Go read and weep. [cross-posted to PWPL]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
No, please, do NOT undress
Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan apparently offered to strip completely in a film that only required partial nudity, and the producers refused. Yay! [cross-posted to PWPL]
The debate is back… (just not here)
Interesting piece in the Los Angeles Times about the resurgence of abortion as a public debate in Italy and Spain (funny they don’t mention Britain – I guess it didn’t fit in given that it’s not a Roman Catholic country). In Italy and Spain, two of Europe’s most predominantly Roman Catholic countries, opponents of abortion are …
Oh boy, that’s not going to help
If you give me half a chance, I’m liable to talk a great deal about our infrastructure problems and why it’s bad (actually, it’s worse than bad; at this point it borders on the criminally negligent) to keep building new stuff instead of repairing and maintaining what we already have. So you can guess how horrified I …
“I care not for a man’s religion…”
Abraham Lincoln once said: “I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” I wonder what he would have said about religious fundamentalists who are suspected of abusing young girls and marrying them to older relatives. Probably not something nice. [cross-posted to PWPL]
Wouldn’t it be simpler to be more discriminating?
An Australian MP wants women to sign sex contracts, in an effort to “combat false rape allegations”. The MP, Ann Bressington, explained that new proposed laws would “make it an offence to continue a sex act with a person after consent if they changed their mind” and that: … “one-night stands” and casual relationships would …
“It’s not ‘all about abortion’”
A fine piece by Margaret Somerville in this morning’s Ottawa Citizen, debunking arguments against Bill C-484. Worth reading in its entirety, but if you only have time for a couple of paragraphs, it should be these two: One pro-choice activist, Joyce Arthur, wrote recently that “when a pregnant woman is safe, so is her fetus.” …
OK, that’s scary
Call me naive, but I didn’t know about this problem of girls vanishing from their British homes. A new study has found that the practice of forced marriage among immigrants in Britain is much more common than previously assumed. Thousands of young girls — and boys — have gone missing, many of whom might have …
Just discovered this guy…
Forgive me if I’m, like, weeks behind the curve here. I don’t really know who Pat Condell is, and where he comes from. But he sure made me laugh. [h/t LGF]