January 2010
47 posts
CROSS-DRESSING is on the rise among young Qataris. →
A debate about fashion in Qatar
Cross about cross-dressing
Is it a wicked Western habit that should be stopped?
Jan 28th 2010 | DOHA | From The Economist print edition
Illustration by Claudio Munoz
CROSS-DRESSING is on the rise among young Qataris. The local press says that more tradition-minded locals are upset by the growing number of young women affecting a masculine style of dress, baggy...
Study: Monogamy Not Key for Many Gays | News |... →
According to The New York Times, the Gay Couples Study from San Francisco State University followed 556 male couples in the Bay Area for three years, and found that 50% of them had sex outside the relationship with the approval of their partner. The implications for the relationships often were healthy.
“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole...”
– Ray Bradbury (via booklover)
“The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye: the more light you shine on...”
– Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935)
THE RIGHT TO FAMILY: A Courage Campaign Photo... →
fuckyeahlgbt:
SEND US A PHOTO OF YOUR FAMILY. On January 12, 2010, members of the Courage Campaign community started the “THE RIGHT TO FAMILY” project on Facebook to support the many diverse American families throughout this great country. Our goal: 100,000 members who post their photo on this page and who support all families, gay, straight, single, step, or otherwise. We support families made...
'How We Decide' And The Paralysis Of Analysis →
aka THE STORY OF MY LIFE:
Terry Gross interviews Jonah Lehrer on his book ‘How We Decide’ now out in paperback. Prior book by Lehrer: ‘Proust was a Neuroscientist’ later named one of the 25 best non-fiction books of the year by the LA Times. Lehrer’s blog The Frontal Cortex develops his concept of a fourth culture: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/.
<3 <3 <3 ...
“listen up dingbats:
under Obama, where its legal, you get to carry guns at...”
– Posted by: johnthetreehugger
Comment: losing freedom eh?
Jan 18, 2010 7:51 AM
http://www.alternet.org/story/145145/when_you_throw_a_tea_party_and_no_one_comes:_why_it’s_hard_to_be_a_right-wing_activist?comments=layout#comments
Whew! *wipes brow* Good job!
“I think it is essential to say loudly and proudly that commitment is a core...”
– David Cameron, leader of the opposition Conservatives [UK], who has pledged to give tax breaks to civil partners if his party wins the general election due by June.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a9lMI8IHlMLw
“commitment is a core value of a responsible...
Orthodox Judaism finally begins to face gay... →
Do Black Hats Come in Pink?
By Steven I. Weiss
Posted Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, at 9:58 AM ET
Countless modern quandaries—from scientific inquiry to women’s rights—have failed to rock the Orthodox Jewish boat. But younger Orthodox Jews are pushing gay inclusion to the fore, and for the first time, the sect doesn’t have any reasonable answers for its internal liberal critics. If this...
Senegal offers land to Haitians that want to come →
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press Writer Rukmini Callimachi, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jan 16, 5:52 pm ET
DAKAR, Senegal – Senegal is offering free land to Haitians wishing to “return to their origins” following this week’s devastating earthquake, which has destroyed the capital and buried thousands of people beneath rubble.
“Dear Pat Robertson,
I know that you know that all press is good press, so I...”
– The letter was written by Lily Coyle of Minneapolis and appeared in the Star Tribune.
Video Exposes Antigay Western Theocratic Effort... →
[E]xposes the immense political influence in Uganda of the International Transformation Network … a little-known but global evangelical effort, which claims gays are possessed by demons and that faith healing can cure HIV and AIDS, is working to “transform” the nation of Uganda along theocratic lines. Individuals in that effort, shown in the video, are directly tied to...
“Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.”
– Jacques Delille, French poet (1738-1813)
“Knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5.”
– Google CEO Eric Schmidt
The Observer - Responsibility for offensive comic →
Wow. A REAL apology, phrased with a generous/ungrudging spirit. It’s a good sign!
ProtectMarriage.com issues Cease and Desist for... →
January 15, 2010
By Julia Rosen
Earlier this week we received a Cease and Desist letter from ProtectMarriage.com, demanding that we immediately take down the logo for this site. (Well actually, they demanded we take it down from the Courage Campaign site, but it was clear that they were ticked off about the Trial Tracker logo.)
