* "Focus on the Family's Singapore sex-ed class promotes rape, bigotry:" http://boingboing.net/2014/12/08/focus-on-the-familys-singapo.htmlRead more... )

* "Inspiring Photos Capture Hong Kong Protesters' Perfect Parting Shot at the Government:" http://mic.com/articles/106268/inspiring-photos-capture ( Read more... )

* "Israelis who dressed up as Ku Klux Klan members on Purim make waves on Facebook:" http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Israelis-who-dressed-up-as-Ku-Klux-Klan-members-on-Purim-make-waves-on-Facebook- ( Read more... )

* I haven’t written about the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, mostly because nearly everything I’ve seen in the press is speculative. It seems cruel to me to speculate in a way that verges on disaster porn in a situation like this when so many people are waiting to hear what happened to people they care deeply about. I’m mostly writing now ( Read more... )

* Winter has set in and 1 million Syrian Refugees and approximately 3.4 million people inside Syria are in desperate need of food. The UN has put out a call for people to help. https://give.wfp.org/en/629/? ( Read more... )