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"A woman should never go where she will be raped."
For the past couple of years, I've posted a diary about sexual assault awareness -- mostly to point out that we are none very realistic about what makes us safer than not, and we often have a false...
View ArticleKosAbility: What? Say again???
What did you say? Come again?A lot of us have hearing loss, and it's not clear when it becomes a disability. Profound deafness is clearly disabling. What about those with lesser hearing losses -- or...
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Proof of Big Bang theory wins prestigious award.
Today, the Wilkenson Microwave Anisotropy Probe won the prestigious Gruber Cosmology Prize for "observations and analyses of ancient light have provided the unprecedentedly rigorous measurements of the...
View ArticleThis is Mitt's brain on Bain.
Now who can argue with this???Those decisions were made by folks that were running the company differently. So I don't have the details of what decision-making went into it. Oftentimes what happens...
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CCSOS: Climate change just isn't Santa anymore.
Climate denialists are having some trouble with science these days. Well, they've had trouble all along, but the final nails are in that coffin. The simple fact is that all of their attempts at...
View ArticleBROKEN: New epoch for the war in Congo
As many of you know, a new conflict has been brewing in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo for about a month. In short, the M23 rebel group marched into Goma yesterday, and now has control of the city....
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War to break in DRC over military labor dispute. You can do something to help.
Earlier this week, a rebel militia [M23] captured Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. The streets are calm (for now), but there are more than 1 million people without power or potable water. The water...
View ArticleSCOTUS to decide on DNA collection in rape case.
From RAINN:The US Supreme Court this month announced that it will decide whether it is legally permissible for police to take DNA samples from suspects arrested for violent crimes. The case is an...
View ArticleForward on Climate: The Problem with Novel Technologies
This week, we've had an impressive crop of diaries about the Keystone XL project -- an pipeline that hooks us more deeply into one of the more damaging fossil fuel extractions we've ever seen. Selling...
View ArticleKos Katalogue: Our Choices Matter
I am a consumer. As much as I hate the fact -- I still depend on consumer goods to survive. The overwhelming majority of what I buy is for comfort, though. I rarely ask myself if passing up a purchase...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 9.21: Coming Up Roses
Thanks for having me here today.I read Saturday Morning Garden Blogging often -- but I live on the west coast, so I usually read it late compared to when it posts. I am a great fan of this series,...
View ArticleCommunity Fundraiser: We reached our goal! And the single parent's double bind
Update: Tonya sends her thanks. :)It takes a village.In the United States, we have a habit of lying to ourselves about our independence. Our story is about individual freedoms and personal rights...
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Gothic Basin near Glacier Peak (photos)
The following pictures are from Gothic Basin yesterday. It's a rough hike, in fact, a lot of it isn't what most people would even call trail. It's more like a rock garden. It's steep and there are...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 9.26
Good morning, gardeners. How is the weather treating you?My yard is a slug buffet. It's a freak show, seriously. We had a little rain this week in the Pacific Northwest. That made me happy, because I...
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Hummingbirds: It is so dry in the gentle wilderness.
I've been a regular visitor to the Sierras in California for twenty years. It's hard to express what that means to me, but I'm drawn there and I feel like I belong. The Sierra lets me co-exist. I fell...
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Hummingbirds: The Yosemite Rim Fire
Grocery store parking lot, 50 miles north of the fire. There is always something burning. Fires are part of the natural order of things, in fact, they play an important role in Sierra Nevada ecology....
View ArticleButterfly Woman: Food-like products are making us sick.
A century ago, there was a genuine and serious shortage of food in the United States. Agricultural science went to work to create more efficient ways of producing and storing food with the hope that...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging, Vol. 9.43
Oh, winter. One of the reasons I like vegetable gardening is for the food. It isn't just that it's homegrown, or inexpensive, or that I can choose what to have and how much -- it's the genuine...
View ArticleAre you kidding me, Rand? Teasplain for me, please.
We're comparing the GOP's systematic dismantling of women's control over their reproductive lives to Bill Clinton's consensual affair with Monica Lewinsky."Someone who takes advantage of a young girl...
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