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 [...]

I’m a flaming liberal. If I were any more of a flaming liberal, I would actually be on fire. So, big surprise, I read a lot of liberally-bent blogs. I read a lot about feminism, racism, why rebublicans suck, atheism, and sex. I should know better. Anytime one of my regular blogs has a title [...]

Every time I read about new abortion legislation, I get a little twitchy. A list of states considering ultrasound-related abortion legistlation came across my desktop. It’s from over a month ago, and I don’t know if these bills passed. I am angry that politicians want to add restrictions and exceptions and details to how/when/why women [...]

The day after I posted about sexting, I happened to flip by the Tyra Banks Show on television, and that was the topic of the show, so of course, I had to sit down and watch. On this show, they were referring to sexting as sending sexy messages through text message, not sending sexy images. [...]

I recently ran across an article from the Washington Post on female circumcision amongst Kurds in Iraq. Female circumcision is also called female genital mutilation (FGM) and female genital cutting (FGC) and is categorized by the details of different practices into Type I, II, III, and IV.
I know what I’m “supposed” to feel when I [...]