Eliminating Violence Against Women

“Some 70 percent of women experience in their lifetime some form of physical or sexual violence from men – the majority from husbands, intimate partners or someone they know.”– Ban Ki-moon.

Check out the blog I co-wrote with Rose Berger over at God’s Politics: “Uniting to Eliminate Violence against Women.”

Links of the Day, November 25

Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

• Eugene Cho blogs; warning: some disturbing images.

News

• The first state dinner: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
  
• Google refuses to take down a racist image of Michelle Obama from its search results. I find it interesting that we (in the US) often defend freedom of speech even when it rolls into abuse/misuse of this freedom.
• On Deadly Viper: An open letter from Sojourners to Zondervan.

Green

• Climate policies improve health.

Miscellaneous

• Cathay Pacific has toilet problems.

Links of the Day, October 21

Go buy this t-shirt:

Or just follow the advice found thereupon.

News

• A nuclear fuel agreement is reached in Iran.
• Human Rights Watch says dozens of ethnic Uighurs have disappeared since being detained after riots in China.
• The really, really smart people at Apple release a brand new iMac, complete with the really, really pretty Magic Mouse (below). They really know how to make attractive products over there.
  

Health care

• According to CBO estimates, the House’s desired bill–which includes a public option, hurray!–will cost $871 billion, and will cut the deficit.

Green

• Conservative values to achieve liberal goals?

Miscellaneous

• Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt get climate change wrong.
• Marginal Revolution points out some successful government bureacracies.
• Illustrator Marc Johns’ "If Paper Towels Could Talk." Hilarious.
• If you don’t like reading about giant spiders, don’t click on this link.

Links of the Day, October 15

News

• The UN’s annual report on global food security confirms that more than one billion people–a sixth of the world’s population–are undernourished.
• Rep. John Boehner, the House GOP Leader, opposes hate crimes protections for gays. His reasoning is … let’s just say, stupid.
• The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in as little as 10 years.

Immigration

• Thousands rally for pro-immigrant immigration reform.
• Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, thumbs his nose at the federal government.

Links of the Day, September 25

Ho. ly. Smokes. Enjoy this Michael Jackson tribute:

News

• The UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution calling for nuclear disarmament, proposed by President Obama.
• Here’s Barack’s speech to the General Assembly:
• On the trilateral meeting: Obama, Netanyahu and Abbas:

Green

• Don’t turn your nose up at the little things: waste reduction and recycling can cut CO2 output by 354 million tons a year.
• This kid, William Kamkwamba, is pretty amazing: from DIY windmills to DIY water well drills.

Links of the Day, September 23

For those who love The Office, enjoy the timeless wisdom of Dwight Shrute.

News

• The President will address the UN General Assembly for the first time. Among the issues he’ll be addressing, nuclear non-proliferation.
• A shoot-out at the US-Mexican border between US agents and suspected human traffickers shuts down the crossing.
• More fires in California.
• Geithner will press Congress on finance reform.
• A staggering 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.