As Exemptions Grow, Religion Outweighs Regulation
on the growing trend of religious institutions not being required to comply with regulations that analogous non-religious institutions are subject to
October 8, 2006
October 3, 2006
Museum Field Trip Deemed Too Revealing
so now you can be fired after ‘letting’ students see nude art in a museum… like we can really afford to lose teachers who communicate the value of art??
October 2, 2006
Students Killed by Gunman at Amish Schoolhouse
the second time in a few days that a gunman entered a school, released the boys, and lined up and shot the girls - this is fucking terrifying.
September 28, 2006
More Macaca-gate: Allens’ racist “wink”?
george allen finds it necessary to wink at his all-white audience during his apology speech
George Allen, Republicans, and Racism towards Indian-Americans
from the same blog, a great piece on attitudes towards Indian-Americans being verbalized in campaign speeches
Yaknow, I really wasn’t that struck by the whole incident. It was terrible, awful, bad, horrible, all that, but it was life. Any non-White immigrant to America can tell you that they’ve heard it before: in forms obvious and subtle, tokenizing and attacking. But the follow-up is disgusting. Disgusting.
Hostage Horror
gunman takes schoolgirls hostage today, kills one
Male Terrorism, Today’s News: Colorado Gunman Wanted the Girls
a blogger on the ordinariness of this killer:
“The fact is, these are everyday acts of everyday terrorism committed
against women by everyday, ordinary men. And so, as women, we are
made to fear men, serve men, we are kept subservient to them.”
“If I had it in me to kill someone/I would kill you./Instead, I’ll curse you./And my curse will haunt you forever./If you ever return, my curse will savage you to death./If you return,/my hate will destroy you./For the rape of a child.” -Antonia’s Line
(thanks to Woman’s Space/The Margins)
September 21, 2006
When Is Thin Too Thin?
runway models with eating disorders and the industry’s motivations
September 19, 2006
Grisly Find Draws Attention to India Fetus Killings
illegal hospital selectively aborting baby girls in India
