This is the way the world ends: Once-in-a-millennium drought a wakeup call...
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/30/californiapocalypse_once_in_a_millennium_drought_a_wakeup_call_for_america/ California is buckling under the strain of an environmental catastrophe — and...
View ArticleLogo, RuPaul’s Drag Race Respond to Antitrans Slurs
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/03/29/logo-rupauls-drag-race-respond-antitrans-slurs The network and producers behind RuPaul’s Drag Race have issued statements...
View ArticleAtheists Classified As Terrorists Under New Saudi Arabian Laws
Perhaps we need a movement to Boycott, Divest and Sanction Muslim Nations that fail to recognize basic human rights including the rights of women, LGBT people and non-believers. From Huffington Post:...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: Tax the rich to thwart American aristocracy!
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/28/paul_krugman_tax_the_rich_to_thwart_american_aristocracy/ The New York Times columnist slams those who say raising taxes on the wealthy is un-American Elias...
View ArticleToday I Divested Myself of a Facebook “Friend”
This afternoon I unfriended a person, who posted a link to a Gendertrender post that attacked parents of transkids, who supported their cildren transitioning while very young. I consider the people of...
View Article“What’s Between Your Legs?” Is the New “So What Do You Do in Bed?”
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cathy-renna/whats-between-your-legs-i_b_5031634.html?utm_hp_ref=tw Cathy Renna 03/25/2014 Possibly inspired by Laverne Cox and Orange is the New...
View ArticleCreationists endure rough few weeks: Why the flat-earth crowd is in trouble
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/04/03/creationists_endure_rough_few_weeks_why_the_flat_earth_crowd_is_in_trouble/ From “Cosmos” to evidence of Big Bang, it’s been a tricky time for biblical...
View ArticleEnough With the Bathrooms: Stigma, Stereotypes and Barriers to Trans Equality
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-mollmann/enough-with-the-bathrooms_b_5043042.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices Marianne Mollmann 03/28/2014 Recently, attempts to effectively...
View ArticleOutsourcing and Privatization are Killing America
`From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/economy/outsourcing-and-privatization-are-killing-america Austerity and privatization harm, not help, people. By The Thom Hartmann Show March 27, 2014 With...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Under Attack from Christians Who Want More Biblical...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/belief/neil-degrasse-tyson-under-attack-christians-who-want-more-biblical-creationism-his-show Why not other creationism stories, like the Norse or Egyptian...
View ArticleCall climate change what it is: violence
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/climate-change-violence-occupy-earth Social unrest and famine, superstorms and droughts. Places, species and human beings –...
View ArticleI hate my job, I hate my job, I hate my job – what many think but won’t tell...
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/04/i-hate-my-job-court-typist A Manhattan court typist’s antics may have jeopardised many criminal convictions, but I can’t help...
View ArticleWhy do we work so hard? Cadillac and Ford have very different answers
The Cadillac Suit is a total dick.
View ArticleMelissa Gira Grant: ‘I got into sex work to afford to be a writer’
Sex work is real work. Most people in the anti-Trafficking Movement do a great deal of harm to those employed in the sex industry and virtually nothing that benefits sex workers. Every thing they do...
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