Month: June 2005

Ask Your Rep. To End Horse Slaughter

Today’s the day. Ask your Rep. to vote YES on the Sweeney-Spratt Agriculture amendment to end horse slaughter. HSUS’s page has all the info you need to call (with script) and send e-mails (with text) to your rep....

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Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 30

image:  The brother of Moussa Saloom, the deputy head of the education college at Baghdad’s Al-Mustansiriya University, grieves over his coffin at his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, May 26, 2005. (AP Photo/Hadi...

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Scientists Have Created Gay Fruit Flies

This news lends itself to all sorts of jokes. Scientists made fruit flies gay by activating a single gene. Females with an activated “male” gene reject males and court females, while “males with a damaged...

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The U.S. Economy and Class Structure

Via NBC First Read, “[t]wo political subjects that haven’t received the attention they probably deserve surfaced late last week, and surface again today: the economy and class: On Friday, the Labor Department...

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