Entries Tagged as 'Society'
February 25th, 2009 · by xJane · 6 Comments
not a huge surprise, I suppose… RT @pizzocalabro RT @consumerist: Identifying Yourself As A Lesbian Gets You Banned On XBOX Live : http://tinyurl.com/cc48g8
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February 15th, 2009 · by John · 10 Comments
From xkcd. (shared under a Creative Commons license) When I first migrated to the Mormon Matrix, it seemed to me a flawlessly elegant combination of history, science, and society. I immediately benefited from my conversion, upgrading my interpersonal skills, self-esteem, and sense of life purpose. It didn’t take long for me to start finding flaws [...]
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Tags: Culture Jamming · Peace; conflict resolution. · Pop Culture · Skeptic · Social Hacking · Society
February 12th, 2009 · by xJane · 1 Comment
And watch this vid. An MoF favorite singer and an MoF favorite cause: Regina Spektor and No On H8. Do this before V day and enjoy your partnership on Valentine’s Day guilt-free (and full of hope). Let’s dedicate this Valentine’s Day to love.
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January 22nd, 2009 · by xJane · 1 Comment
This is absolutely priceless. A comic & blog post about Cheney (who, incidentally, “is as ancient as he is evil and he is large amounts of both.”).
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January 22nd, 2009 · by xJane · 6 Comments
It’s Blog for Choice Day and I encourage everyone to visit the blogroll of bloggers taking part and to visit their blogs, if only for this one post. Also, feel free to revisit my posts from ’07 and ’08. This year’s topic is “What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new [...]
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January 21st, 2009 · by xJane · 7 Comments
When I was a kid, we had the story of Rindercella taped to our refrigerator. I loved reading it. I grew up in a family where the dominant form of humor was puns, including Spoonerisms. While I was first discovering teh Intarwebs, I looked for Rindercella, a candidate for being somewhere online if ever there [...]
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Tags: Folklore · Humor · Links · Musings · Personal · Society · Spark · Technology
January 14th, 2009 · by xJane · 5 Comments
Jane Doe is standing up to the social stigma attached to having been raped and the attendant indignities she discovered were involved in attempting to report it. In Japan. Although it is both a different culture and legal system, I don’t think there’s any culture that deals with rape without social stigma or the indignities [...]
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January 3rd, 2009 · by xJane · No Comments
I’m catching up on local news (read: blogs) while my cousin is in town (trying not to be too antisocial by spending all my free time blogging) and enjoyed particularly this most recent post at Daylight Atheism: No Holy Ground, a rational look at the conflict in the so-called “Holy Land” and how it is [...]
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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Christianity · Dialog · Doubt · Getting over Religion · Reason · Religion · Skeptic · Society
December 31st, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments
Like most internet-based phenomena, the answer is probably “yes”. But read the article and decide for yourself (and then read the scared-boys comments and see if that changes your mind…).
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December 30th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments
Two recent news stories impressed upon me the fact that I will always be some kind of Catholic. Even if it’s ex-Catholic. My first step in rejecting religion was exploring my own. This started as what I later knew to be feminist critique of Catholicism. The more I learned, the more it seemed clear to [...]
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