John Donne - For woman who will go to bed

John Donne - For woman who will go to bed

Texas Police Shock White Woman, 72, Making Nightly News in Brazil

Cross-posted at the Police Brutality Blog and the Electrocuted While Black blog in the afrosphere.I live in Brazil and I just saw a scene on the nightly news here, from the US state of Texas (click here for video), that disgusts me, and will shock and astound Brazilians...

A Latina on Supreme Court IS Better than 77% White Male Court

Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog.Judge Sonia Sotomayor is right.  WIth a US Supreme Court that is 77% white male in a country less than 30% white male, Sotomayor's experience as a Latina woman is much more needed and "better" on the Court than that of yet...

The Secret of Melissa Joan Hart’s Weight Loss: Beach Body Diet

Valerie Bertinelli's amazing weight loss and bikini pics blew everyone out of the water earlier this year. Maybe Melissa Joan Hart was paying attention to Val, because she has lost 42 pounds and has her own bikini...

Muslim woman appointed as Obama's advisor

USA, the land of opportunities, keeps on proving the great values which form basis of it's greatness. It's true that United States of America isn't great in all respects, only Guantanamo Bay is enough to validate...

Mary Cassat art work inspires Google

Google celebrates the birthday of American Impressionist painter Mary Cassat today, with a Google Doodle logo on their homepage. Mary Cassat was born May 22, 1844 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and died June 14...

Woman stabbed to death in West Van park

Some more disturbing news concerning a suspicious death in the Vancouver area. "A woman has died after being stabbed in the chest in West Vancouver's Lighthouse Park. Police said at a briefing Tuesday morning that...

Beach Body Diet, Danica Patrick’s Shape Magazine Interview

"It’s obvious from Danica Patrick’s Shape magazine cover that the NASCAR star knows how to build a beach body. Fortunately, she’s willing to share her secrets. The Indy Racing League driver sat down with the...

Kirstie Alley’s New Diet Plan, After Gaining 83 Pounds

" When Kirstie Alley stepped on the scale for the first time in 15 months, it wasn’t pretty. “I started screaming,” recalls Alley, sipping homemade fruit-infused water in her Hollywood kitchen. “It said 228...

Seijun Shiki Day ( 成人式) in Japan.

By, Uwe Paschen. Today is a very important day here in Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon, officially 日本国  Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku) for most Families since most have some one in their family that will celebrate...

Carol Ann Duffy is named first female Poet Laureate

As Andrew Motion comes to the end of his term as Poet Laureate it appears hotly tipped Manchester based Carol Anne Duffy will step into his shoes. " Carol Ann Duffy is to be named as the new Poet Laureate, the first woman to be appointed in the 341-year history of the post. ...

A Portrait of Human Trafficking

" There are countless heart-wrenching stories of human trafficking around the world, most of which are untold. In 2005, Unicef decided to take a creative approach to the problem in Indonesia and commissioned...

LIC subway rape victim files suit against MTA

A Queens judge has thrown out a suit against the MTA and two of its employees filed by a woman who was raped on the platform of the G train's 21st Street stop and accused onlooking transit workers of not doing...

Egyptian woman dies of H5N1 bird flu

A woman in Egypt has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus, just one day after a six-year-old boy died of the disease. The twenty-five year old woman was the 25th person to die of the disease in Egypt. She died in a Cairo hospital of respiratory failure. Another four-year-old boy...

Florida woman fakes a miscarriage with animal tissue

A woman in Florida faked a miscarriage with 'animal tissue', which was discovered when emergency services responded to her call just before 8am this morning. They arrived and then learned that she had faked the miscarriage, but it not known at this point why she did...

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