Danish activists for the disabled are staunchly defending a government campaign that pays sex workers to provide sex once a month for disabled people.
Opposition parties call the program, officially known as ”Sex, irrespective of disability,” immoral.
”We spend a large proportion of our taxes rescuing women from prostitution. But at the same time we officially encourage [...]
Posted on September 21st, 2005 by pwyll
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And for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars’ south pole have shrunk from the previous year’s size, suggesting a climate change in progress.
Mars Global Surveyer, mars.jpl.nasa.gov
This is Bush’s fault for not ratifying the Kyoto protocols.
Posted on September 21st, 2005 by pwyll
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The Opera internet browser is now free (as in beer, not speech). Opera has long been available for $$ or in an adware version. The free version is does away with the ads. Opera is a very capable, standards compliant, cross platform browser. Get it here.
Posted on September 21st, 2005 by pwyll
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It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
The primary method of shaping the news is by omission. The inconvenient [...]
Posted on September 20th, 2005 by pwyll
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THE DREAD PIRATE BIN LADEN
How thinking of terrorists as pirates can help win the war on terror.
By Douglas R. Burgess Jr.
INTERNATIONAL LAW LACKS A DEFINITION FOR TERRORISM as a crime. According to Secretary General Kofi Annan, this lack has hampered “the moral authority of the United Nations and its strength in condemning” the scourge.
But attempts [...]
Posted on September 20th, 2005 by pwyll
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Sometimes it becomes necessary to state the obvious: being a soldier is a dangerous thing. This is why we honor our service members’ courage. For a soldier, sailor or Marine, “courage” isn’t an easily-abused abstraction–”it took a lot of courage to vote against the farm bill”–it’s a requirement of the job.
Even in peacetime. The media’s [...]
Posted on September 20th, 2005 by pwyll
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