Governor Palin has a Down's syndrome kid.

I know, I know, that doesn't seem like a reason for me to hate her. After all, I grew up with a handicapped sister, taught special ed kids, and am generally highly in favor of rights for disabled people.

But the thing is, Palin doesn't just have a Down's kid. She chose to have one. Early screening meant ( Read more... )

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I signed up to write for International Blog Against Racism Week, so this week, my flist is going to get a fair dose of my opinions and thoughts of racism.

First, a little disclaimer and history.

History: I am ethnically Sri Lankan with two Sri Lankan parents. I was born in LA, California. I grew up mostly in Austria, Europe. I attend university ( Read more... )

Link of the Day:Wall of Protest!

This isn't really a link of the day. This is a link for today, for tomorrow and for yesterday. This is a link that came into being because of the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion last week, and because of North Dakota's new piece of legislation that will make abortion illegal there if Roe vs. Wade is overturned. ( Read more... )

China takes 'Net addiction very seriously.

The part that killed me was:

Addiction to the Internet is blamed for most juvenile crime in China, a number of suicides, and deaths from exhaustion by players unable to tear themselves away from marathon game sessions ( Read more... )

Some days, I really, really hate people.

Elie Wiesel, for those of you who don't know, wrote a very famous book called Night about his experiences of the Nazi death camps. It's an incredibly moving and emotionally honest book. I grew up in Austria, I grew up knowing of the concentration camps and death camps and the atrocities committed, but ( Read more... )

Read them.

Trust me, I couldn't phrase it anywhere near as well as they have.

But just to convince you to click, here are some choice excerpts:

In Scotland, it [rape] can only be committed by males upon females, which appears to mean by persons biologically male at birth upon persons born biologically female.Translation: If you're a guy, tough ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: I've been planning this post out for weeks because the Bad Penny report on CC reminded me of cairnsy and how she'd posted about being bullied online the same week I posted about Christina and RL bullying. Then I ended up having an RL discussion about Kathy and Numa about my inability to move on from it, and how it's going to hurt for the rest ( Read more... )