I just witnessed something I deem very ugly, on a social network ( Read more... )

Italian stylists Dolce & Gabbana (who are also a well known gay couple) in an interview voice their support to the concept of 'natural family' (meaning a man, a woman and child(ren) ) and their disagreement with practices like surrogate maternity (which, by the way, is illegal in Italy) in a very sedate, reasoned way, with no hint of condemnation, ( Read more... )

I just saw this and I have to share.
Been there,done that, not with Alzheimer but I'm familiar with the disorientation, hallucinations, confusion, mixed-up sleep patterns. It took a lot out of us and there were 3 healthy people in the family, thinking of caring for an Alzheimer patient alone is stuff for nightmares.

Originally posted by davesmusictank at ( Read more... )

In Europe, if you request the status of refugee, you cannot move to another country in the EU, not even if you have relatives or friends willing to take you in and sponsor you. You have to stay in the country where you place your request ( Read more... )

...At least in France.

At the beginning of this month the French Parliament has approved a law that will strike out the word race from all legislative texts.

It is well known, in science, that human races do not exist, we are all members of the same species that has a broad variability spectrum. Biology tells us that it isn't possible to separate ( Read more... )

 Netizens residing in the People's Republic of China cannot write the date or mention  the numbers 64 (which can, given the Chinese way of expressing time, be constructed as June 4th ) or 35 (since people started writing about May 35th to go around the ban) or 24
(the years since the Tiananmen repression) but even expressions like that year and ( Read more... )

Usually, it being Monday, today would be 'serial day'.

It is far from a normal Monday, though, and going on like nothing happened feels, if not wrong, definitely out of place.
I feel bewildered, stunned into silence, and I believe it is time for silence, meditation and prayer.

I'll be back before or on next Monday.

As of yesterday Pe'Sla went back to its rightful caretakers.

Rapresentatives of The Great Sioux Nation and the Reynolds family signed the contract, the deal is done, Pe'Sla is safe.http://

It has, in many ways, but no matter what some Western businnessmen may think (I've read people complaining in earnest about 'Those troublemaking NGOs from Hong Kong badmouthing the PRC'), the one thing that hasn't changed is the absolute supremacy of the party.

And so, Monsignor Thaddeus Ma Daqing, the 44-year old auxiliary bishop of Shanghai has ( Read more... )

A Chinese cartoonist's opinion on the ongoing anti-Japanese demonstrations in China .

For obvious reasons the author of Hexie Farm is known only through his (her?) alias 'Crazy Crab'.

Patriotic turtles