for the past couple of months i have been following the developments in the nebraska safe haven law which went into effect last february making it possible for parents to give up their children to the state. they can do this if they believed that they could not adequately care for them. a law of good intentions had unintended results. nebraska did not specify an age limit for the children who cou...
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continuing with asking for your help in fixing my blogroll every couple of days or so i will post here a list of blogs that start with a particular letter and you add in the comments if you know of something that is missing from that list. today brought to you by letter a. this is what is on the blogroll right now. check housekeeeping posts for other a blogs i have discovered in......
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theres a great piece by james vlahos on the growth of psychiatric medicines for pets here . the piece focuses on how pet owners empathy leads them to anthropomorphize their dogs and cats. having worried about undue anthropomorphism earlier i found the pieces sensitive analysis of the many possible sources of bad pet behavior very helpful. and these two insights are pa......
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new orleans workers center for racial justice statement of indian workers congress at launch of hunger strike may 14 2008a we represent over 550 indian guestworkers who were trafficked to the united states gulf coast in late 2006. eighteen months after we first started organizing for our dignity we have reached our last resort the hunger strike we are launching today. we want ......
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accidental blogger added an interesting post today on art people beer and matt heres a small reading recently matt went to an art show. he saw art and he met people. read the full post here......
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plime.com popular links added an interesting post on thats why they call it fiction andrew heres a small excerpt the illustrious exnew republic man of letters and current harvard professor for the practice of literary criticism james wood has weighed in in the new yorker on richard prices lush life. the short of it is that he quite liked view the re......
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