Georgia gets it wrong even while getting it right. A bill to outlaw genital mutilation of female children also outlaws voluntary genital piercings for adult women.
Archive for March 26th, 2004
Still Not Getting It: It's What We Want for Your Body That Counts
Posted in Politics on March 26, 2004 | 8 Comments »
Terrorism: Even Worse Than Anorexia. Or Cheese
Posted in Politics on March 26, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Jonah Goldber has flipped his lid over suicide bombings. The worst thing about terrorism, you see, is that it involves peer pressure.
Another "Pro-Life" Lie Debunked
Posted in Health on March 26, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Specifically, the claim that abortion increases breast cancer risk: LONDON – A miscarriage or abortion does not increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer, according to a study published Friday that analyzed data from more than 50 previous studies. Some of those studies had suggested a possible connection, but the authors of the report published [...]
Republicans Commit Violence Against Women, Democrats Help
Posted in Politics on March 26, 2004 | 7 Comments »
Nasty crypto-anti-choice bill passes the Senate in the guise of protection for pregnant women. Deomocrats came within two votes of substituting a better bill, but gave it away.
FBI Agent: Country Should Have Been on Higher Alert
Posted in Politics on March 26, 2004 | Comments Off
This speaks for itself: A former FBI wiretap translator with top-secret security clearance, who has been called “very credible” by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has told Salon she recently testified to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States that the FBI had detailed information prior to Sept. 11, 2001, that a terrorist [...]
Lest We Forget
Posted in Politics on March 26, 2004 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday, March 25, was the 93rd anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 people, almost all young immigrant women, died in a fire in a sweatshop in New York. The building’s exit doors were locked to prevent the women from taking unauthorized breaks; the only fire escape broke, and the only interior [...]
Friday Time-Waster
Posted in I do too have a life on March 26, 2004 | 1 Comment »
The Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division. Via a story on All Things Considered.
Are They Dumb or just Stupid?
Posted in Politics on March 26, 2004 | 5 Comments »
Hee A secret website that is publicly available to anyone with access to Google. I don’t think the word secret means what the Republicans think it means …
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