On religion’s oppression of women

Please, please, please read Nick Kristof’s op-ed: "Religion and Women."

Links of the Day, November 30

Welcome to Advent! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend!

News

• Religious leaders around the world condemn the Swiss ban on minaret-building.

Green

• Tips for (more) eco-friendly flying this holiday season.

Miscellaneous

• Photo profiles of 47 world leaders.

Links of the Day, November 9

News

• The House health care bill passes over the weekend, 220-215!!
• Meet Anh "Joseph" Cao, the lone Republican Congressperson to vote for the bill. Here’s a statement from his official website. As reasons go, standing up for the poor and uninsured in your district is a pretty good reason for it. And the fact that he didn’t back down in the face of GOP threats is pretty admirable too. I think I like Rep. Cao.
• Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
• Floods hit El Salvador, killing at least 124 people.

Politics

• Only 1% of Americans are millionaires, but 44% of Congress fall into that category. Foolocracy lists the richest 25 Members of Congress.

Green

• Medina, the second holiest city in Islam, is going green.

Miscellaneous

• Thanks to Liz for this:
  
• London in 1927:

Links of the Day, October 8

News

• A bomb hits the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan.
• The Nobel Prize in literature goes to Herta Mueller.
• Pew reports that one in four is Muslim.
• US legal pot growers cut into Mexican traffickers’ profits.

Health care

• The President finds support from outside the party and outside the Beltway: Schwarzenegger, Thompson, Gephardt, Bloomberg, Dole.
• Nick Kristof: "If health care reform doesn’t get passed, how about we let Congress go without insurance?"
• According to the CBO, the Baucus bill will reduce the deficit.

Miscellaneous

• "Lowly females pick mediocre males" … at least in the bird world.
• Shep Smith on bacon cheese doughnut burgers being "signs of the Apocalypse." I’m wiling to go with him here and allow a little hyperbole, because those things look like death in a burger. Seriously …

Links of the Day, August 14

Happy Friday!!

News

• Hong Kong is out of the recession.

Human trafficking

• Forced prostitution on Craigslist?
• Human trafficking and Islam.
• A case featuring an American teenage girl is cracked in Florida.
• Britons can unknowingly contribute to the slave trade.

Health care

• Paul Krugman on the "Republican death trip."

Green

• Cap-and-trade? Or just a tax on carbon emissions?
• Harvard University goes solar.