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gwydion* Things look to be escalating between Israel and Hamas.
* The UN Human Rights Commission is looking into Detroit cutting water to people so poor they can't afford to pay 20% of their income for water. BTW, the Republican governor who ordered this decided cutting off water people to live to survive while letting big businesses and the stadium skae without paying. Gov. Rick Scott wants to remind you that corporations are people so need water, but humans, not being people, don't.
* 30 people were found suffocated in a people smuggling fishing boat containing 600 fleeing North Africa to Italy.
* I haven't the emotional energy to write sensibly about events in Nigeria, Iraq, Egypt, and Pakistan, what with helping friends move. Apologies.
* "Is Pakistan 'obsessed' with fair skin?:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-27873464
* This just in: facebook is evil. In other news, rain is still wet and bears are still shitting in the woods.
* "It's Not Just Hobby Lobby: These 71 Companies Don't Want to Cover Your Birth Control Either:" http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/hobby-lobby-sebelius-contraceptive-for-profit-lawsuits
* Long time readers have heard me say this one way or another dozens of times. I'm linking it anyway. Greenwick found. "The Problem With Juliet:" http://silviamoreno-garcia.com/blog/2014/06/the-problem-with-juliet/
* Btw, you know those royal weddings between children you read about in Medieval or Early Modern histories? Those are legally betrothals, though they are celebrated like weddings. Such "marriages" could be broken without an annulment by either family and the children themselves had to affirm or disavow the marriage when they reached 14 (male) or 12 (female). The thing is that 8 year old bride groom with the 5 year old wife isn't consummating that. Odds are a fourteen year old bridegroom isn't consummating that either. These were marriages intending to cement political or military alliances or land transfers. Sometimes they were a form of hostage taking or a way to get an endangered young royal out of the country during a dynastic struggle. Yes, the marriages where the alliance and both participants survived to the mid-to-late teens get consummated, but a lot of times, they were broken off or the high mortality rate for the very young ended things.
* "45 Years Later...:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/06/45-years-later.html
* The UN Human Rights Commission is looking into Detroit cutting water to people so poor they can't afford to pay 20% of their income for water. BTW, the Republican governor who ordered this decided cutting off water people to live to survive while letting big businesses and the stadium skae without paying. Gov. Rick Scott wants to remind you that corporations are people so need water, but humans, not being people, don't.
* 30 people were found suffocated in a people smuggling fishing boat containing 600 fleeing North Africa to Italy.
* I haven't the emotional energy to write sensibly about events in Nigeria, Iraq, Egypt, and Pakistan, what with helping friends move. Apologies.
* "Is Pakistan 'obsessed' with fair skin?:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-27873464
* This just in: facebook is evil. In other news, rain is still wet and bears are still shitting in the woods.
* "It's Not Just Hobby Lobby: These 71 Companies Don't Want to Cover Your Birth Control Either:" http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/hobby-lobby-sebelius-contraceptive-for-profit-lawsuits
* Long time readers have heard me say this one way or another dozens of times. I'm linking it anyway. Greenwick found. "The Problem With Juliet:" http://silviamoreno-garcia.com/blog/2014/06/the-problem-with-juliet/
* Btw, you know those royal weddings between children you read about in Medieval or Early Modern histories? Those are legally betrothals, though they are celebrated like weddings. Such "marriages" could be broken without an annulment by either family and the children themselves had to affirm or disavow the marriage when they reached 14 (male) or 12 (female). The thing is that 8 year old bride groom with the 5 year old wife isn't consummating that. Odds are a fourteen year old bridegroom isn't consummating that either. These were marriages intending to cement political or military alliances or land transfers. Sometimes they were a form of hostage taking or a way to get an endangered young royal out of the country during a dynastic struggle. Yes, the marriages where the alliance and both participants survived to the mid-to-late teens get consummated, but a lot of times, they were broken off or the high mortality rate for the very young ended things.
* "45 Years Later...:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/06/45-years-later.html