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Great idea. I recommend the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (which, by the way, the United States, Somalia, and South Sudan are the only UN members not to have ratified).
Political Documents 101
Discussion in recent posts has reminded us how important it can be to have access to copies of documents central to the functioning of our own and other countries. To help each other get access to those things we are posting this article with links to some of those documents. As commenters make...
I can't speak for B&N, but Amazon will let you "return" an e-book within something like 72 hours. May be able to get your $2 back.
Housekeeping Notes
So I was planning on having a post up at 8 o'clock on Monday morning, but my weekend ended up being not at all what I was intending it to be. Shit happens, I guess. Either way, I figure I should toss some housekeeping notes and a bit of a preview up. I mentioned that I wanted to look at Chris...
Thank you for your heartfelt post, Phoenix. I see myself in your experience, especially in the bit about not taking responsibility for my own decisions until I made Big Decisions in ways that greatly differed from the way my parents, church communities, friends and family would have recommended or desired.
Fortunately for me, I had never really internalized the whole fear of hell thing. I think I was never able to really believe it.
Depart from me, I never knew you
Trigger warning/disclaimer: This is a story of my experience with the Christian religion and its (primarily negative) effect on my life and values. It is categorically NOT any kind of indictment against Christians. Since the transition described in this post, I have come to develop great respec...
1) Started coming here somewhere in '05-'06ish, and quickly caught up on the LB Friday posts.
2) LB posts are still my favorite; I love Fred's ability to make connections and draw the bigger picture of just how vile L&J are.
3) I'm a person who wants to know more about the world I live in.
Monday Meet and Greet
TBAT have set aside this thread for an online meet and greet party. Some of our readers have been around for years and some have just found us. Some people have never posted, some people have posted occasionally and some people have posted so often that they just assume that everyone "out there...
Great post, Ana. Thank you.
I don't have much intelligent to say, but wanted to point you in the direction of a critique of the Evangelical Christian embrace of the Twilight books:
“Why Are You Apologizing for Bleeding?” Confronting the Evangelical Embrace of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga
Good Girls Tell Lies: Internalized Misogyny in Twilight
TBAT is pleased to present the first Slacktiverse Special There’s a chance you’ve heard of “Twilight” – Stephenie Meyer’s four-book series on sparkly vampires have won multiple awards including the 2008 British Book Award for “Children’s Book of the Year” and the 2009 Kids’ Choice Award for “...
Sullivan just brought up that poll, too:
That poll that Fred Hiatt ran this morning? Showing 2-1 Ahmadinejad support. It was taken three weeks before the vote, before the campaign took off, and it had one huge asterisk in it:
The poll that appears in today's op-ed shows a 2 to 1 lead in the thinnest sense: 34 percent of those polled said they'd vote for Ahmadinejad, 14 percent for Mousavi. That leaves 52 percent unaccounted for. In all, 27 percent expressed no opinion in the election, and another 15 percent refused to answer the question at all. Six percent said they'd vote for none of the listed candidates; the rest for minor candidates.
For we are lovers of the beautiful
by von Ayatollah Khamenei -- Iran's Supreme leader and, possibly, the most beautifully-named despot in the world* -- has apparently changed course. There will now be some investigation into the allegations of fraud surrounding Ahmedinejad's election. A good start, but a far cry from the full pr...
I think there are times when violence is acceptable. (Killing Hitler leaps to mind.)
I agree. Which is why I think it's clear that the 'pro-life' movement does not believe its own rhetoric.
If every fetus, embryo and blastocyst carried equal moral value as a Jew in a concentration camp; if you really believed that Hitler lived next door and murdered people every day; if you believed that the government was so corrupt and incompetent as to be complicit in genocide - from that perspective, some pretty drastic action seems appropriate and proportional.
The fact that pro-lifers aren't all rejoicing, the fact that they don't consider Dr. Tiller's assassin a righteous martyr, means that they don't believe their own propaganda (i.e. that abortion = murder).
This is a good thing. I just wish they'd drop the invective - it's clearly confusing some people.
In Which I Disagree With Megan McArdle Some More
by hilzoy Megan McCardle has a rather peculiar response to my last post: "Listening to the debates about abortion, it seems to me that really broad swathes of the pro-choice movement seem to genuinely not understand that this is a debate about personhood, which is why you get moronic statements ...
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