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linkage 2/28/07
MilbyDaniel: Iraq 101. MilbyDaniel pulls out some eye-opening facts from Mother Jones’ study, The Iraq Effect, which examines changes in Iraq and in the world since the invasion. Among the observations: since the start of the so-called War on Terror, the incidence of global “terrorism” has increased sevenfold. (“Terrorism” has to go in quotes since…
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linkage 1/30/07
Via UBUNTU! by way of brownfemipower – “Duke-ing It Out in the Court of Public Opinion,” an op-ed on the Duke rape case from Wendy Murphy, a former prosecutor and law professor at the New England School of Law. Piny from Feministe critiques the woman-disregarding concept of “fetal abuse.” Via Poplicks’ Question of the Week:…
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linkage – 1/3/2007
I’m wrapping up my holiday visit with my parents, so here are some quick links of notes. Life Support for Feminist Health Care?, on the more-than-worrisome decline of available feminist health care for women, especially low income women, in the US. From the article: “A true societal commitment to quality, funded health care for poor…
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I have smart friends.
Many of them, in fact. Here’s some recent words from two of them. My friend Dean writes about polyamory in “For Lovers and Fighters” on Make. This article really resonated with me, as a currently poly person, in so many ways. In it, he touches on many things: “how interrogating the limits of monogamy fits…
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linkage
Since I’m a little behind on the blogging, and since I realized that I rarely link to those blogs that I read regularly, I figured I would redress both situations in one fell swoop. AngryBlackBitch masterfully calls out Dick Cheney, and the government at large, for his hypocrisy-laden “tough talk” for Russia. This government doesn’t…