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Cherokee People! Cherokee Tribe! So Proud to Live! So Glad We're White!

A fascinating story about Indian history, alleged racism, too much money, and science. Link [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.09/seminoles_pr.html]. Excerpts: > The Cherokee kept black slaves until 1866, when an emancipation treaty freed them from bondage and granted them full tribal citizenship. Known as

Gang Banger Prey

Following yesterday's criminal attack on two gays involved in illicit activity in a NY public park: > "Any place that gay people congregate is a hotbed for attacks," said Basil Lucas, spokesman for the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. "People assume that these men

You Gay Too

You tar them as homosexuals, in hopes that they'll stop condemning homosexual acts. Isn't that kind of like labelling a Prohibitionist a drunkard in hopes that he'll stop preaching teetotalling? Of course, the former is far more humiliating, hence the strategy, I'm

U.S. Will Give Up Control of Internet?

According to The Guardian, we'll have to: > A number of countries represented in Geneva, including Brazil, China, Cuba, Iran and several African states, insisted the US give up control, but it refused. The meeting "was going nowhere", Hendon says, and so the EU took a

Relativism = Every Nut Deserves Respec. Episode 231,311

> A man who is fighting to get the words "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance was back in federal court Wednesday, making some surprising comments about the case. > Although the hearing was a procedural matter with no key rulings, Michael Newdow said that if

Wait Till the ACLU Hears

ACLU: "We hope President Bush doesn't plan to infringe freedoms in the name of public health. If we let a pandemic flu destroy civil liberties, the flu has beaten the United States." > President George W. Bush said Tuesday that he was working to prepare the

A Katrina Wrap Up?

I think most of us have had enough of Katrina, but we shouldn't. There are lessons to be learned, and not about levee management. It's about people, sapping their spirit, creating an underclass that has been deprived of a basic moral upbringing. Kara Hopkins tells the

A Second Conservation Message?

The Bush administration is asking Americans to conserve gas. This is twice now. Wow. > With U.S. heating bills expected to hit record highs this winter, the Bush administration on Monday launched a conservation campaign featuring a cartoon mascot "Energy Hog" . . . > Energy Secretary Sam Bodman and

No Back-Alley Abortions

Interesting piece at NYT this morning [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/weekinreview/02leland.html] about a new pill that would make back-alley abortions highly unlikely, if Roe were to be reversed and states started outlawing abortions again. This is good information to have when a pro-choicer

Acceptable Racism?

> A doctor has offered to perform free abortions on hurricane evacuees, saying it may be too dangerous for them to wait until they return home. Link [http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9514379/].