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As promised, I’m ready to give you the low-down on yesterday’s glamorous gala opening of the ECHO PARK TIME TRAVEL MART.
Stefan G. Bucher’s DAILY MONSTER: INTRODUCING THE ECHO PARK TIME TRAVEL MART
McCullum says he was denied sufficient food while staying with a family of Coptic Christians, who fast for more than 200 days a year, a regimen unmatched by other Christians.
Maine teen says he starved during stay with host family in Egypt – The Boston Globe
Zipcar spokeswoman Kristina Kennedy, whom I spoke to for my story this week, took issue with some of the statements I made in my piece
Zipcar Responds | Slog | The Stranger | Seattle’s Only Newspaper
the price of land was significantly less important to Westward Expansion than population growth and technological innovation leading to a decrease in transportation costs.
A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has discovered a gene that is able to block HIV, and in turn prevent the onset of AIDS.
most reported cases of measles were associated with outbreaks in travelling and religious communities where vaccine uptake has been historically low. [God loves encephalitis and dead babies]
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year [2003] by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
A Berlin gallery has temporarily closed an exhibition by a group of Danish artists after six Muslim youths threatened violence unless one of the posters depicting the Kaaba shrine in Mecca was removed
For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report. Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local jails. The number of American adults is about 230 million, meaning that one in every 99.1 adults is behind bars. Incarceration rates are even higher for some groups. One in 36 Hispanic adults is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006. One in 15 black adults is, too, as is one in nine black men between the ages of 20 and 34. The report, from the Pew Center on the States, also found that only one in 355 white women between the ages of 35 and 39 are behind bars but that one in 100 black women are.
[Article continues at link. One quick way to reduce this horrible statistic by a quarter would be to end prohibition. And while we're at it, we could decriminalize the other victimless crimes. - Trevor Blake]
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climb regular stairs up and down.
Every single homeless person in the city will be given a life-long phone number and voicemail, should they choose to accept it
Google Gives All SF Homeless Free Voicemail – KNTV-TV- msnbc.com
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There was more than the obvious reason to feel blue for people offered in human sacrifice rituals by the ancient Maya to their rain god — they were painted blue before being heaved into a watery sinkhole.
Feeling blue? Not like a Maya sacrificial victim – Yahoo! News
The film has been condemned in advance, sight unseen. Just for a moment of clarity, think back to the riots that greeted the work of the nineteenth-century European Biblical higher critics, or the Jesus Seminar, or the many skeptical/critical examinations of the Bible. What riots? Exactly.
And ask yourself: if someone reacts to something I say by going mad, breaking things, and targeting innocent people, is that my responsibility or his? When you are insulted, do you consider it a license to destroy things and hurt people, or do you consider it incumbent upon yourself to exercise some self-control?
[Jihad Watch is an excellent resource. - Trevor Blake]
Wired Magazine reports: “As an expert witness in the defense of an Abu Ghraib guard who was court-martialed, psychologist Philip Zimbardo had access to many of the images of abuse that were taken by the guards themselves. For a presentation at the TED conference in Monterey, California, Zimbardo assembled some of these pictures into a short video. Wired.com obtained the video from Zimbardo’s talk, and is publishing some of the stills from that video here. Many of the images are explicit and gruesome, depicting nudity, degradation, simulated sex acts and guards posing with decaying corpses. Viewer discretion is advised.”
Recently I paid my taxes. This is part of what I got in exchange, I guess.
Access to information does not, in itself, change things. The truth is not un-ignorable. The Bible has been full of contradictions and absurdities for thousands of years, easily seen by anyone who looks, but Christianity lingers on. The bald fact that the Bush administration is tyrannical, illegal and fascist is easily seen by anyone who looks. But it lingers on. What might change things?
Many of the images are explicit and gruesome, depicting nudity, degradation, simulated sex acts and guards posing with decaying corpses.
