Philippe Bourgois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio:

"The vigor of the crack-cocaine economy during the late 1980s and early 1990s was largely the result of an aggressive federal drug policy prioritizing the criminal repression of smuggling. Sometime in the early to mid-1980s, marijuana importers working the Latin American supply ( Read more... )

Debunking the vaccine-autism link:

"In the Journal of Medical Virology May March 2006 there was a paper by Afzal et al, looking for measles RNA in children with regressive autism after MMR vaccination, using tools so powerful they could detect measles RNA down to single-figure copy numbers. It found no evidence of the vaccine-strain measles RNA to ( Read more... )

oh, hey, SCA people, miss the dark ages?
move to Baghdad"If we give the money to the widows, they will spend it unwisely because they are uneducated and they don’t know about budgeting. But if we find her a husband, there will be a person in charge of her and her children for the rest of their lives ( Read more... )

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in Oregon, the deadline to register is October 13th.

oh, did someone mention racial tension?

for those concerned about america's indian policy (oh hai, we're still here), it may interest you to hear Jim Gray, Chief of the Osage Nation, has been heartily singing the praises of Barack Obama.

from First Americans for Obama:

"We've got to make sure we are not just having a BIA that is dealing with the ( Read more... )

1. if you truly want to boycott oil companies, stop buying petroleum-based products. period ( Read more... )

the ira laying down arms?
apocalypse must be near...

have you heard about the Downing Street Memo yet? it is possible that there is proof of the US president misleading the government and the public about his reasons for invading Iraq. this means it is possible that there are legal grounds for impeaching the president ( Read more... )

started reading Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch for the second time. i was distracted when i read it last year, so it's hitting me more this time.
excerpts from the Introduction:

Perhaps women have never really believed the accounts of themselves which they were forced to acept from psychologists, religious leaders, women's magazines and men ( Read more... )