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inkback: January 2012
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Links of interest, thoughts and rants, gonzo reports, yada yada. Awesome Woman: Christine Jorgensen. The Awesome Woman of the Day is Christine Jorgensen (1926 - 1989), the first person whose male-to-female sex reassignment surgery became, in 1952, a mainstream news item. She grew up as George William Jorgensen, Jr., in a blue-collar family in Bronx, New York, living as an uncomfortable child inside a boy's body that, according to some sources, never fully developed into male adulthood. This about what ha...
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inkback: worldpress.org -- required reading
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Links of interest, thoughts and rants, gonzo reports, yada yada. Worldpress.org - required reading. I was so sad the day the print format of World Press. Magazine folded, several years ago, and on balance was so glad the day I discovered it had been resuscitated as an online publication. World Press organizes its content around a topic, and presents a selection of articles and analyses from around the planet on that topic, from all kinds of viewpoints. If you believe that it might be important, or at lea...
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inkback: They died but, hey, we gained a strategic relationship
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Links of interest, thoughts and rants, gonzo reports, yada yada. They died but, hey, we gained a strategic relationship. From military dot com. A piece about an Iraq War study done at Brown University:. Study: Iraq War Cost 190K Lives, $2.2 Trillion. Remember the Team Bush estimate of war costs was $50-60 billion? The Costs of War report,. Released ahead of the 10th anniversary. Of the war, included "substantial" costs. To care for wounded veterans. Posted by Ilyse Kazar. More from i.n.kazar. I reject ou...
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inkback: Women's "natural right" to be society's slave
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Links of interest, thoughts and rants, gonzo reports, yada yada. Women's "natural right" to be society's slave. Law professor Shari Motro proposes. Preglimony" - the codified responsibility of a male involved in the conception of a fetus to contribute financially to the mother's well-being while she is pregnant. Dorothea Lange, 1936. We need to rewrite the laws that stipulate that default custody of offspring born "out of wedlock" (isn't wedlock such a strange word? Goes to the woman. WHY? No, the proble...
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inkback: Awesome Woman: Elizabeth Cochran, a.k.a. Nellie Bly
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Links of interest, thoughts and rants, gonzo reports, yada yada. Awesome Woman: Elizabeth Cochran, a.k.a. Nellie Bly. Nellie Bly c. 1890. After a few months barely scraping by in New York, Bly found work doing an undercover investigative assignment for the New York World. And then she republished it as a book to satisfy the demand of a public who were asking for copies. In her own words:. Bly wrote up many details of the treatment and incidents she witnessed at the asylum, and her work "Ten Days in a Mad...
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inkback: Guns Don't Kill People, Ex-Husbands Who Threaten to Put a Cap in Ex-Wives Do
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Links of interest, thoughts and rants, gonzo reports, yada yada. Guns Don't Kill People, Ex-Husbands Who Threaten to Put a Cap in Ex-Wives Do. A chilling episode experienced by a woman who obtained an order of protection from her former husband in a state that does not require him to relinquish his firearms. In all but a few states there is no law allowing a judge to force a threatening individual to do so. Why? Posted by Ilyse Kazar. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). More from i.n.kazar. If you follow...
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inkback: Ban poverty, not soda
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Links of interest, thoughts and rants, gonzo reports, yada yada. Ban poverty, not soda. If you don't know what a quarter water is and you've never resorted to drinking one when in need of liquid and carbs because 25¢ is all you've got, or because in the environment you were brought up in quarter water (or, on rich days, Tropical Fantasy) is what you know . please don't pontificate on the subject of inner-city dietary choices. Ginia Bellafante knocks it outta the park. Posted by Ilyse Kazar. Out On a Limb.
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inkback: March 2012
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Links of interest, thoughts and rants, gonzo reports, yada yada. Awesome Woman: Edra Mbatha. The AWOD for this Sunday March 4 is EDRA MBATHA of Nairobi, Kenya, who has dreamed up an innovative way to protect children from widespread sexual abuse and neglect. After she completed her O levels, Mbatha moved from her rural hometown - as do so many young adults with no resources in Kenya - to a slum in Nairobi in hopes of finding employment and making a life for herself. She realized that sexual predators wou...
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inkback: November 2011
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Links of interest, thoughts and rants, gonzo reports, yada yada. Awesome Women: Queen Soraya Tarzi. During the three years that Soraya was Queen of Afghanistan, she took bold steps to modernize the position of Mulsim women in general, and Afghan women in particular. Her husband was receptive to the egalitarian philosophy Soraya had received from her liberal, intellectual family (the reason they had been exiled to begin with). Soraya set many "firsts" - the first woman to be the only. Soraya Tarzi lived o...
