December 2011
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Call For Zine Submissions…. →
Milwaukee LGBT Community Center
December 2011 Center Connects
Volume 2, Issue 21
Call For Zine Submissions….
Trans/Genderqueer adolescence stories.
Topic:Essays, anecdotes, comix, poetry from Trans and Genderqueer folks telling stories of going through puberty and adolescence. Take that as broadly or specifically as you’d like; literally how your body was changing and how your brain was...
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To Build Community, an Economy of Gifts →
In former times, people depended for all of life’s necessities and pleasures on people they knew personally. … Community was not an add-on to life, it was a way of life. Today, with only slight exaggeration, we could say we don’t need anyone. … I don’t need any of the people who produced any of the things I use. I need someone to do their jobs, but not the unique...
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HIDDEN BENEFICIARIES OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS →
This links to a table that shows what percent of people said they had participated in or used 19 federal programs who earlier in the surveys said they had never used any social program. Uh huh.
Mettler argues that recipients are less likely to recognize themselves as benefiting from programs that are part of what she calls the “submerged state” — programs and policies that provide incentives...
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Report: Rich-poor gap growing →
The gap between the United States’ rich and poor continued to grow last year, according to new government wage data. …
The [Social Security Administration] said 50 percent of workers made less than $26,364 last year — and most Americans have fewer job opportunities available to them. But the wealthiest Americans are relatively unscathed, with those earning $1 million or more jumping 18...
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Nixon's Darkest Secrets →
A new biography by Don Fulsom, a veteran Washington reporter who covered the Nixon years, suggests the 37th U.S. President had a serious drink problem, beat his wife and — by the time he was inaugurated in 1969 — had links going back two decades to the Mafia, including with New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello, then America’s most powerful mobster.
Yet the most extraordinary claim is that...
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Eli Pariser on "The Filter Bubble: What the... →
From Democracy Now!:
The internet is increasingly becoming an echo chamber in which websites tailor information according to the preferences they detect in each viewer. When some users search the word “Egypt,” they may get the latest news about the revolution, others might only see search results about Egyptian vacations. The top 50 websites collect an average of 64 bits of personal information...
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Marriage equality has health benefits for gay men:... →
Same sex marriage legalization reduces doctor visits and health care costs for gay men, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health. …
The study surveyed 1,211 patients from a large, community-based health clinic in Massachusetts that focuses on serving sexual minorities.
In the 12 months following the 2003 legalization of same sex marriage in...
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WHAT MAKES A BODY OBSCENE? →
The model is a man named Andrej Pejic, with hair and make-up usually seen only on women, sliding his shirt off his back. …
Both Barnes & Noble and Borders “bagged” the magazine, like they do pornographic ones, such that one can see the title of the magazine but the rest of the cover is hidden. Barnes and Noble said that the magazine came that way, representatives for Dossier say...
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Ten Questions for Candidates →
1) Leaders on the religious right often say that America is a “Christian Nation.” Do you agree with this statement?
2) Do you think Houses of Worship should be allowed to endorse political candidates and retain their tax exempt status?
3) Do you think public schools should sponsor school prayer or, as a parent, should this choice be left to me?
4) Would you support a law that...
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"I Cannot Eat Your Prayers": How Student Debt... →
You speak of poverty as if it is something “outside,” something “other.” It is never “us.” “We” are upwardly mobile, well-educated people who grew up in the suburbs.
You insist on praying for people like me, but you haven’t the slightest idea that I walk among you. … I am unlucky, but I don’t think “downtrodden” describes me very well. I’m not downtrodden. I’m pissed off. So, no, I do not...
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Marijuana use continues to rise among U.S. teens,... →
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Second Neti-Pot Death From Amoeba Prompts... →
“Drinking water is good to drink, very safe to drink, but not to push up your nose,” says Raoult Ratard, state epidemiologist for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. Two residents of his state have died after using neti pots this year, the first known deaths associated with neti pots.
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Gay community apologizes to Amy Koch for ruining... →
The gay and lesbian community of Minnesota has issued a letter of apology to recently resigned Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch for ruining the institution of marriage and causing her to stray from her husband and engage in an “inappropriate relationship.” “On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community’s...
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Study: Having An Abortion Does Not Increase Risk... →
Last week, the UK Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC), published the world’s largest, most comprehensive and systematic review of mental health outcomes and abortion care. The review included 44 high-quality studies done in developed countries and published between 1990 and 2011. …
On the basis of the best evidence available, the Steering Group concluded that:
Having an unwanted...
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Huge news: multiple sclerosis is a metabolic... →
In the latest issue of the Quarterly Review of Biology (Vol 86 Number 4, December 2011), in a paper titled “Multiple Sclerosis is Not a Disease of the Immune System,” Dr Angelique Corthals argues that multiple sclerosis (MS) isn’t a disease of the immune system: it is caused by faulty lipid metabolism. … This is huge. It is not an incremental improvement of what’s...
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U.S. Government Licenses Patent for Medical... →
Dec. 15, 2011–The Union of Medical Marijuana Patients has just discovered that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is about to award an exclusive license to KannaLife Sciences, Inc. of New York to develop medical therapeutics based on the chemistry of cannabis.
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Software Developers and Insomnia: Pushing Beta... →
The mental activity associated with coding and all IT work is that of mathematics”, says Dr. David Dubin, medical director for Sleep Recovery Centers, Inc. “And the frequency produced by the mathematical brain is clearly that of beta. In code writers, that beta is totally pushed to extremes”.
It seems that there is also a fine line between mathematical beta and and the anxiety...