Delegates in South Africa's ruling African National Congress met in closed session today ahead of a delayed vote in the party's most bitter leadership election since it came to power.http://www.guardian.co.uk/southafrica/story/0,,2228895,00.htmlRead more... )

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US woman who said she was raped by US contractors in Iraq testified in Congress on Wednesday, telling legislators that she was kept under armed guard in her trailer after reporting the incident ( Read more... )

Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US ( Read more... )

http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsex_11_07.html

The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Awards were inaugurated in 1993. The purpose, as originally set out, was to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual ( Read more... )

This is really apropos of nothing in particular (it's more like a combination of a lot of things), but recently I've been especially infuriated about the police, and the justifications normies give for their behaviour. Seriously, fuck pigs.

http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml?page=2

The Nike Air Native N7 is the result of nearly two years of collaborative research, development and fit testing in partnership with the Native American community. The first-of-its-kind performance shoe is built on a new ( Read more... )

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN (NBC) -- When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended ( Read more... )

I'm reading 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis De Sade for a class, and it's uncannily like reading awful erotic fan fiction.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/10/03/MN0PSIM67.DTL

Fifty years ago today, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's Beat-era poem "Howl" was not obscene. Yet today, a New York public ( Read more... )

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BALTIMORE - Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive - the blind ( Read more... )