October 17th, 2007

Wild Politics

I’ve been too politically discouraged lately to read much nonfiction, but last night I picked up Susan Hawthorne’s Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, and Bio/Diversity and started glancing through it. Like all the best books, her arguments are too complex to excerpt well, but here’s part of her discussion of the meanings of “wild” […]

October 10th, 2007

Fat camp? Torture camp, more like.

Sandy has a story about the humiliation and abuse undergone by fat kids in “residential treatment programs.”

October 6th, 2007

Free Speech Shouldn’t End at Verizon’s Door

From SaveTheInternet.com:
Verizon got caught blocking pro-choice text messages on Wednesday. The phone company backpedaled on Thursday and lifted the ban. It was a simple glitch, a Verizon spokesman declared, and they felt really, really bad about it.
Today, Verizon is in full damage control, hoping this cloud will blow over in time for its next assault […]

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