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• Detroit: Where Liberalism Leads

  
  Marquette Warrior — Authority: 118
  
  12 hours ago

• Would Darwin give a monkey’s about global warming?

  
  The Ugley Vicar — Authority: 489
  So the Copenhagen summit has come and gone, “and we have not brought salvation to the earth” (Is 26:18). Doubtless, the global warming saga will run for some time, as will the question about the extent to which mankind is responsible for causing it and capable of curing it. As I looked at the televised ...
  21 hours ago

• Men, Alcohol, and Sexual Assault: A Policy Proposal Modeled on the Successful Drunk-Driving Awareness Initiatives

  
  Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine — Authority: 520
  This post is a follow-up on a previous post about men, alcohol, and sexual assault. This post and the previous ones are responses to Jessica Valenti’s post, “A “what about the menz?!” I can get behind,” at Feministing . I recommend extending the current social infrastructure around drunk driving to ...
  1 day ago

• A sperm donation is for life, not just for Christmas

  
  Irish Election — Authority: 539
  Look, I realise that The Irish Times only provides Breda O’Brien with a column to get its liberal readership riled up. Nobody wants to read opinions that conform rigidly to the mainstream the whole time (on which point, here ’s an insidiously good article on how climate change is grand). Well, I am riled up, ...
  2 days ago

• Decline in informal volunteering: time for a network solution?

  
  Neighbourhoods — Authority: 414
  The latest topic reports from the 2007-2008 citizenship survey have been published, one on race, religion and equalities , and this one on volunteering which shows a 2% overall drop in regular informal volunteering and a 5% decrease among young people. Informal volunteering covers things like giving advice, ...
  3 days ago

• Community Development Programme… Cut.

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 480
  Yesterday: 29 community development projects have been told they will no longer receive Government funding from tomorrow and will have to close. The closure is subject to an appeals process, which will give them one month’s funding while the appeal is being decided. John Curran, Minister of State at ...
  4 days ago

• Speaking of science, bioethics to be precise, consider this…

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 480
  A small country on the edge of Europe, a supposed leader in certain technologies, has a remarkably impoverished oversight regime in place as regards a raft of areas. Times are tough, but the issues that such oversight is necessary to address keep on coming up. Why, only some days previously a landmark case appears in ...
  4 days ago

• The Dental Benefit Scheme…

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 480
  David, I know you are very busy but wish to bring a matter to your attention which I suggest Congress may wish to act on as a matter of great urgency. I write to suggest that Congress may wish to assist us in notifying up to two million PRSI-eligible persons, many of whom will be members of Congress affiliates, that ...
  4 days ago

• European Union: Occupational safety and health

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 434
  It is very well to rave about the cost of EU regulation for the business sector of country X, but one may ask forgiveness for wishing for more nuanced views at times. First of all, if all enterprises in the European Union and the rest of the European Economic Area are subject to the same rules, their playing-field ...
  6 days ago

• Homosexuality and the Law: Uganda might look to Britain

  
  The Ugley Vicar — Authority: 489
  The news that Lillian Ladele, a Christian registrar who refused to register civil partnerships as a matter of religious conscience, has lost her appeal against dismissal suggests to me that the Ugandans, who are currently considering draconian legislation regarding homosexuality, might actually have a point. The ...
  6 days ago

• The largest slave graveyard in the world

  
  The History Blog — Authority: 128
  Archaeologists have the bones of some 10,000 slaves buried on the island of St. Helena. That desolate spit of land in the middle of the Atlantic is best known today for having hosted a certain Napoleon Bonaparte during the six years between his final defeat at Waterloo and his death, but decades after Napoleon ...
  1 week ago

• We Need New Words For Our Madness

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 726
  George Orwell gave a powerful warning of the dangers of ceding control of the language, and therefore the range of possible thoughts, to authorities who understood how to shape it so to render the population incapable of independent action. I am a sensitive to the ways in which we allow manipulators of various sorts, ...
  1 week ago

• We Need New Words For Our Madness

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 170
  George Orwell gave a powerful warning of the dangers of ceding control of the language, and therefore the range of possible thoughts, to authorities who understood how to shape it so to render the population incapable of independent action. I am a sensitive to the ways in which we allow manipulators of various sorts, ...
  1 week ago

• We Need New Words For Our Madness

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 170
  George Orwell gave a powerful warning of the dangers of ceding control of the language, and therefore the range of possible thoughts, to authorities who understood how to shape it so to render the population incapable of independent action. I am a sensitive to the ways in which we allow manipulators of various sorts, ...
  1 week ago

• Up the wrong tree? Social exclusion in the network society

  
  Neighbourhoods — Authority: 414
  Yesterday, absorbed in that well-known activity of looking for something else, I happened across a book chapter on income inequality and the information society. It argues that poor people stand to be excluded from the information society by being priced out of commercial information services, and left with an ...
  1 week ago

• Italian police bust up huge looting ring

  
  The History Blog — Authority: 128
  Italian police announced today that they’ve broken up a huge looting ring , recovering thousands of artifacts destined to be smuggled to countries including the United States. During more than a year of investigations, authorities recovered nearly 1,700 statues, vases and other artifacts dating from pre-Roman ...
  1 week ago

• ‘While Blindness is a terrible disability…’

  
  Maman Poulet — Authority: 513
  Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Mary Hanafin, was responding to the committee stage of the Social Welfare Bill (No. 2) in the Dáil today – (after Gogartygate). The bill provides for the cuts in social welfare of 4.1% for all social welfare payments for those under 65 and a cut in childnd I benefit. I heard ...
  1 week ago

• Concern at Saudi school plan

  
  Irish Election — Authority: 539
  Concerns have been raised at plans by the Government of Saudi Arabia to establish a school with an Islamic ethos in Dublin, according to the Irish Times. The plans have been announced in Arabic on the website of the Saudi embassy in Dublin which opened in September. From the Irish Times on Wednesday: According to ...
  1 week ago

• A Smart Budget for a Smart Economy?

  
  Irish Election — Authority: 539
  [Cross-posted on TheStory - please appreciate I wrote this at 1.30am after a day spent reading official documents. Mistakes are a possibility, Im open to discussion in comments section] It’s about a year since An Taoiseach announced plans to develop ‘The Smart Economy’ (the successor to ‘The Knowledge ...
  1 week ago

• Another Czar Poorly Vetted

  
  On the Western Banks of the Shenandoah — Authority: 135
  Perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of Barrack Obama’s adminstration so far has been just how many cabinet level and lower level appointees have very shady pasts. A number have had tax trouble–some made it through Congress, some didn’t. What’s far more troubling, though, is how many individuals with ...
  1 week ago

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