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Diana Baker, Administrator at BRCA - Christian school: ‘atheist controversy’ over creationist quiz may keep academy open -
Lash, backlash, counter-backlash.
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Diana Baker, Administrator at BRCA - Christian school: ‘atheist controversy’ over creationist quiz may keep academy open -
Lash, backlash, counter-backlash.
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Google Glass Is Watching—Now What? - WSJ.com
Sad that this potentially democratizing technology will be suppressed because people are embarrassed to be seen by their friends, while in the meantime being surveilled by the government and private corporations.
Arise then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
‘We will not have questions decided by irrelevant agencies.
‘Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage for caresses and applause.
‘Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience.
‘We women of one country will be too tender to those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
‘From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own, it says “Disarm! Disarm!”
‘The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.
‘Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.’
As men have forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after his time the sacred impress not of Caesar, but of God.
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.
"— Original Mothers Day Proclamation,
Julia Ward Howe: 1870
Original Mothers Day : Chestnut Hill Meeting
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
(Source: New York Magazine)
(*) …for which English has no *single* words. Obviously the author uses English words to describe them. And since English is nearly larcenous in its capacity to borrow (schadenfreude! ennui!) any of these fun foreign roots and agglutinates are potential undocumented immigrants just waiting for their green card.
Also the Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax is not a misnomer. It’s a fallacy. Is it a rule that in any article on language you must make at least one linguistics error?
Cleveland Missing teens Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus Michelle Knight found alive (by brainfreezeme3)
— Alex Chaffee, interviewed in June 2003 by Jenny Cool
— Fox News Freaks Out Over Obama’s Plan B Decision: Teen Sex Is ‘Criminal Behavior’ | ThinkProgress
— Tim Minchin, via The Red Flags of Quackery v2 | Sci-ence