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• 12 Donations: Ali Forney Center/BAGLY

  
  Dan4th the Touchy Tranny — Authority: 110
  For my November donation, Ive given to New York Citys Ali Forney Center and (because Im really not such a huge fan of NYC), also to the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth (BAGLY) . I struggled with this one. I avoid giving to groups that Im theoretically a part of, because it ...
  8 hours ago

• Health Care Part 6 – A Right or a Privilege

  
  Stand Up For America — Authority: 124
  Allow me to first apologize that I was still unable to get through all of the health care bill passed by the House of (Non)Representatives on Saturday night. I am working through the first half of the week preparing for my business to run without me for the second half of the week. Never an easy task. Please remember ...
  13 hours ago

• Women Live Longer but Less Healthy Lives Than Men

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  This seems appropriate after the US healthcare bill fiasco: WHO | WHO calls for action beyond the health sector to improve the health of girls and women via kwout The differential then has to do with structural discrimination an social stratification. Women are on the receiving end of many more ...
  20 hours ago

• What if you lack the ‘penis requirement’ to pen one of the best books of 2009?

  
  Professor, What If...? — Authority: 98
  As reported at She Writes , Publishers’ Weekly published its “Best Books of 2009″ list on November 2 nd . Guess what? It included 0% women authors. Yeah, cuz we all know a penis is defo required for quality writing… Gag. The post included a call to action to submit lists for the Top Ten Best Books of ...
  1 day ago

• The Limits of Clergy Privilege

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 592
  When I was a new minister serving a small Unitarian congregation in Danbury, Connecticut, I took some dry cleaning in to the local cleaners. When I took my checkbook out, the lady behind the counter saw that my checks said “Rev.” on them, and she promptly offered me a 10% discount. I was stunned. A 10% discount ...
  1 day ago

• Pittsburgh Mayor: Tax College Tuition to Balance Budget

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl plans to propose a 1 percent college-education privilege tax to council today, in a move thats likely to set off a fight with the citys schools of higher learning. College and university representatives met with the mayor on Wednesday and argued against the tax, which would be assessed ...
  1 day ago

• “Are Flu Shots Like Bonuses?” – Social Privilege Yet Again

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  Some people deserve to live disease-free more than others. That’s the beauty of the being part of the power elite. Is there any privilege that the financial class does not enjoy? Wall Street bankers at front of queue for scarce swine flu vaccine | Business | guardian.co.uk via kwout What everyone is ...
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• Evan Harris accuses Alan Johnson of a "litany of errors" over Professor Nutt dismissal comments

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 174
  Dr Evan Harris, the Lib Dem MP and science spokesperson has written a letter to Alan Johnson the Home Secretary drawing his attention to a number of factual inaccuracies in the statements Mr Johnson made to the House of Commons last Monday in the debate about his dismissal of Professor Nutt. Dr Harris charges Mr ...
  2 days ago

• Reds under the chaise longue

  
  Bearwatch — Authority: 472
  Why would someone concentrate his academic research on how America has tried to counter Communism within its own country? But (and I think it more telling) why would the Labour Party notice and employ such a person? Andrew Neathers PHD and a follow-up article surface in several places on the Web, e.g.: "Popular ...
  2 days ago

• Clap if you believe in gender!

  
  Shades of Gray — Authority: 404
  This might be a post which will generate some heated debate, maybe make some people start to hate me, but you know what, guys? I fucking hate the word “agender.” I see people calling themselves this fairly often in the asexual community–in fact, roughly 18% of the respondents to my survey on asexuality and ...
  2 days ago

• Is Verizons $350 Early-Termination Fee Anti-Consumer?

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 461
  Beginning Nov. 15, Verizon subscribers looking to get out of their smart-phone contracts early will pay $350 for the privilege. That early-termination fee is double the current one, but Verizon insists is justified because of the higher prices of todays phones.
  2 days ago

• Social Privilege and Allocating Blame

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  If a white person commits an atrocity, it’s because that person has mental health problems If a non-white person commits an atrocity, it is because non-white people all have self-control problems of some kind (translation: they’re not as civilized as “we” are) If a person with an Arab name (Note to the ...
  3 days ago

• I Hope It’s Just The Water

  
  Chandler Criminal Defense — Authority: 483
  I tried to get through my 1:00 p.m. meeting on Thursday early enough to catch some of the most recent contempt proceedings in this case. You can get additional information about what’s going on here , here , here , here , and here , but I’ll give you a single, run-on-sentence summary of what people are ...
  3 days ago

• Northwestern 2009

  
  Resist racism — Authority: 541
  Another blackface incident.   Another white student who is not pictured also dressed in blackface.    This is apparently a repeat of 2007, in which two Ph.D. students dressed in blackface.  The university’s statement?  Yeah, it’s offensive but it didn’t break any rules. Among other things, what this tells ...
  3 days ago

• Big Oil, Corporate Greed, and Social Sin

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 629
  As an urbanite fortunate to live within walking distance of work and trendy restaurants, I rarely drive these days. But running late to a pickup basketball game recently, I was low on gas and quickly pulled into the first station…
  4 days ago

• Quarter-final spot is achievable for South Africa: Parreira

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Johannesburg, Nov 6 (DPA) The coach of dispirited World Cup hosts South Africa said Friday he believed Bafana Bafana could clinch a spot in the quarter-finals.Carlos Alberto Parreira was speaking a day after he arrived back in South Africa on his second stint as national football coach.“I would not have accepted ...
  4 days ago

• Spouting BS As Social Privilege

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  Denis Colombi notes this wonderful gem from former Judo superstar turned right-wing politician (you see where this is going, don’t you?): Une heure de peine…: David Douillet est-il Français ? via kwout Let me offer a rough translation of this steaming pile: “To me, a woman doing judo or in another ...
  4 days ago

• White Evangelicals and their “Toolsets”

  
  The Mustard Seed — Authority: 123
  An excerpt from my other blog about race relations and white evangelicals: The racially important cultural tools in the white evangelical tool kit are “accountable freewill individualism,” “relationism” (attaching central importance to interpersonal relationships), and antistructuralism (inability to ...
  5 days ago

• What if Homophobia was Resisted Twilight style?

  
  Professor, What If...? — Authority: 98
  The following piece is cross-posted here . As it argues, Twilight is a rampantly heteronormative series. Yet, given its concurrent rampant popularity, why not seize the opportunity to consider the ways  the Twilight cultural phenomonon can be used to furtheer discussion about gender, sexuality, racism, classism, ...
  5 days ago

• Continuing an Honest Conversation on Race

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 629
  I want to follow up on yesterday’s post which I believe has broken the record for the longest title in history: “Three General Thoughts on Deadly Vipers, Mike Foster, Jud Wilhite, Soong-Chan Rah, Chuck Norris, Joyluck Club, Angry Asian Man,…
  5 days ago

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