I’ve been following the Daniel Hauser situation, with a lot of conflicting thoughts in my mind. When is it appropriate to legally intervene when someone’s beliefs conflict with ours?
Here’s the overview (read here for more info):
Daniel Hauser is a thirteen year old boy from Minnesota with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He had one round of chemotherapy and [...]
For some Wednesday Happiness, check out these cute little robots.
For this art project, Kacie Kinzer wondered whether a human-like robot could exist on the streets with us and what would happen along the way.
She was pleasantly surprised at the results.
She reports: “Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful [...]
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Realizing Racism“Do you know your daughter’s fucking a nigger?”
“We’re going to rape you ’cause you’ve been giving to the nigger what belongs to us.”
When I think about race from my childhood, these are the two phrases that repeat loudly in my head. I was white, [...]
Picture teenagers as young as 13 years old, screaming “Put your hands up!” and “Separate your feet!” while carrying airsoft guns and practicing such scenarios as chasing illegal border crossers, taking down terrorists, facing campus mass-murderers, or raiding a marijuana field.
According to the recent NYT article Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More by Jennifer [...]
I’ve been using threaded comments on Right to Bleed. I started blogging at Live Journal, so I was used to threaded comments, and the newest version of WordPress supports threading. I haven’t been liking the way threading interacts with my theme, though. Also, the farther away from LJ I get, the less I’m attached to [...]
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Realizing RacismQuite without my conscious permission it turns out that I am racist towards black people. This is really bothersome for me to learn. Now that I’ve learned it, though, I want to give it a lot of thought. I want to do some backtracking [...]
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you #twitterfail and #fixreplies - Yesterday Twitter announced that you will no longer see replies to people you don’t follow. This used to be an option: you could see all replies, no replies, or only replies to peple you follow. Now, Twitter has removed that third option. [...]
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Realizing RacismI have heard the term white privilege over and over throughout my life, but I never gave it much attention. I believed that I probably had things a little easier since I’m white, but that what mostly mattered was my choices as an individual. [...]
Over at The Daily Harold, I commented on his abortion post, and you could tell from my comments that I’m female. Harold emailed me for clarification, since from reading my About page, he had assumed that I was a gay male. When I asked why he would think that, he replied that it’s because I [...]
Some links for your Sunday reading:
I wrote earlier this week about mass messages of fear. Here’s a story about how fear affects how we raise our children. Check out the whole blog for lots of good tidbits about raising kids without fear.
Another person dead who shouldn’t be - at the hands of a cop. (Via)
Schick [...]
