Archive | December 17, 2010

How women's rights could actually save the planet

by on December 17, 2010 in Environment & Nature, Family & Marriage, Health, Politics, Law & Government, Race & Gender

by Kate Smurthwaite Oh dear Peter Preston in The Guardian. Talk about missing the point!! The thing is that YES – solving the problem of runaway climate change is dependent on limiting and reducing the population. But NO that doesn’t mean adopting a China-style one child policy or running around like crazed eugenicists sterilising anyone […]

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Time for America's Freddie Mercury moment: there are more than 100 gay pro athletes in the US, and the sooner they get out of the equipment closet the better

by on December 17, 2010 in American Culture, Freedom & Privacy, LGBT, Media & Entertainment, Music & Popular Culture, Politics, Law & Government, Religion, Sports

In a recent discussion on one of my political lists Sara Robinson (easily one of the brightest folks in the blogosphere) made an important point about what often causes people to migrate from socially conservative perspectives to more progressive points of view. In describing her experiences with a particular activist group that helped people leaving […]

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