Hee. The opposition is clearly clueless. Given a day to respond,...
Whose Marriage Is It? →
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Video/cartoon by Mark Fiore, SFGate
<3 this!
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be...”
– Albert Einstein
Speech by Jimmy Carter to the Parliament of the... →
The truth is that male religious leaders have had – and still have – an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.
Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for much of the pervasive persecution and abuse of women throughout the world. This is in clear violation not just of...
"Teens and Social Media" - Girls Rule →
The Dalai Lama, a Feminist →
“I call myself a feminist,” said the Dalai Lama. “Isn’t that what you call someone who fights for women’s rights?”
Ted Olson: 'Why I Took This Case' →
My answer … rests on a lifetime of exposure to persons of different backgrounds, histories, viewpoints, and intrinsic characteristics, and on my rejection of what I see as superficially appealing but ultimately false perceptions about our Constitution and its protection of equality and fundamental rights.
17% of women struggle with porn addiction. Only...
giftedboi:
ohyeahfacts:
(source)
Huh.
Clarification: 17% of the women who visited adult sites self-identified as struggling with porn addiction, whereas only 10% of the men who visited adult sites self-identified as struggling with porn addiction. The population being discussed is Visitors to Adult sites, not ALL men and ALL women.
Lesbian lawmaker in Utah carries baby for gay men →
By The Associated Press 01.11.2010 9:00am EST
(Salt Lake City) Rep. Christine Johnson will serve an additional role when the Utah Legislature convenes this month. The lesbian lawmaker announced she’s a surrogate mother, carrying a baby for two gay men.
hee. Priceless! Thank you, Christine Johnson.
Justice and happiness not at odds in the home,... →
Married couples who share home responsibilities and share breadwinning responsibilities are happier, Canadian researchers found. Researchers at the University of Western Ontario said couples who “share roles,” where each partner’s unpaid work is within 40 percent to 60 percent of the total unpaid work, report higher average measures of happiness and life satisfaction than those in other family...
“There were plenty of messes. And, like the clean-up crew after a wild, drunken...”
– “The Uh-Ohs”: A Decade of Conservative Failure
Friday 08 January 2010
by: Terrance Heath, The Campaign for America’s Future
http://www.truthout.org/article/the-uh-ohs-a-decade-conservative-failure-terrance-heaths
Why Genes Aren't Destiny →
By John Cloud, Time Magazine
Wednesday, Jan. 06, 2010
…the potential is staggering. For decades, we have stumbled around massive Darwinian roadblocks. DNA, we thought, was an ironclad code that we and our children and their children had to live by. Now we can imagine a world in which we can tinker with DNA, bend it to our will. It will take geneticists and ethicists many years to work out...
France mulls 'psychological violence' ban →
David Chazan, BBC News, Paris, 05 Jan 2010
If you insult your wife or husband repeatedly, you could soon find yourself in court if you live in France.
The charge? Psychological violence.
That’s what the new offence will be called if a bill backed by the government is passed by parliament.
The Decade’s Top Ten Quotations →
Some of them are darkly funny, some of them are gut-wrenchingly sad—but all of them are warnings.
Answering Helen Thomas →
Answering Helen Thomas on Why They Want to Harm Us
by: Ray McGovern, truthout Op-Ed
Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence screw-up that almost downed an airliner on Christmas Day.
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about...”
– Socrates
Hobbes, how I love you! →
This is sooo Neko! WILL. NOT. MOVE. No matter what. (Of course, she’s just as likely to skip the friendly wave/warning and go directly to claws and/or teeth. *sigh*)
Co-Working Offers Community To Solo Workers →
“The same way that [during] the last century work shifted from blue collar to white collar,” Bacigalupo says, “I think we’ll be seeing in this century, we’re going to be moving away from the idea of a centralized Monday-to-Friday, 9-to-5 workplace, and we’ll be moving much more in this direction. People will work when they want where they want.”
“Nonetheless, he knew that the tale he had to tell could not be one of a final...”
– Albert Camus