Mothers of Stillborn Babies Charged with Murder

29 June, 2011 in abuse, America, children, civil liberty, cocaine, drugs, equality, family values, feminism, freedom, george w bush, government, health, human rights, parenting, prison, U.S., women
Tags: America, economics, feminism, healthcare, justice, miscarriage, mothers, murder, news, poverty, pregnancy, stillbirth, women

To paraphrase George Dubya: misogynists never stop thinking of ways to harm women, and neither does America. The latest joyous news from the motherland (a term I use advisedly) is that troubled women are being prosecuted for murder after suffering miscarriages or still-births. This is more than insane. It’s baffling. Despite the pro-life palaver America [...]

Quote of the Day – Henry David Thoreau

3 June, 2011 in freedom, values, work, writers
Tags: books, choices, Henry David Thoreau, literature, philosophy, quotes, Transcendentalism, truth, Walden

I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me; — not hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less, — not suppose a case, but take the case that is; to travel the only path I can, and that on which no power [...]