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Social institutions contribute to homosexual youth suicide

"Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit." Erik Erikson Social...

warning: you may be dangerous to the person sitting next to you

You never considered that, did you? You don't live in your own private world. Your actions affect others. You may think that "being anti-social" means a person is unwilling to socialize... You're wrong, if so. If...

Coplay, PA: Land of Intolerant, Archaic, Toxic Madness

This is a very reactionary "opinion" piece about Coplay PA, where i've been abused for over four years. i feel it is important for others to know that this is an UNSAFE and TOXIC community for those with Autism/Asperger's Syndrome. It also includes references to abusive...

PETA To Target Vancouver Olympics to end seal slaughter

PETA plans to launch a year long relentless campaign leading up to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver to help bring the world attention back to the annual seal slaughter that takes place in Canada every year. The...

Is ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ India’s Shame?

This is a great movie and deserves all the attention it is getting. You see, the Indian government is spending millions of U.S. dollars – remember the ‘Incredible India’ campaign on CNN? – to hide exactly what this film reveals. The British director and the Indian...

GUTTED by flickr

What happens when a social networking community based on photography and art is run by anti-social people? They self destruct, driving away the real artists expressing themselves, and encouraging lowest common...

World - 100 countries sign cluster bomb ban; US, Russia, China refuse

" OSLO, NORWAY: Nations began signing a treaty banning cluster bombs on Wednesday in a move that supporters hope will shame the US, Russia and China and other non-signers into abandoning weapons blamed for maiming and killing civilians. Norway, which began the drive to...

Happy "National Shame Day II" 2008 [UPDATED]

(Originally Written for Tuesday, November 25, 2008)Definitely Opinion(ated) As it was in 2007 for Jace, being too worn out to rant, so too it is for me, Intransitivus (who said she quit) this year in 2008....

The worst pick-up lines... that ever worked!

"“This poker party I was at started to get very crowded. As a group of girls walked in, this guy came up behind me and said, ‘I think you’re going to be asked to leave soon. You’re so pretty, you’re...

China to name and shame lip-synching performers

Remember the outrage during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics when that little girl was lip-synching in place of the real singer who was not cute enough to be representing the Chinese. Well, in a...

Blackberry picking is a dying art

One of the problems for environmentalists is getting kids at an early age to engage with nature. Many city children know very little about nature or plants as was revealed earlier in the year when a survey of...

The UK's biggest CO2 offenders unveiled

The UK's biggest CO2 offenders have been revealed, and most of them are public buildings and tourist attractions.The Palace of Westminster and the Bank of England are among the worst. A new law to measure...

Philippines: Priest Governor wants kicked out of Presidents hometown

"That most of the local officials of Pampanga province, especially the mayors and board members, are suddenly beside themselves with their non-negotiable demand for credible and clean leadership is not at all...

Shame of binge drink Britons abroad as number arrested on holiday soars 15%

A shocking Foreign Office report reveals a huge rise in the number of arrests of Britons overseas. There were 4.603 arrests of Britons at 15 holiday destinations last year. Many arrests are due to behaviour caused...

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