49,999 Girls Gone Wild!
“Swazi females drop chastity tassels,” reported CNN on August 22, describing a warm-up event to a ritual dance of 50,000 virgins who perform bare-breasted for Swaziland’s King Mswati, who will Continue Reading →
Tag: AIDS
Arguing the ABCs of AIDS in Africa
Agreed: The Bush administration’s response to AIDS in Africa is a failure. Disputed: The reasons why. An argument with the mainstream press narrative. By Bob Smietana In a joint report Continue Reading →
Daily Links 13 June 2005
The Yenta What Schooled Her Sharlet: In a few weeks I head up to Boston to answer a few questions for WGBH, one of the flagship PBS affiliates. “What should Continue Reading →
Daily Links 21 January 2005
Rank Something, Anyway Wouldn’t you know — Richard Land is a man of the people. Or so he told NPR’s Terry Gross when she asked why he supported the war in Iraq when so Continue Reading →
Daily Links 20 December 2004
Don’t Bum to the Monks Thailand’s National Buddhism Office has proposed that Thai cigarette packs carry an additional consumer warning, that “‘Donating cigarettes to monks is a sin.’” If the Wall Ain’t Continue Reading →
Daily Links 01 December 2004
Fiddler Beneath the Gun Impaling a head on a pole and putting a cigarette in his mouth? That was pretty bad. Audio tape of “an Israeli officer pumping the body Continue Reading →
Daily Links October 14 2004
Which Side Are You On? Two recent Revealer items are driving a lot of conservative readers to The Revealer. They’re angry with what they consider bias. One item links readers to a piece Continue Reading →
Daily Links October 14 2004
Which Side Are You On? Two recent Revealer items are driving a lot of conservative readers to The Revealer. They’re angry with what they consider bias. One item links readers to a piece Continue Reading →
22 July 2004 Daily Links
You can’t expect to find nuanced discussion of the role of religion in the lefty Nation, but occasionally you will find facts that’ll help you understand the big religion stories of Continue Reading →
Silence = ?
Ever since Bono showed pal Jesse Helms the light (or not), the formerly firebreathing senator has been on a crusade against AIDS. His conversion was nothing if not timely — these days, Christian conservatives are claiming the fight against Continue Reading →