Lights on how the Christian community accepts rapists and vilifies their victims.
Green spaces make you healthier. I wonder if houseplants help.
Banning abortion doesn’t make it rarer, but it does make it more dangerous: unsafe abortions kill 70,000 women a year. A lack of access to contraceptives leads to 60 million unintended pregnancies a year and increases abortion rates, often in unsafe conditions. If Christians really wanted to save lives, they’d be mailing condoms instead of gospel tracts.
Homeless people deserve better. I hope that so many people losing their homes will lead to improved services for the homeless.
Proposed budget cuts in AZ target the poor and include wonderfully ironic cuts like “eliminating state supervision of loan originators, mortgage brokers and money transmitters.” Hawaii is dramatically shortening the school year because of budget cuts.
US drug policy blocks successful treatments for cluster headaches.
The difference between fields with lots of women and fields with few is other women.
Interpol hooked up with UN Peacekeeping.
Churches in Nigeria are torturing and killing children. Isn’t God great?
So many of the same people who think blowing up all the Muslims is a great idea are also strongly anti-immigrant. I guess they don’t realize how many immigrants are dying for their beliefs. Or they’re just racist.
The worst companies in the world. Just in case you thought corporations were generally looking out for your best interests.
WWJD?
One week without health insurance was enough for this family to be denied real coverage for their daughter.
Wearing a bra is an evil deception deserving extreme punishment.
Garlic might actually help prevent colds, but the AIDS vaccine probably didn’t really work.
Companies with more women are better companies.
Thomas Hillier - The Emperor's Castle
The Pansy Project: “Artist Paul Harfleet revisits city streets planting pansies at the site of homophobic abuse. Each location is photographed and named after the abuse received.”
If I go nuts, this is why.
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