Starved for justice

Hunger in America is on the rise. In 2008, 14.6 percent of U.S. households fell into the food-insecure category at some point during the year—the highest rate since the Department of Agriculture started recording stats in 1995. At the same time, legislation to improve childhood nutrition is now making its way through Congress. Last week [...]

No hablo fanatismo

Institutionalized racism comes to Arizona.  I can guarantee that the blond-haired blue-eyed governor won’t be the one be forced to show a birth certificate on demand.  Her neighbor with dark skin, however, won’t be so lucky. Via Buzzfeed

100 years ago in Kansas

Note the limiter “especially if she were the head of the house.”  A married woman remained under the assumed dominion of her husband for another fifty years. Via Boing Boing, via Scott Westerfeld

Do as I say, not as I do?

Russ’ Filtered News calls out the Republicans with his Open Letter to Conservatives.  Point by point he breaks the fight down and shows just how ridiculous the Right is. A short excerpt: Hypocrisy You can’t flip out — and threaten impeachment – when Dems use a parlimentary procedure (deem and pass) that you used repeatedly [...]

If only civility were a fertilized egg

From Talking Points Memo: Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) has come forward and admitted that he was the one who yelled “baby killer” during the House debate on the health care bill last night. In his statement, Neugeubauer said that he meant to refer to the bill as “a baby killer,” not Stupak himself. That said, [...]

Because they have decided not to continue the pregnancy. Period.

From Fox4 KC: // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ /* */ (function(){ var tickercontent = []; tickercontent.push(‘Kansas City Events Calendar’);tickercontent.push(‘Working for You: Today\’s Jobs’); return new TT.VerticalTicker(tickercontent,”div.bn-ticker-4914″,{pausetime : parseInt(’2′)}); })(); /* */ // ]]> JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A state senator wants Missouri to collect information from women about why they choose to have [...]

It’s not like they’re real people or anything

In a disturbing report out of New Orleans, Color Lines writes about sex workers–particularly those who are women of color–being charged with felony “unnatural copulation” when they are arrested for prostitution. What’s unnatural?  Oral or anal sex, of course.  As a result, these women are serving longer sentences and being forced to register for 15 [...]

A day in court

A couple of weeks ago I received a summons to appear in traffic court.  The woman who caused my car accident was fighting her ticket and all of us involved had to show up to testify.  So yesterday I trekked downtown to the courthouse to do my civic duty. Step one was to get through [...]

“Criminally insane killer escapes”

Spokane is in a panic today, with KXLY4-News flooding Twitter with updates and photos of a patient from Eastern State Hospital who walked away while on a supervised group field trip to the Spokane Interstate Fair. The coverage seems guaranteed to inflame our deepest fears of the mentally ill. 22 years ago Phillip Paul was [...]

Oops! My bad.

Violate a protection order and strangle a woman? Claim it was an accident and that the goal was to knock her unconscious with a “sleeper hold.” Sentence: 5 years. Selling an ounce of marijuana will get you more time than that. Ergo, it’s worse to get someone high than to kill a woman. Times like [...]

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