Timothy Kurek is a young man from Nashville. He grew up in a very religious Christian fundamentalist type home. A home where gays were despised or demonized. He decided to spend a year, being gay. He didn't become gay as did a young man in England who had a stroke did. He...
I am going to post this column by Blair Scott of American Atheists, in its' entire length, because while I should be amazed that an atheist teen who dares to stand up to theocracy in America, gets death threats, I really am not. Atheists commonly get...
By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" "There are two maxims for historians which so harmonise with what I know of history that I would like to claim them as my own, though they really belong to nineteenth-century historiography: first, that...
created by samvaknin | 2 years ago | updated 1 year ago 138 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Stubborn. Proud. Independent. Certainly fair modifiers to describe a nation like the United States of America. Why should we be anything else? We have a history of firsts. We should not let that change or be overlooked. We have a rich...
opinion by Grace H | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 303 views | 8 recommendations | 6 comments
Indian government is finding it tough to tackle SMS menace in Northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. Security threat forced the Govt to bann the operation of SMS service effective from midnight. "The government today banned short message service (SMS) for post-paid subscribers...
created by Amitjha | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 473 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
MANCHESTER—Churches of Scientology around the world marked the International Day of Tolerance commemorating the founding of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) this week...
created by Sam_Butler | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 359 views | 3 recommendations | 10 comments
Dr. Abdul Sattar Edhi, a Pakistan-based philanthropist, has recently won top UN award for his contributions promoting tolerance and non-violence. "Abdul Sattar Edhi of Pakistan and a Belgian human rights defender...
Some reactions in Miami to the Colombian singer Juanes publicized concert in Havana, next September, seem to revive the era of the most accentuated MacCarthysm. As if we were in the late...
opinion by JAMP | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 402 views | 25 recommendations | 5 comments
Two male penguins named Harry and Pepper have been together for six years, acting in all ways as a nesting couple. When a penguin male/female couple would not care for their egg Pepper and Harry were allowed to...
The topic of this debate revolves around tolerance and intolerance of moral, ethical, legal and political trespasses by elected officials. In this story, I may sometimes refer to these collectively as "ethos*...
An openly gay high school senior won the title of prom queen at a Los Angeles high school. Sergio Garcia, the newly crowned senior, beat out eight girls for the title. " "Prom queen suited my personality the...
created by Blaine Metzgar | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1110 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Hisham Melhem Al-Arabiya bureau chief in Washington DC office conducted this exclusive interview 26 January 2009 with president Barack Obama.It is his first interview since taking office as president.
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Nepali police often ignore many incidents of injustice and oppression against the Dalit community stigmatized as ‘untouchables’. After King Mahendra legally banned the social practice of caste...
opinion by mnepali | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 288 views | 34 recommendations | 5 comments
Yeesh. What a burden to place on your child. "The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child's full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little...
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