DNA Exoneration: Sometimes they really are guilty
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/1128012.html This article examines the statistical success of The Innocence Project’s DNA testing program. 43% of the inmates who request the DNA testing are exonerated by it. However, the figure … Continue reading
The Hard Price of Bullying
http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid78827.asp The link is to an interview with the mother eleven year old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover who committed suicide after a protracted campaign of bullying and harassment committed against him … Continue reading
Crime Dramas: The new fairy tales
Much to Ogre’s annoyance, I love crime dramas: Law & Order (all incarnations), CSI, NCIS, Without a Trace. I’ve even started watching CSI: NY and CSI: Miami. There’s something very … Continue reading
On Dworkin and all heterosexual sex as rape.
First, I would like to say that the quote about heterosexual sex being rape is ALWAYS taken out of context, and cited wrongly. She did not call it rape, she … Continue reading
If…
If you have ever said, in response to the abortion debate, “She could just give up the baby,” READ THIS NOW: http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/03/breaking-silence-on-living-pro-lifers.html#disqus_thread This is the story of a birth mother. … Continue reading
I know that not all Catholics are inflexible douchebags, but this…
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/03/quote-of-day_05.html#disqus_thread http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29515505/ * A lawyer for an Archiocese in Brazil said they consider it murder, that a judge granted a NINE YEAR OLD GIRL an abortion because she was raped … Continue reading
Something I’ve been meaning to talk about for awhile.
Misogynist Nerds. Anger at the Stupid, a new blog I just found, names the problem pretty well. Basically the sloppy, disheveled, misogynist douchebag nerd, who will whine and whine and … Continue reading
Relapsing
It’s not drugs, or alcohol. It’s disordered eating. Whenever I get stressed, I stop eating. A lot of eating disorder biographies will tell you that it’s about control, about being … Continue reading
I Loathe Ani DeFranco
I really do. I don’t find her music to be especially inspired or innovative, but more derivative of other musicians I like or have liked in the past. I just … Continue reading
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