Somehow this afternoon the Internet was talking to me about serious and worrying things. They’re all interesting and thought-provoking articles, so I thought I’d post them - partly for other people to see, and partly so that I don’t lose them*…
1. Fascist America: Are We There Yet?
This article - dated last friday - looks at […]
“Late abortion is not a failure of contraception. It’s for medical reasons,” Eleanor Smeal, the president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, who has worked to defend abortion providers like Tiller against harassment and violence since the mid-1980s, told me this week. “We’ve made pregnancy a fairy tale where there are no fetal complications, there’s no […]
In 1994 my wife and I found out that she was pregnant. The pregnancy was difficult and unusually uncomfortable but her doctor repeatedly told her things were fine. Sometime early in the 8th month my wife, an RN who at the time was working in an infertility clinic asked the Dr. she was working for […]
Here’s an interesting article about the complex diversity of America’s new First Family, on Michelle’s side as well as Barack’s. The article talks about how this sort of diversity reflects the real complexity of most people’s lives and histories - not the cookie-cutter stereotypes we’re so often fed as “normal”.
I wanted to write something about California’s Proposition 8 and related referendums in other states. Luckily for you, I’ve found some people who say it so much better than I can, and with less disgusted ranting, and more compassion and hope than I could wrap words around. If you can’t be bothered reading it all, […]
I’ve been having trouble putting words around my thoughts about the election and its outcome. But this morning I was drifting through the Internets and found a couple of commentary/opinion articles that seem to express similar thoughts to mine…
Howard’s end - Guardian, UK
Divisive Leader who squandered Australia’s hopes - Sydney Morning Herald
As you can guess […]
This arrived in our postbox today:
Wow, that’s a lot of people coloured in red, the colour of danger! Better not vote for them…
But if you do the maths: 30 people, 6 not coloured in, 24 coloured in => 80% coloured in
The visual cue of ‘how many Labor people are dangerous unionists’ does not match that […]
This is a timely and interesting link:
Is political orientation wired in the brain?
I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s “hard-wired”, but political orientation seems that it might be at least partly related to brain hardware. I wonder which way round the causality goes? If older people tend to be more conservative, and us […]
