Archive for 'human rights'
A food desert?
I was ready to blow up when I saw the following headline on the O this morning: Portland’s low-income neighborhoods are city’s ‘food deserts.’ Given the excessive number of wealthy foodies who restaurant hop on Hawthorne and fight for parking spaces at New Seasons, I guessed it was going to propose that the poor needed [...]
Posted: November 15th, 2008 under Food, NaBloPoMo, human rights.
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If I were Bill Sizemore…
Ok, scratch that one–it’s absurd. But, if I were a ballot initiative activist, here are some measures I’d try to get on the ballot. Big disclaimer: the only reason I’d try for a ballot initiative would be that at a national and state level, politicians seem to have little interest in fixing some really big [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under NaBloPoMo, human rights, living, politics.
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Another example of hetero as biologically non-universal
I love this stuff! Not just because I love Julia Whitty and would raise albatross babies with her if I could, but also because this is heterosexist-myth-busting goodness. From one of her May 29 entries on The Blue Marble:
Laysan albatrosses in Hawaii employ a strategy called reciprocity, whereby unrelated females pair together and take turns [...]
Posted: May 30th, 2008 under human rights, sexual rights.
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