Her name was Lucy: Press coverage of a teacher’s death
From Gay Star News UK: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/her-name-was-lucy-press-coverage-teacher%E2%80%99s-death220313 The death of transgender teacher Lucy Meadows, who had her story revealed by...
View ArticleThe Myth of Christian Persecution
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/candida-moss/the-myth-of-christian-persecution_b_2901880.html Candida Moss 03/20/2013 Christians of all denominations maintain that the Early Church...
View ArticleSelling the Store: Why Democrats Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare...
From Robert Reich: http://robertreich.org/post/45896187525 Robert Reich Thursday, March 21, 2013 Prominent Democrats — including the President and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — are openly...
View ArticleThe US on suicide watch: Death by ‘moderation’
From Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/2013320184843513125.html How rational problem-solving has ceased to be “serious” among US elites. Paul Rosenberg 22 Mar 2013 The...
View ArticleNY Times Ignores Banks’ Latest Role In Distorting The Housing Market
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/ny-times-ignores-banks-latest-role-distorting-housing-market The newspaper reports a shortage of houses for sale, not surplus of underwater loans. By Steven...
View ArticleSick: Teachers and Students Called 16-Year-Old Girl “Freak,” “Alien,” and...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/gender/sick-teachers-and-students-called-16-year-old-girl-freak-alien-and-he-she She claims that when she went to the principal to complain about the harassment,...
View ArticleTrans teacher believed to have killed herself ‘had told of press harassment’
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/22/lucy-meadows-press-harassment Campaigners plan vigil outside Daily Mail over death of primary school teacher Lucy Meadows Helen...
View ArticlePress regulation, freedom of speech and the death of Lucy Meadows
From New Statesman UK: http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/03/press-regulation-freedom-speech-and-death-lucy-meadows In a week where supposed threats to the freedom of the press have been at the top of...
View Article$50,000 raised for trans activist Kate Bornstein’s cancer treatment in two days
From Gay Star News: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/50000-raised-trans-activist-kate-bornsteins-cancer-treatment-two-days220313 Half of target raised in two days, but crowd-funding project seeks...
View ArticleKate Bornstein, Transgender Activist And Theorist, Receives Support For...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/kate-bornstein-cancer-fundraiser_n_2926015.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices Glennisha Morgan 03/22/2013 Kate Bornstein has lent her voice and...
View ArticleBye, Bye American Dream! U.S. Economic Inequality Is Permanent, Study Finds
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/economy/bye-bye-american-dream-us-economic-inequality-permanent-study-finds Analysis of two decades of income tax trends also find the rich consume more. By...
View ArticleMaryland Senate Passes Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/maryland-decriminalize-marijuana_n_2909541.html By Will Wrigley 03/19/2013 Marylanders caught with marijuana may soon face a small fine...
View ArticleThe U.N.‘s Hypocritical War on Pot
From In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/article/14729/the_united_nations_needs_to_sober_up/ The organization’s double standards stand in the way of commonsense drug policy. BY David Sirota March...
View ArticleHow Noam Chomsky is discussed
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/23/noam-chomsky-guardian-personality The more one dissents from political orthodoxies, the more the attacks focus on personality,...
View ArticleThe Rather Effete Right Winger, Gary Bauer Gushes: ‘Polls are skewed’ if they...
Why do all these right wing assholes look and sound like negative gay stereotypes. Gary Bauer looks, acts and sound like he just stepped out of a summer stock cast of Boys in the Band, a late 1960s...
View ArticleShuffleboard? Oh, Maybe Let’s Get High Instead
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/fashion/more-older-americans-use-marijuana.html By ALYSON KRUEGER Published: March 22, 2013 For Cher Neufer, a 65-year-old retired teacher,...
View ArticleWelfare’s War on Drugs
From In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/article/14761/welfares_war_on_drugs/ Why laws mandating drug tests for welfare recipients are doomed to fail. BY Camille Beredjick March 20, 2013 The...
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