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”.
It’s weird looking at the pictures of the floods in Venice, because I’ve actually been to the places I see in the pictures…
This is Piazza San Marco, with the basilica in the background. The place was full of tourists, feeding the birds and being told off for sitting on the steps by little old Italian […]
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, […]
