My friend A. just pointed this out to me. Original (creative commons) post is at http://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/article/view/10/68Read more... )

I'm having troubles with multiple people in my life and it is dragging me down. I choose to live my life with others in an "outside the nuclear family" way because that isolated way of living just isn't for me. But sometimes, sometimes, I just want to hide from people's egos and wounds and pride and anger because when it comes down to it, I am a ( Read more... )

News sources I peruse (NPR, Daily Beast, NY Times) are bemoaning the fact that the Libyan Rebels are bad soldiers -- they are untrained, don't have officers, are chaotic, etc. I get that this is making things sketchy in Libya, and tricky for U.N. forces, but hello ( Read more... )

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Did people hear that story of the Malawian boy who read some books and made a workable wind mill in his home town? It struck me, when the story came out, that one of the many effects of living in a world where one billion people live in poverty, is how many stone cold geniuses who could transform our world are lost due to lack of access to health ( Read more... )

Woke up at five a.m. today to go stand on the picket line with UC students. The UC system has had a slight decrease in funding -- 4% -- but the regents and administrators think it's a great time to slash all the social sciences and humanities programs as well as raise tuition 32%, since they can, since there's a budget crisis in the state ( Read more... )

No war but the war on Christmas!

(this is my new favorite political slogan.)

From my hero.com ( Read more... )