Month: May 2005

Cross-posted at DailyKos. From Democracy Now!, about the passing of Kenneth B. Clark: In 1950 the psychologist published an influential report detailing the destructive effect of school segregation. The paper would go on to...

In the past weeks, I have posted twice on pie-ings and responses to them (here and here).  One comment, by BooMan, puzzled me for a bit.  BooMan said that, for him, pie-ing is OK, but he draws the line at shoes....

I can’t find any word on the fate of the 21-year-old Yemeni woman, and mother of a 2-year-old (from a prison rape) scheduled to be executed by firing squad today for supposedly killing her husband when she was 14 —...

[Crossposted at Daily Kos] I started this series to highlight the week’s science diaries. Many political issues will require input from the scientific community to make sound policy decisions. Some criteria for the diaries...

I do not have much time for posting and later on reading the comments. But this should not be ignored or lost. I would like to display this picture, but don’t know how, so here the link to the picture. Update [2005-5-2...