Kudos!

Our very own Shamash is featured in an upcoming book, “So Far and Yet So Near: Stories of Americans Abroad.” It’s a collection of stories written by Americans living overseas and is available from American Citizens Abroad (ACA). You can order it directly from the publisher via the link, order it from Amazon or request [...]

Reality 101

Washington State has once again declined a chance to take a stand for sexual literacy by not acting on the half dozen bills in the legislature to require sex education. What is required, if sex ed is taught at all, is a push for abstinence. Anything else is up to the individual school districts. That [...]

It’s a bizarro world

“But I heard it on the news – it must be true!”

Dancin’ shoes

Which literary classic are you?

Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil. You are one of the most loved and hated poetic works. Death and decadence are important themes for you, but none should overlook your impressive aesthetics, either. Deep down youre not evil at all, you just like to play the tough guy on the block. Which literature classic are [...]

Blog Against Sexism Day

Timed to coincide with International Women’s Day, 8 March 2006 is Blog Against Sexism Day. Be part of the awareness campaign. I’m sure all of us have experiences to share, so I urge everyone, men and women of all ages, to take part. More details can be found at VeganKid. When you write a post, [...]

Look, listen, learn

You don’t have to attend MIT to get an MIT education. The MIT World Distributed Intelligence education center now makes available streaming video of hundreds of lectures given on campus, including Human Genetics, Our Past and Our Future, Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women, and Patriotism and Reconstruction: Washington, DC after Conquest and Arson [...]

In the bad lands

I’ve thought long and hard whether or not to take on the issue of the abortion ban passed this week in South Dakota. It’s an area and people I know well, having grown up less than 60 miles away over the border in Iowa. In my youth it was a fiercy independent state with a [...]

Fast and sneaky

I’m feeling cranky today. While Volkswagen is under fire–rightly–for it’s misogynist “my fast” commercials, there’s another little thing they do that doesn’t draw much attention. They add a commercial tag line to the captions on every show they sponsor or partially sponsor. I need captions, for both television and movies. Without them, I can’t pick [...]

What was your lullabye?

When they were babies, I didn’t know many traditional songs so I sang my kids to sleep with spirituals and current classics by The Eagles, John Mellencamp and Dan Fogelberg. Now you can find out what your parents might have sung to you. From the NST Lounge comes this Billboard listing of the #1 hit [...]

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