This is a must read for anyone interested in history, international politics or human rights, and I would venture to recommend it, even to those with no interest in these subjects.
human rights
Refugee Bigotry
I came across a post on Facebook tonight and it really pissed me off. The post itself annoyed me, but the comments (all in support, of course) really made me cross! I was even more pissed off by the fact… Read More ›
No More Nurture’s Nook
Those of you who follow my tumblr blog, Nurture’s Nook, may have noticed it’s sudden disappearance. It has come to my attention that tumblr now refuses to allow LGBT blogs to appear in search results. As I cannot support any… Read More ›
Scandal
It’s a depressing measure of the scale of the sex abuse scandal engulfing the Catholic Church that news of a priest preying on a child is no longer shocking. —Madison Magazine p53 Related articles Aussie Paper: Pope Quit Over Sex… Read More ›
Once a Rapist, Always a Rapist?
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a bit of rehabilitation and that’s the end of the matter. Your debt to society has been paid. You can live out the rest of your life in peace. Right?… Read More ›
Education
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. — United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, quoted in The Unschooling Unmanual
Rafferty's Rules is Closing Down 