fought a guerilla war against fighters from the majority [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Bangladesh, Bangladesh, Climate Change, International News, International Relations, Liberal, Politics, Progressive, Sea Level Rise, Sierra Leone, Social & Political Commentary, South Asia, Thoughts, Uncategorized, tagged Bangladesh Floods Flooding Red Crescent Society Donate, Bangladeshi Peacekeepers Sierra Leone, Climate Change, Disaster Relief, Global Warming, Sierra Leone on November 20, 2007 | 7 Comments »
You know, sometimes I wonder if this whole war on ignorance business was such a good idea. I mean, most days, it seems like I’m preaching to the choir, like everyone’s on the same page as me. At such times, I consider just hanging up my warrior hat for good, and blogging only about really [...]
Read Full Post »
Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh on Thursday, generating a six-meter-high tidal wave and causing widespread flooding and massive destruction in coastal communities. The flooding has been declared a national calamity by the government, and relief agencies are reporting that over 3,000 people have lost their lives. Aid workers fear the death toll will continue to rise as [...]
Read Full Post »
The BBC reports that a man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation.
Robert Stewart, 51, admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex.
Sheriff Colin Miller also placed Stewart on the Sex Offenders Register for three years.
Mr Stewart [...]
Read Full Post »
It’s not every day that one of my strongly held beliefs is proven right by science . . . actually, that’s not true. Just yesterday, science explained why curvaceous, voluptuous women are so hot. I never knew why this was but now, science has cleared up that little conundrum for me. Yay science! Now I can move on with my [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Love, Relationships, Romance, Sex, tagged Curvy Women Have More Intelligent Children, Curvy Women Have Smarter Children, Curvy Women More Intelligent, Curvy Women Smarter, Intelligence, Kim Kardashian on November 13, 2007 | 17 Comments »
From the BBC:
Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests. Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests - as did their children.
The bigger the difference between a woman’s waist and hips [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Marriage, Politics, Sex and the law, Social & Political Commentary, tagged Current Events, Domestic Violence, DV, GBV, Gender-Based Violence, Marital Rape, Oprah Winfrey, Spousal Rape, Violence Against Women, Wife Beating, Wife Rape on November 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »
From a recent episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show:
It’s the ultimate betrayal…a crime so disturbing, many victims never tell a soul. According to reports, about 1.5 million women are raped or physically assaulted by their partners every year.
Although spousal rape is punishable by law in all 50 states, many offenses go unreported. Two women who [...]
Read Full Post »
Is this guy for real? Isn’t it bad enough for everyone that his own son caught him on tape using the word “nigger” like it was going out of stlye? I mean, you should have heard Dog in that conversation, dropping the n-bomb like his life depended on it. The way Dog was saying “nigger,” you’d [...]
Read Full Post »
