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And Yet Again I Ask: What The Fuck Is Wrong With People?

by Cara July 12, 2008

TRIGGER WARNING Lauredhel sent me this horrific story from her own local newspaper.

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The Cost of Unwed Parenting?

by Cara April 16, 2008

Some conservative wingnut groups funded a study on divorced and out-of-wedlock parenting, and results claim that it costs U.S. taxpayers $112 billion each year. There have been previous attempts to calculate the cost of divorce in America. But the sponsors of the new study, being released Tuesday, said theirs is the first to gauge the [...]

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What is this “rape” of which you speak?

by Cara March 14, 2008

This morning, I was reading the latest (March 17) issue of Time magazine. It contains an article on the Darfur conflict, and how the lines between “good” guys and “bad” guys are blurring. Of course, there are extended descriptions of the violence and of the impact of that violence. But somehow, the issue of rape [...]

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