can you believe that there is no way to take a train from Vancouver to Mexico City?
North America is fucked up.

UN report says climate change man-made

I'm into the title of this article. Though I normally hate when people use the term 'man-made' because it is so sexist, at least this time we can blame global warming on men and not women. Thanks United Nations.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6315819.stmThis is a story by the BBC about Chavez's recent grant of power to socialise Venezuela ( Read more... )

Everyone's back on the environment bandwagon these days. Gotta do your part ( Read more... )

"Across Canada, the most common homicide committed in 1989 (alomost 1/3 of all murders) involved a woman murdered by her spouse"
Violent Substance Abusers in Domestic Violent Treatment, by T. Brown, A. Werk, T. Caplan & P. Seraganian.

Statisics remained unchanged up until the late 90s. 2000-2006 info not yet compiled.

What with all the hooplah surrounding Shortbus, I decided to revisit Hedwig. I was shocked to discover how many people around me had never seen it (where the fuck have you all been ?) I rented it last night and, as always, it made me sob. Few movies make me so emotional. And goddamn that man is skinny ( Read more... )

Well that's what you get if you work for Fox.

This is fascinating. Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, a health minster in South Africa, and representative at the International AIDS conference, is insisting that nutrition is a viable alternative to ARVs in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. I'm shocked that she was shunned (her booth was "trashed") and that more people aren't willing to consider this ( Read more... )

doesn't anyone care that we're at war? does this mean anything anymore? it hurts me so bad, so deeply that fat white men who claim to represent me, represent me, have agreed to be in this fucking war. People who live down the street are dying now, dying from guns and axes and loneliness ( Read more... )

What makes a terrorist ( Read more... )