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    • Martina Navratilova: Jason Collins' Coming Out 'Will Save Lives' 29 April 2013
      Tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who helped pave the way for Jason Collins' coming out with her own years ago, praised Jason Collins in a Sports Illustrated column today. She says, humbly, that although she had less support and lost endorsements it was easier in a way: When I came out, in 1981, I didn't have much public support and I know I lost […]
    • The Boy Scouts Made It Worse 25 April 2013
      By ARI EZRA WALDMAN The headline, "Boy Scouts Move to Allow Gay Members," read with such promise. Including gays in the Boy Scouts has been a goal of our community for decades, most notably since James Dale challenged the Scouts' discriminatory policies in the 1990s. A sharply divided Supreme Court rejected Mr. Dale's challenge, but more […]
    • Op-Ed Contributor: Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists 24 April 2013
      Taking women’s names off the list of American novelists makes it harder and slower for women to gain equality in the literary world.
    • North Sea Texas (2011) rating: 9/10 15 April 2013
      This movie has nothing to do with America and Texas. The author and director are Belgian. The movie is set in a Flemish seaside town. A quiet young gay boy with a neglectful single mom finds refuge with a neighbor and her children. Yes, it is a coming of age tale, full of innocent love and love lost. The boy protagonist is nearly silent which makes anything […]
    • Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) rating: 7/10 17 April 2013
      A professional woman with greater education and a better career can't stay married to a man with no job and no ambition. But darn it, she gets along so well with the guy that they are still best friends. Seems implausible, but the movie spins it into comedy and interesting choices for the woman.Elijah Wood plays the girl's gay sidekick (actually bo […]
    • China Mourns the Death of a Student in Boston Blast 17 April 2013
      The graduate student who was killed was one of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese who have come to America to be educated at its universities.    
    • The End of Google Reader Sends Internet Into an Uproar - NYTimes.com 15 March 2013
      Shared by albee Change.org petition After Google announced that it will be shutting down Google Reader on July 1, unhappy customers turned to the Internet to protest the closing. Read more…
    • Powering Down Google Reader 13 March 2013
      Posted by Alan Green, Software Engineer We have just announced on the Official Google Blog that we will soon retire Google Reader (the actual date is July 1, 2013). We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go. We’re sad too. There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring […]
    • Google Reader Being Retired 14 March 2013
      Edgewood_Dirk writes "According to the official blog, Google Reader is being retired on July 1st, 2013. The main reasoning seems to be its decline in usage over the last few years. Users and developers will be able to retrieve their RSS data using Google Takeout." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
    • Op-Ed Columnist: The Market Speaks 8 March 2013
      Yes, the Dow Jones industrial average has been setting new records this week, but the message from the markets is actually not a happy one.

Archive for May, 2006

Humans and Chimps — mixed 2 times

Posted by bert5 on 18 May 2006

Evolution does bring some interesting realities. Humans really are just one species of animal. NYTimes article

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80 Million Americans Smoke or Eat too much

Posted by bert5 on 11 May 2006


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/business/21soff.html

Maybe they should have published this earlier…

A story at Yahoo! News says 80 million Americans smoke or are obese. That’s a hell of a lot of people. Nearly 40% of the adult population.

Slightly related story: Genetic markers for increased risk of heart attacks found in study.

– updated 5/22

Many Americans do not receive basic care which would prolong their lives.

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Trackback for BBM review

Posted by bert5 on 8 May 2006

Read my review of Brokeback Mountain here.

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“NewsMax” isn’t news

Posted by bert5 on 1 May 2006

I subscribed to a magazine since it was free, but not really knowing what it was. About 90% of free magazines are actually pretty good. Even Maxim, FHM with their scantily clad women has some interesting stuff in it for me, like movie reviews and stupid, but entertaining, guy stuff. But this magazine is really right-wing propaganda in disguise. They throw in a few AP articles to make it appear to be news. But 80% of it is conservative opinion pieces. All the pictures (the writers or the topics of articles) are of fat white guys or severe looking white women. Despite my liking to hear the other side of the argument, after reading a few and running into a Dr. Laura byline, I had to throw the thing in recycling. They throw the word ‘liberal’ around like a swear word. And there is the usual fear mongering and premature claims of success in Iraq. I guess I’ll keep the free subscription in the hopes it will prevent other innocents from reading it and getting depressed about how reactionary and revisionist and stupid the rest of America has become.

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