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Shock and Horror: Teens Use Cell Phones for Sex Pix
(AP) Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves. The instant text, picture and ...
The Fascist Parents Television Council
The self-righteous and power-hungry "Parents Television Council" is at it again. Recently the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by ...
Poetic Justice for Spitzer
Apparently in his heart of hearts, Eliot Spitzer agrees with my position that people should have the right to pay for sex. But he built a political career on locking ...
A Feminist Atheist Perspective on Marriage
Gamophobia - fear of marriage - is a little-used term to mark a still less acknowledged concept. I hold my hands up to it, not waving but drowning under the ...
Second Largest Doctor’s Group Endorses Medipot
In a position paper, a leading American medical association has endorsed the medicinal use of marijuana, called for more studies of its medical uses, and urged the US government to ...
Religious Delusion Hampers Nanotechnology
Addressing scientists Feb. 15, 2008 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dietram Scheufele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of life sciences communication, presented ...
Islam’s Defensive Play: Keep Abused Women from Blaming Religion
On WorldChanging, normally a site I have a great deal of respect for, an article appeared by Erica Barnett which reeked of white liberal elitist ...
Public Transport Turns to Public Humiliation for Women
Social humiliation of women who look too attractive has now spread from German buses (previous post) to U.S. planes. Southwest Airlines (which founder Herb Kelleher had ironically dubbed "the ...
DOJ Targets Adult Social Networking
DOJ Targets Adult Social Networking
From the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force:
The federal government is proposing regulations that would effectively kill adult social-networking sites. This is being done under ...
Americans aren’t reading anymore
One in four adults say they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday. Of those who did read, women and ...
Sex video causes outrage in Nigeria’s Muslim north
ABUJA (Reuters) - An amateur video of a northern Nigerian film actress in a sex scene has caused a public outcry in the Muslim north, prompting a movie industry body ...
China tells Tibet’s living Buddhas to apply for reincarnation
BEIJING (AFP) - Tibetan living Buddhas are no longer allowed to be reincarnated without permission from the atheist Chinese government, state media reported Friday. The new rules are "an ...
NYC Health Officials Move To Get Babies Off Bottle
Even though some formulas use nutrients found in breast milk, city doctors say research proves the natural way is best. "Decrease in infections, upper respiratory, ear," said ...
Druggists Sue Over Morning After Pill
(CBS/AP) Pharmacists have sued Washington state over a new regulation that requires them to sell emergency contraception, also known as the morning-after pill. In a lawsuit filed in federal court ...
Think Outside the Bottle
Think Outside the Bottle
A new activist organization to raise awareness of worldwide water issues. From their front page:
The United Nations warns us that by 2025, two-thirds of the world’s ...
Religion reporter quits beat over religious fraud
AS the stories piled up, I began to pray with renewed vigor, but it felt like I wasn't connecting to God. I started to feel silly even trying. ...
NPR : Saudi Government Curbs Religious Police
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry has ordered the controversial religious police in the conservative Wahhabi kingdom to stop detaining or interrogating citizens suspected of violating Islamic law. The decree comes as ...
Too sexy for my bus, woman told
"Suddenly he stopped the bus," the woman named Debora C. told Bild newspaper. "He opened the door and shouted at me 'Your cleavage is distracting me every time I look ...
Book-banning mom can’t even convince own son
Eighty books in high school library stacks are corrupting students with tales of abortion, homosexuality and atheism. That's according to a West Palm Beach mother who has appealed to the ...
Babies lie to their parents before they can talk
Whether lying about raiding the biscuit tin or denying they broke a toy, all children try to mislead their parents at some time. Yet it now appears that babies learn ...
US juries get verdict wrong in one of six cases
US juries get verdict wrong in one of six cases
So much for US justice: juries get the verdict wrong in one out of six criminal cases and judges ...
‘Blasphemy Laws’ - They still don’t get it
The blasphemy laws of this country do not include Hinduism which is the third largest religion in the world, with over one billion practitioners. All attacks on our temples have ...
Who Loves Designer Vaginas?
What are you gonna do about the fact that Mother Nature once again appears to be thwarting and mocking and then grinning like a wicked divine trickster at every cute ...
Brownback the Brown Nose, and his accomplices
Where does the attitude that compromise is the way to go come from, anyway? Which group was it that cut the legs out from under the American pro-life effort at ...
Religion Must Not Cling to What We Know Isn’t True
Rabbi Rami explores the difference between faith and belief, and explains why modern religion must remain grounded in what science has revealed: “If science can disprove some aspect of Judaism, ...