Month: May 2005

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Cross-posted at DailyKos. An NGO, the Niger Committee on Deadly Traditional Practices (aka Coniprat) has retrained about 40 circumcisors in Niger since it began in 1992: “It’s not easy to give up a profession passed down...

The adopted daughter series began, most of you will remember, as a response to and in co-ordination with Poor Statue’s diary about being a birth-mother.  It is a wonderful diary, and if you haven’t read it, I...

Okay, so Lakoff you know: Don’t Think of An Elephant, the Rockridge Institute, framing? And you know me: pastor, sicko, frequent poster here. The question is, what do these two things have in common? Well yes,...

“Can you represent [my organization] in this conference Monday morning?” my colleague requests. “All of senior management is tied up!”.  I glance at the invitation in her hand and – already...