- Affirmative Consent As Legal Standard? « Yes Means Yes
- Affirmative consent isn’t even a radical idea. Outlawing sex and making the initiator a criminal in all events is a radical idea. [by Twisty Faster?] …people would still have sex, but would only initiate with people they trusted not to turn them in.
[Crunchy post about how the feminist/ethical standpoint could be translated into law. -L]
- 4.651 Art Since 1940 | MIT OpenCourseWare: New Courses • by Jones, Caroline
- This subject focuses on the objects, history, context, and critical discussion surrounding art since World War II.
- Nobody will be surprised by this | Pharyngula
- Father Riccardo Seppia is a priest under one of the advisors Pope Ratzi appointed to oversee church reforms in the wake of the pedophilia scandals.
You know exactly where this is going, don't you?
- Giant Deep-Sea Detector Hunts for Elusive Particles and Glowing Bacteria
- The world's largest underwater neutrino telescope is starting to get results, as well as some bonus seismic and biological data.
- Political Animal – When a party declares intellectual bankruptcy
- This blog post that you’re reading now, for example, put together over the course of about 15 minutes, is about 550 words. The House Republican leadership put together a…document ostensibly explaining how the GOP intends to address the unemployment crisis, and they could barely put together 2,000 words.
And why is that? Because the Republican Party is intellectually bankrupt. It has no new ideas, no constructive solutions, no creativity, no depth of thought, no recollection…
- Lech Walesa snubs Obama, fellow Nobel winner | AlterNet
- Lech Walesa, Poland's Solidarity-era legend, ex-president and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner said Friday he would not accept an invitation to meet…
- Abandon the knife – People
- In the Pokot community in Kenya young girls are starting to fight against the brutal rite of female circumcision.
- Netanyahu’s speech to Congress shows America will buy anything – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
- The man who explicitly said he would do his level best to destroy the Oslo Accords suddenly says he's in favor of peace with the Palestinians.
- ‘This is real democracy’ | Al Jazeera Blogs
- Out of curiosity I thought I would try to find out what happened to [the woman who heckled Netanyahu while he addressed the US Congress]. Not many in the mainstream media bothered to pursue the issue, but it turned out that her name is Rae Abileah, she is a Jewish Israeli activist, and she ended up in hospital and under arrest.
I wonder if this is what Netanyahu meant when he was waxing lyrical about freedom.
- Interactive: Deadly 2011 US tornado season – Interactive – Al Jazeera English
- View map of tornadoes that have ripped through Alabama, Missouri and other states, causing 500 deaths.
- US ‘should stay’ in Afghanistan past 2014 – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
- A leading think-tank with ties to the Obama Administration says more than 25,000 troops should remain past 2014.
- Did US dump toxin in S Korea? – Asia-pacific – Al Jazeera English
- The US has agreed to carry out a joint investigation over whether it buried toxic chemicals, like Agent Orange, containing the highly toxic dioxin compound, in South Korea.
It is believed that the chemicals were illegally buried at an American army base in the 1970s.
- G8 commits $20 billion to ‘Arab Spring’ – Europe – Al Jazeera English
- Western economies to mobilise "substantial bilateral support", both economic and political, for post-autocratic nations.
- Russia agrees to mediate Gaddafi exit | AJE
- Moscow changes tack at the G8 meeting in France, saying Gaddafi has 'forfeited legitimacy' to rule Libya.
[But will Gaddafi agree to mediate Gaddafi exit? -L]
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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