Israel: Jewish sex segregation campaign turns violent
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/26/jewish-gender-segregation-campaign-turns-violent/ By Agence France-Presse Monday, December 26, 2011 Extra Israeli police patrolled the streets of...
View ArticleWe’ve Lost Nearly All of Our Wild Foods — What Happened? And What Are We...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/food/153568/we%27ve_lost_nearly_all_of_our_wild_foods_–_what_happened_and_what_are_we_missing Fish are the last wild food that most of us will eat. By Jill...
View ArticleWhy Don’t Libertarians Care About Ron Paul’s Bigoted Newsletters?
From The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/98811/ron-paul-libertarian-bigotry James Kirchick December 22, 2011 Nearly four years ago, on the eve of the New Hampshire Republican...
View ArticleTweeting the word ‘drill’ could mean your Twitter account is read by U.S....
From The Daily Mail UK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2079283/Tweeting-word-drill-mean-Twitter-account-read-government-spies.html Fake profiles used by Department of Homeland...
View Article#Liberate LEGO!
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lyn-mikel-brown/legos-for-girls_b_1172876.html?ref=tw Lyn Mikel Brown Posted: 12/28/11 When LEGO announced that after four years of marketing...
View ArticleToday’s GOP makes Mississippi look liberal
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2011/12/29/todays_gop_females_have_more_rights_before_theyre_born/ Most 2012 contenders back a personhood amendment too extreme for a red, red state, while Rick Perry...
View ArticleKeeping Students From the Polls
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/opinion/keeping-college-students-from-the-polls.html Editorial Published: December 26, 2011 Next fall, thousands of students on college...
View ArticleUtah Doctors Join “Occupy” Movement
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/27-3 by Brian Moench Published on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 by CommonDreams.org Taking inspiration from the Occupy Movement, last week a...
View ArticleNorman Lear on fighting the good fight
From The Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lear-occupy-the-new-year-20111230,0,4956520.story The Occupy Wall Street movement has unleashed patriotic outrage. If...
View ArticleShould the World of Toys Be Gender-Free?
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/opinion/does-stripping-gender-from-toys-really-make-sense.html?_r=1 By PEGGY ORENSTEIN Published: December 29, 2011 Berkeley, Calif. NOW that...
View ArticleFrench breast implant firm link to second company
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/30/french-breast-implant-second-company Jean-Claude Mas, head of firm at centre of implant scandal, was employed by a new prosthetics...
View ArticleHappy New Year
Yesterday Tina and I took a day off from posting. We went to the Amon Carter and saw shows by Will Barnet and John Martin. We ate ate Fred’s, arguably the best dive burger and fry joint in the the...
View ArticleLet Your Life Be a Counter-Friction to Stop the Machine
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/30-3 by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez Published on Friday, December 30, 2011 by CommonDreams.org I believe that we are coming to a...
View ArticleChomsky to Occupy: move to the next stage
From The Portland Phoenix: http://portland.thephoenix.com/news/131298-chomsky-to-occupy-move-to-the-next-stage/ Words from the guru By LANCE TAPLEY December 23, 2011 Noam Chomsky has advice for the...
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