Parents and Doctors Create Monsters Out of Autistics

i am calling for the immediate public shaming of, and lawsuits for abuse, against Ann Bauer, the mother of Andrew Bauer, a person who started life as autistic and has since been destroyed and changed into a violent...

Is Ignorance Really Bliss?

As a student of Simon Fraser University active in both Burnaby and Surrey campus, an inherent need for using the Translink system is required to get to each location. All these transiting experiences have brought...

Meghan McCain Admits Ignorance of Economics, Slams Stimulus

On Fox & Friends, John McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain railed against President Obama for signing the omnibus spending bill. “I think it’s so disappointing and it’s scary,” McCain said, referencing...

After More Balanced Coverage, What Next?

"Tuesday, November 25, 2008 by Mosharraf Zaidi As the world’s attention turns increasingly to Pakistan and its role in tackling the threat of globalised terrorism, the country’s perception abroad is evolving. More than seven years after 9/11, a more nuanced approach to...

An Indian in every Pakistani?

"Shireen M Mazari The writer is a defence analystLack of formal education and sheer ignorance does not by definition imply an innate sense of stupidity. On the other hand, formal education in itself is no guarantee of an intelligent and rational human...

New UK law to criminalise men who pay for sex with trafficked women

The UK government has unveiled new laws for cracking down on men who pay for sex. The new laws will apply specifically to trafficked women, or women who are being controlled and pay money to a pimp."New prostitution laws to be set out today will mean a plea of ignorance is no...

Weird but true tales of animal behavior

"The view from atop the food chain is quite pleasant, thank you very much, but lest we get too smug, consider:"

The Show in Beijing

Here is a dissident opinion (not mine..) on the opening show of the Beijing Olympiad "The fireworks and show at the Olympic stadium in Beijing Friday made it clear that the opening ceremony was a...

Asperger Families Who Believe in Punishment for Correction

i remember having my mouth forcibly "washed out with a soap bar" by my mother. i mean FORCIBLY. In the crevices of my teeth, lips bleeding. No memory of anything else. Just that.i remember having my bottom whipped by my mother with a leather belt for touching (TOUCHING, not...

Bush Gropes, Planet Cringes / Knead a German chancellor, banter dumbly, revea...

George W Bush is completely unaware that he is both laughed at by world leaders and scorned by people all over the planet . Molly Ivins wrote that ...

Barack Obama and History: Black Soldier Joins Our Nationalist Revolutionaries...

Anti-Obama email messages have recently made its rounds across the Filipino-American netizen community.  But little do many know the historical connection of Filipinos and Black-Americans, proving these broadsides give injustice to a bond that is...

Globalisation: sleepwalking to disaster

"Globalisation: sleepwalking to disaster Ann Pettifor The scale of global debt reflects a broken financial and commercial system that is doing immense damage to the planet and to public life, says Ann Pettifor. 11 - 12 - 2007 On 9 August 2007, globalisation's rickety...

How Smart are Americans?

An article in the NY Post got me to thinking about some other poll results my brother was talking to me about a while back. Unfortunately any conclusions I made from this story from the Post and what my brother...

Professional Ignorance - Doctors Refuse Belief in AS

In my travels around the so-called professional world, i have encountered a staggering amount of ignorance. Most shocking is how much of it is willful. Like the classic cliche of the ostrich sticking its head in the sand to hide from what it does not want to deal with, there...

In Brazil, Rich or Poor, We’re All Prisoners

 "An old adage stated, “Brazilian, profession hope.” Today, it would be more correct to say, “Brazilian, profession prisoner.” Prisoner of transit, in cars that are ambulatory cells in slow march,...

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