February 2012
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A few months ago I was a card carrying Conservative, serving as a director on...
– Ex-Conservative has warning - thestar.com
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Burning Man 2011, Rites of Passage (by Ali N) sigh… it just looks so amazing.
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Dear Temple of Transition [Burning Man 2011]
by Ian MacKenzie
*Watch full-screen with sound up!* Dear Temple of Transition: I love you. You are the most beautiful human-shaped structure I have ever seen. It was an honour to serve you as a Temple Guardian. And when it came time for you to go, I couldn’t watch you burn. Instead, I watched it in the eyes of others and I know what you...
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Babaamr is facing a genocide right now. I will never forgive you for your...
– One of Syrian citizen journalist Rami Al-Sayed’s last messages. The 27-year-old Al-Sayed, who bravely documented what was going on in the wartorn city of Homs, was actively targeted by the regime’s shelling according to activists. He ran a live feed of the bombardment of his city, out of the...
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The Political Notebook: kateoplis: “They call it... →
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“They call it the widows’ basement. Crammed amid makeshift beds and scattered belongings are frightened women and children trapped in the horror of Homs, the Syrian city shaken by two weeks of relentless bombardment. Among the 300 huddling in this wood factory cellar in the…
This was journalist Marie Colvin’s final report from Syria, before she was killed today in Homs, Syria....
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What Makes a Baby is my response to the fact that books about where babies come from leave many of us out. They tell a nice story (mommy + daddy + intercourse = you!) but the truth is that more and more of us are acknowledging the help we get to bring children into our lives. That help might be a doctor, fertility clinic, adoption or foster agency; it might be a turkey baster and a friend; it...
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I thought I would celebrate this sexy holiday with the movie that purportedly has the first female orgasm in film history, Ecstasy. This 1933 Czech film turned largely unknown actress Heddy Lamarr into a sensation.
Not only was the gorgeous Heddy naked but writhing in ecstasy, hence the title. The movie’s love scene (for those who don’t want to watch the film all the way through, and...
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We have just 24 SHORT hours to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
The...
– 24 hours to stop Keystone XL :: The Indigenous Environmental Network | MyNewsletterBuilder
shit.
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Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest...
– Bryce Courtenay (via infinitives)
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1890:The Wounded Knee Massacre.
The holy man, Black Elk, said, “I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloodly mud and was buried...