Seen at parlance's link round up:

Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells all of their worldly possessions
Filed by: Kate Kendell
April 17, 2010 4:00 PM
Updated at the end of the post

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Seen at tuluumhttp://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/personal-essays/the-spoon-theory-written-by-christine-miserandinoRead more... )

Mentally ill Holocaust survivors' suffering lingers on 65 years later
RON HELLER Associated Press Writer

6:50 a.m. CDT, April 11, 2010

PARDES HANNA, Israel (AP) - Some patients refuse to shower because it reminds them of the gas chambers. Others hoard meat in pillow cases because they fear going hungry ( Read more... )

Did a Racist Coup in a Northern Louisiana Town Overthrow its Black Mayor and Police Chief?Wed, 03/31/2010 - 02:25 - Jordan Flaherty ( Read more... )

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http://www.myearthhour.org <--- US site

Anyone else doing it? Does it really matter or help? I'm gonna be in bed anyway.

Face of the tea party is female
By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 3/26/10 6:29 PM EDT

When the tea party movement burst onto the scene last year to oppose President Barack Obama, the Democratic Congress, and the health care legislation they wanted to enact, some liberal critics were quick to label its activists as angry white men ( Read more... )

Maya Angelou was at St. Sabina Catholic Church this week.

"It's come to me to say to each of you, that each of us, we have the possibility of changing somebody. Remember it. Stop it. Don't pretend that you've always been free. We have a responsibility to those who went before us, and those yet to come. If you really know who you are, that you've ( Read more... )

As I watch the rising tide of racial anxiety and secessionist sentiment I am not so much reminded of the Bloody Sunday protests as I am reminded of D.W. Griffith's Birth of Nation. This 1915 film depicts the racist imagination currently at work in our nation as a black president first appoints a Latina Supreme Court Justice and then works with a ( Read more... )